Highlanders Poems

Premium MemberGhost of Culloden

...Weekend away in medieval castle
Traveling to Scotland on overnight train
Read the account of Culloden battle
Highlanders lost cherished domain.

Eyes feeling heavy am swept away
living ...
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Categories: highlanders, grave, history,
Form: Rhyme

The Boy At Ticonderoga, Part Ii

......Duncan’s unit, the 42nd,
was placed in the center of the mass,
the French would crumble quick, he reckoned,
when the lines started marching at last,
not knowing that no orders had come,
yet o...
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Categories: highlanders, america, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Epic


The Boy At Ticonderoga, Part I

...Duncan was a young British soldier,
new recruit at fifteen years of age,
a good lad who followed his orders,
he was a fifer who liked to play,
his tunes directed men in the field,
the Blackwatch...
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Categories: highlanders, america, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Epic

A Gift Worth More Than Gold

...She was enrapt by the glow and mesmerized
by what appeared to be some sort of orb,
bright faceted amber that was crystallized.
She struggled to comprehend and to absorb
the meaning of such a gild...
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Categories: highlanders, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLoch Ness

...LOCH NESS 



Nestled in rugged lap of Scottish highlands
A sprawling lake, the Loch Ness, swerves
In blue hills of old metamorphic rock bands
Lost glacier melt of...
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Categories: highlanders, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Rhyme


Culloden Revisited

...Heathen warriors dressed in the plaid
Victims of time and an evil brigade
Pursue their beliefs far into the South
Gaelic words from a Jacobite mouth

Like bairns against many a gun
The highland...
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Categories: highlanders, fantasy, history,
Form: Rhyme

The Seals of Ragnarok, Part Ii

...Odin looked confused, and Thor did too,
But none of us bothered to wait
Ten thousands years of warrior souls,
Charged the dark foe right out of the gate.
My boys they shot out Fenris’s eyes,
And...
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Categories: highlanders, adventure, crazy, fate, fun,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberTo the Last

...Clan Stewart of Appin,
Clan MacGillvray too,
Fell at Culloden,
In the blood and dew.
They fell two by two, and then ten by ten,
Until twelve hundred dead, not sixty minutes in.
...At Culloden
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Categories: highlanders, adventure, father son, history,
Form: Rhyme

Remembering Wales

...The aromas of luxurious greens adorned the ruin

And wandering up the stairs had intense feelings

Chills and goosebumps and Erector Pelli presented

The closer the emerging, the more intuition...
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Categories: highlanders, history, remember, summer,
Form: Free verse

Daffodils, Thistles and Clover

...pessimists say weed, highlanders say emblem,
summit of strength, protected by spikelet's and hardiness,
bewitching and captivating flower, irresistible to man and deity.
armed stem defends and suppor...
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Categories: highlanders, patriotic, daffodils,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMaiden of the Glens

...Amidst scented Glens
Afore me in postured pose
Breathtakingly she
Allures this Highlanders eyes
Her beauty personified









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Categories: highlanders, love
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberWhen Skies of Cobalt Blue - Act 2

...Images now received by satellite
Show spaceships similar to here
In Tunguska, deepest Russia
The largest seems to appear

Near the Kingdom of Scourie, Scotland
From the Minch it slowly arose
T...
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Categories: highlanders, fantasy
Form: Quatrain

Harry the Breaker

...HARRY THE BREAKER
Harry galloped through the Mulga           (13% protien animal tucker)
On a game horse Bunga Din
The Brumbies galloping on Tolga
Were yarded with a grin
Every station had a wel...
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Categories: highlanders, warbody, me,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberI Am For What I Am

...Since the day that I first left
Looking back,
Through different windows
Knowing there will be reft

I am for what I am, and I'll be

I am for what I am, you'll see

I found it hard to explai...
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Categories: highlanders, fantasy, hope, people, places,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberMy Home

...Welcome to my home for this is where I'll stay
It's where I was born, and where I'll end my days

It rests on the banks, of the Caledonian Canal
Surrounded by it's Highland beauty, in typical ent...
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Categories: highlanders, history, inspirational, nature, people,
Form: Couplet

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