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Highlands Poems - Poems about Highlands

Premium Member The Mighty Quinn in the Highlands on Maggie's Farm in an Idiot Wind
The Mighty Quinn in the Highlands on Maggie's Farm in an Idiot Wind What He Didn't Say About Being Famous: "Just Like The Rest, I Like My Sugar Sweet." When Quinn The Inuit Gets Here, We're All Gonna Hafta' Eat. I "Feel Like A Prisoner In A World Of Mystery." A Pretty...

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Categories: highlands, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Everything and no one
I gaze at the Highlands’ mountains and try to force myself to feel joy in its entirety. But I can’t. Look how beautifully the sun plays on the rocks like its pressing keys: white for light, black for darkness. And who am I? Darkness, light? Half-shadow? Twilight? I am a cloud....

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Categories: highlands, analogy, mountains, travel, war,
Form: Free verse



Tayaw: the Flying Bird Dance of Native Highlands
Like a flying bird they swayed To the flow of a beating gong Like two little kids that played To the sound of a native song All the others came to dance Flock of birds; flew high and low They soared together, all at once They all let their feelings flow May 10, 2023...

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Categories: highlands, bird, flying,
Form: Rhyme
A Scotsman In the Heather, Wearing Heather Yarns Under Heather Skies Meeting, Someone
A Scotsman voyaged through the highlands Thickly covered with lush, purple heather Kilt adorned and bare, his regions nether Feeling breezy on this, a grand endeavor He trekked across enjoying balmy weather Heather gray sky and ben blend together Through the loch did wet his boots of leather The effort causing removal of his sweater Warm with heather yarns the colours speckle He laid...

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Categories: highlands, silly, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Sunset On the Spey
Watching the ripples of the clear water of the Spey Setting sun lighting field and trees of the strath Salmon jumping clear to catch a fly A sob as water runs from my eye. Doon tae the firth o moray runs the water Taking my thochts and dreams far away Ne,er again tae be born a new Loast forever in the melee...

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Categories: highlands, angst, change, cry, farewell,
Form: Free verse



Scottish Wildcats
Scottish Wildcats are listed as, critically endangered Once found throughout Britain, now only found in northwest Scotland living in wooded areas, near the edges of forests and shrublands and the Scottish Wildcat is a subspecies, of the European Wildcat Domestic cats pose a great threat, for these Scottish Wildcats as there are very few genetically pure populations left,...

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Categories: highlands, animal, beautiful, earth, education,
Form: Rhyme
Glen Nevis--Lochaber, Scotland
Majestic, barren, rock-cropped braes ascend— Arrayed, green-clad, in heather, gorse, and fern— As mid-day, misty, dark’ning clouds descend To cold-embrace each soaring tor and burn. From heights unseen a torrent cascades free, Unfettered into deep Ben Nevis’ glen; Then onwards toward Loch Linnhe and the sea, Through sodden bog and brackened, stone-strewn fen. Though hidden from the eyes of those below, Ben Nevis’ surly...

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Categories: highlands, beauty, god, mountains, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Where Once Verdant Rolling Highlands
Where once verdant rolling highlands... Spanned into infinite vista far as these myopic eyes can see now yellowing Whitmanesque leaves of grass encompass field of vision. Nary a dark dreadnaught cloud in sight, nor unbeknownst if/when threatening storm looms on horizon slaking parched land delivering precipitation quenching thirsty terra firma. I too experience vicarious dehydration during bonafide dry spell constituting theoretical string hoop fully curtails weather beaten flora...

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Categories: highlands, 12th grade, absence, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haunted Highlands
Deep within the highland mists, white heather, bright adorning, I last beheld those flaring eyes, though tender as the borning. I'd gone a-hiking, early snow, 'midst headland slopes and fells - Their lullabies e'er sang to me - far flung from towns and dells. She haunted castle ruins...

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Categories: highlands, fantasy, passion, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
In Awe
I will lift up my eyes to the highlands; the moon and the stars far beyond; bathe in wonders before me- delight in holy humility....

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Categories: highlands, moon, stars,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Horse of the Highlands
Lost was I amidst the Scottish highlands The evening sky was blushing heaven-kissed Hilltops pierced the dusky fog like islands As soft a horse came swimming thru the...

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Categories: highlands, animal, horse, mystery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Call of the Highlands
The Call of the Highlands Oh I'd love a day out in the heather, With a ghillie a gun and a stick, I'd stalk 'cross the moors, crawl about on all fours All the way from Fort William to Wick. Oh I'd love to catch fish in the river, Cast my line, it's no problem you see, For the fish that I...

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Categories: highlands, humor,
Form: Verse
Weather of Highlands
charcoal clouds bring curtain of rain - rainbow...

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Categories: highlands, nature, weather,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Bonnie Highlands
In carpeted show -~- Purpled heathers radiate -~~- Picturesque glens bloom -~~~-...

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Categories: highlands, inspirational, nature, places
Form: Haiku
Highlands
Lush green in graceful silence misty layers let nature dream through hills where rivers flow...

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Categories: highlands, nature
Form: Haiku

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