Long J r firth Poems

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On the hill betwixt Carlisle and Deep Creek
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Nine years a stranger in a strange land
            travelling to my island in the sun.
A native son returning a native strand
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On the 11th May 1685 in the west of Scotland in a small coastal village called wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway the covenanters were sought to swear allegiance and acknowledge King James as head of...

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Under the colorful leaves 
Of my Poet-tree
The Autumn breeze
Blows one off and it spirals slowly
Down for me To read

I pick it up off the ground
And looking around
I hear no sound
On a big mushroom I sit...

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With canoe and hook of a jawbone
  below a great fish Maui snared,
and his brothers half-crazed behaving
  leapt and gouged in frenzy craving.
From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga 
 (departing place of the...

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Did i a) release a co-written novel
----------------with a guy who promised his sister and created a book of own poetry
-------2) sat beside my son and heard him giggle
-------W)hat is going with his let hers and...

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L.A ‘62. English professor George (Colin Firth) is mourning the loss of his gay partner. He's 
spent the day reliving memories, but that night meets his student Kenny (Nicholas Hoult), 
who secretly admires him, in...

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There once was a man from Duluth
whose habit was spinning the truth.
He had told the same tale
(every day without fail;
'twas getting quite long in the tooth).

He sat down to drink in a booth
then ordered a...

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A bit I have travelled, in the cities of this world
Each with a history – a tale that can be told
Through the lens of the roving tourist’s eye
Who often does, with some wonder, sigh

As an...

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(Aborted attempt to mend fences, -
which version overly pedantic for
her minimal leisure/down time as
full time student at University.)
no...no...no...this tree
mend dose electronic
     endeavor of mine, ya see
NOT predicated on

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A Lincolnshire lass was she
        in youth and bloom revealing,
and upon us all God smiled
when unto this world a child
       was born...

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Line of enquiry :

"God within me is the enjoyer of the aroma,
As also this dopamine boosting flavour I taste.
I surrender all pleasures to the dweller of my heart.
Breath by breath thus that my soul presence...

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Walk through life with mirth
Laughing, loving, liberating friends and foes
Daring to enliven them as from my favourite firth
I breaststroke ashore and send a rose

To signify my noble intention
Meant to fulfill a wish 
I made to...

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Ole!  Toward the elastic rubber man;
Changed composition cosmic rays, and;
Smarter than a whip you actions, stretches forth and;
Cosmically you have changed;
Your anatomic anatomy rearranged;

Yo! Youth, young and impatient, hot headed;
Torch even kiln against all...

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Sometimes my thoughts wander when I'm sitting still
or a vague notion crosses my mind, giving me a chill
I soak up weird ideas like a sprout absorbs April rain
I'm not averse to anything filtering through my...

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From Scrabster harbour we set
Sea fishing we go
Off Dunnett Head
Dinghy in tow
 
A few hours we sail
To reach the spot
To hunt our catch
Check my lobster pots
 
This Pentland firth 
Flowing blue and fresh
With our deep...

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A   LITTLE   MEMORY
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'How Great thou Art,'
Originally a poem by Carl Boberg, 
adapted to lyrics. 

"O mighty God, when I behold the wonder of nature's beauty, wrought by words of thine, and how thou leadest all from realms...

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Awa' oan the Firth of Forth, 
high oan the famous brig', 
a laboring lad toils tirelessly 
in the cauld and bitter wind.

Awa' aff the river shore, 
a braw lassie waits for him, 
scourin' and roastin'...

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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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Bethany swum for Ireland in London’s Paras, 
Her teacher dad used to be a church minister, 
She enjoys the Christian Fellowship Church, 
And raises her hands to praise god after races. 

She has an intellectual...

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“It doesn’t matter if you’re young or old, 
male or female, able-bodied or disabled, 
we all stand with the same shooting [hold], 
beginner or experienced [to get enabled].“

Jo’s an archer who began shooting 2014,
When in...

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On holiday on Scotland's Moray Firth
spent time at SDC at Spey bay
that's the Scottish Dolphin centre
whose vision's for there safety from all prey 

Risso's Dolphins born grey seen during summer
love to eat squid identified by...

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Some way from the Firth of Forth
A shoal of glittering mackerel
Swirls and sways 
Swells with the sea from silver to black 
Flashes white and back to silver and grey

A humpback whale
Juddering its leathery jaws together
With...

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In her silk evening dress
On the harbour she stands
Looking out to the waters
That claimed her man

The sea was his life
Ever since he was a boy
To be a sailor
Was to be his pride and joy

He made...

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