Long Braes Poems
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Wildmoor SymphonyFIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)
Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings
In this bright...
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Categories:
braes, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Highland LassieInspired by the painting "Highland Lassie" (1871) by Thomas Faed.
(Verse One; In introduction to Cailin)
Walkin' on the highways, searchin' down the byways,
Tromps a lonely figure on the Highland roads;
Peerin' from the Highdown, breezin' through the...
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Categories:
braes, girl, mountains, sea, travel, wisdom, youth,
Form:
Lyric
Dedication To Alex BraesThe early hours of a Wednesday morning in a small country town.
An 18-year-old boy struggles to sleep
He had pain so bad
all he could do was weep
he, knee was so painful
he had to go...
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Categories:
braes, emotions, funeral, grief, pain, poetry, sorrow, stress,
Form:
Free verse
Auld Lang Syne the Most Sung New Years Eve Song“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song
Courtesy Robert Burns
circa (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the Ploughman Poet.
Two hundred sixty one orbitz elapsed
since brief existence of...
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Categories:
braes, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Robert Burns Translation: Auld Lang SyneAuld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?
For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed, once...
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Categories:
braes, age, drink, friend, friendship, memory, old, remember,
Form:
Verse
The Night Rabbie Visited MeTHE NIGHT THAT RABBIE VISITED ME
One night in spring I couldn't sleep I heard knocking on the door
I got out of bed, walked to the window to have...
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Categories:
braes, fantasy,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Upo' the Gilded BraeLo' beneigh' the random bield, bewails upo' the leaf
An' lea'e me naught but grief and pain, as moone breaks through the heath
Upo' the gilded braes we kissed, luve sang a zephyrs cry
Where say, my luve,...
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Categories:
braes, lost love
Form:
Sonnet
Time and PlaceTIME AND PLACE
Spring is found in the Lowland valleys with gowan-filled braes of Scotland
When the early-reaching flowers bloom in cool freshness, and
The air is bracing and always new-washed-glass clean ...
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Categories:
braes, places,
Form:
Shape
Seasonal PlacesSEASONAL PLACES
Spring is found in the Lowland valleys with gowan-filled braes of Scotland
When the early-reaching flowers bloom in cool freshness, and
The air is bracing and always new-washed-glass clean -
With the...
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Categories:
braes, adventure,
Form:
Couplet
Glen Nevis--Lochaber, ScotlandMajestic, 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...
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Categories:
braes, beauty, god, mountains, nature, snow, storm,
Form:
Sonnet
HaggisThe Haggis lives a solitary life
On mountainsides and braes
Foraging, for slugs and snails
Is how he spends his days
But come the rutting season
A change in him you’ll find
He’ll go out searching, high and low
For others of...
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Categories:
braes, animals, fantasy, children, funny
Form:
Light Verse
Beautiful and MajesticBeing a Scot I can be a little biased
but I have been here all of my days
at first hand, I've seen this land total
having walked over many banks and braes
Scotland by its occupants seem drab
tending...
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Categories:
braes, beautiful, home, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
AutumnlandYe ancient land O’ bonnie hue
A bonnie haze on lochs of black
Divide the colour, take me back
To wash my eyes with Fall, imbue
The highlands with a McCulloch hand
Take me back to Autumnland
Softly, softly toes on...
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Categories:
braes, natureme, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Comin' Hame - Coming Home -Scottish DialectA angry sky, as cauld as Loch Lomon'
fair drew me out from cot o' peat, an' bed.
The wolves wus wailin', an' thund'r respond'd
Ah gather'd tam, me tartan, an' dug Red.
To 'orse ah took an'...
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Categories:
braes, absence, culture, faith, farm,
Form:
Terza Rima
FreeAs the wind rolls cold of the mountain plain
As the Hindu Kush rises like skyscrapers to Gods name
But these are not my mountains and the wind is not the same
So as my plane takes off...
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Categories:
braes, nature, passion, people, people,
Form:
I do not know?
Spring CoronationAbove the brightening vale in sun reborn
The barrow braes are clothed as we behold
Amid green pines the gorse and broom adorn
With blossoms swathing heath in cloth of gold
Below: the tarn’s once dark and baleful...
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Categories:
braes, nature,
Form:
Sonnet