Long Doon Poems
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Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans Translation
Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
doon, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
The Spirits of Culloden
The Spirits of Culloden.
This is like a pilgrimage, a try tae come every year,
Gather at the cairn, meet old friends, wipe away a tear.
Standin on that moor, that once with blood was sodden,
Paying respects...
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Categories:
doon, anniversary, death, dedication, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
BROKEN DOWN ANGELS
BROKEN DOWN ANGELS
It disny seem that long ago
Toddling and having fun,
Crawling then walking along the floor
And learning how tae run.
Potty trained and full eh life
They’d run you af yer feet,
A kiss on the cheek...
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Categories:
doon, abuse, addiction, dark, drug, family, health, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
TWA HAIRY DUGS
TWA HAIRY DUGS
Twa hairy dugs
Walking doon the street,
Raking in the buckets
Tae find a bite tae eat.
Licking oot a puddle
Tae git a nice cool drink,
Survival on the streets alone
They really have tae think.
Sleeping on a...
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Categories:
doon, animal, care, cute love, dog, happiness, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Robert Burns Translation: Banks O' Doon
Banks o' Doon
by Robert Burns
modern English translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, banks and hills of lovely Doon,
How can you bloom so fresh and fair;
How can you chant, ecstatic birds,
When I'm so weary, full of care!
You'll...
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Categories:
doon, bird, love, river, romance, romantic, rose, song,
Form:
Verse
The Night Rabbie Visited Me
THE 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:
doon, fantasy,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Robert Burns Translations
A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, my love is like a red, red rose
that's newly sprung in June
and my love is like the melody
that's sweetly played in tune.
And...
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Categories:
doon, red, river, romance, romantic, romantic love, rose,
Form:
Verse
Devonshire Tea Fur Fower
Devonshire tea with Peter an' Beryl, beware,
it's no the fact that Peter disnae care.
But 88 years doon the track o' life,
an' 84 years fur Beryl, Peter's carefree wife.
Ma Bonny wife Gillian an' this Auld Yin,
oot...
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Categories:
doon, natural disasters, me,
Form:
Quatrain
Jacks
Ah had a aulder bruther whin ah wis wee,
ah wis five then an' he -wis nine yea see.
A tendid tae follow him aboot,
bit bein' aulder he widnae care a hoot.
Aw jings a remember wan day...
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Categories:
doon, dedication, me, day, me,
Form:
Quatrain
Marie of Ecosse
Sound of a song softly sung rose in the air and through windows
Barred to let air and light in and little else.
A lament sung in Gaelic tongue foreign to ears used to French,
But its meaning...
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Categories:
doon, abuse, anger, conflict, fear, french, nostalgia, words,
Form:
Ballad
Trimdon Grange Explosion
TRIMDON GRANGE EXPLOSION *
( 16 FEB 1882, DURHAM, ENGLAND )
Noo March is heor and the wind she’s cowld *
But the sixty nine sowls divvent feel it ...
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Categories:
doon, death, history,
Form:
Verse
Imagination
'Imagine'. Life's wurth without, 'imagination',
could we iver contemplate creation?
A gif' to have in oor ain mind's een,
without it, nuthin' wundrous wid be iver seen.
Rabbie."O wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as...
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Categories:
doon, imagination, imagination, life, power,
Form:
Quatrain
Old Wheelbarrow
Note
(Try to put your best Scottish accent on when reading this one)
Disguarded fae the workplace, rusted red distorted frame.
Mangled handles reachin' oot like a wee disguarded bairn.
Were ye pushed aroon' a factory,heavin' loads or liftin'...
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Categories:
doon, lifelife, life,
Form:
Rhyme
'me', Full Circle
A luv ma life sae full o' joy,
I keep ma interests at full employ.
Each day fur me is sic' delight,
every day, aw' day an' ivery night.
I go tae bed an' lay doon ma heid,
aye richt...
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Categories:
doon, life, happy, beautiful, autumn, beautiful, day, happy,
Form:
Quatrain
Tae a Mouse
Tae A Mouse
(Whit wid Robert Burns say!)
Ha’ where ye gon ye cowrin feartie
Your impudence protects you sairly
I canna say but ye strut...
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Categories:
doon, celebration, creation, funny, humorous,
Form:
Lyric
A Top a Highland Hill
A Top A Highland Hill
A top a windswept highland hill above Locheil land
Clansmen gathered roun and shook the princes haun
They raised the standard high cheered till they were hoarse
Followed the flying heron across the highland...
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Categories:
doon, allegory, cry,
Form:
Ballad
The Bandit Kings! (A Golf Poem)
Written in Scottish dialect.
Jack, Bernard and John, the Bandit Kings,
Hae handicaps wae too high.
Each o’ them score four points a hole,
Ah canna tell ye a lie!
Me, ah’m Rabbie, the bard o’ the course;
Ah’m lucky tae...
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Categories:
doon, friendship, funny, sports
Form:
Verse
The Ballad of Clan Mac Aroon
THE BALLAD OF CLAN MAC AROON
Listen ye now to a story
The history of Clan Mac Aroon
Tis a tale to set brave hearts a tremble
And cause many a faint heart to swoon
...
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Categories:
doon,
Form:
I do not know?
Rise Again
Tak oor grund from beneath oor hurdies
Burn oor birches aside the lough,
Besmirch hard fecht fur freedom,
Dictating oor days tae come,
No from the pint o a gun,
Fae laws an promises ...
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Categories:
doon, anger, conflict, freedom, heartbreak, history,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Upon Your Shore
Ma boatie sailed ower the mist covered sea,
I searched an sought for your hidden shore,
Shrouded in mist frae ma searching eye.
You left in a red mist o yer makin,
Stormin aff afore ah could stoap yer...
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Categories:
doon, boat, confusion, girlfriend, lost love, miss you,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
For you, I shall
For your sake, this heart that isn't even close to me, I shall make it yours.
If you come and reside within me, I shall turn that very heart into a temple.
Weaving...
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Categories:
doon, hindi,
Form:
Free verse
Racial Memories
tome in this orkney beachstead
Warm in the touch of rotting tip heat
splitskinning addies onto top cook rock
smart eyes closed to stinking smoke
feet still wet from tidepool trapsets
Wondering when will weather break
tothers snore beneath the...
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Categories:
doon, history, life, social, dream, summer, dream, summer,
Form:
Bio
Tight Wad
TIGHT WAD
Yer cannie, as cannie be.
Nae sloutch, or frivolous, spend-thrift, ye.
Whose coin, to feered to leave the purse,
-in-case it’s ye’sd tae quench the thirst.
O, the ither, who just stood ye one.
Now sitting empty as a...
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Categories:
doon, assonance,
Form:
Rhyme
Glesca Weans
Grouin up in Glesga wis nae mean feat
Pleyin in the back courts an dreepin the wass
Plouterin in puddles manky water sploshing aboot,
Searching in yon mucky middens fur treasure
Thrown oot by the families in the closes.
Fur...
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Categories:
doon, character, childhood, children, clothes, father, fear,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Bonnie Scotland
scotland poem
bonnie scotlands the place to be,
whar awe yae ever may want tae be,
fae glens n lochs and water to
lookin arood scotland whor thars a bonnie view,
whar the lads may wear thar kilts
whar the wumin...
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Categories:
doon, upliftingwater, may, sun, water,
Form:
I do not know?