Long Scotland Poems
Long Scotland Poems. Below are the most popular long Scotland by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Scotland poems by poem length and keyword.
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar TranslationSweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that...
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Categories:
scotland, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
No Tip Neccesary - Both Audio and TextThese two old geezers have definitely worn out their welcome with Betty-Joe -
“NO, IT DOESN’T!”
“YES, IT DOES!”
“NO, IT DOESN’T!”
“YES, IT DOES!” The two old geezers argued...
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Categories:
scotland, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tall TaleI must say Peter, I've had the most extraordinary day. It all started when I woke up this morning. I was brushing my teeth with this new toothpaste Pepsibrite and literally after just a few...
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Categories:
scotland, fantasy, fishing,
Form:
Prose
The LetterThe Letter
A young man strolled along the waterfront,
His mind and heart at ease.
Said an old man, sitting on an upturned punt,
Gazing out towards the sea.
“Come...
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Categories:
scotland, boy, happiness, irony, loneliness, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Mango Epulaeryu PoemEpulaeryu Mango Poetry Season
Greetings my dear brothers and sister of God's inspirational grace, and I pray each of you will defeat Covid-19 and its elusive Delta and Omicron variants, and live a most gracious life...
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Categories:
scotland, appreciation, celebration, fruit, joy, passion, thanksgiving, uplifting,
Form:
Epulaeryu
Travel PlansA nice cruise from New York, I thought
From down by Pier two-one
I thought I'd head to England
For a good old spot of fun
An Ocean trip, some nice fresh air
Eleven days at sea
I thought this would...
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Categories:
scotland, 7th grade, surreal, travel,
Form:
Light Verse
Long Ago, Memories of a Cold Winter Night ConversationLong Ago, Memories Of A Cold Winter Night Conversation
(Narrative/Rhyme)
Hebridean isles, once sang to me in a dream,
She her beautiful hair silky, so very long
There rests magnificent treasure few ever find
A good poet would use it...
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Categories:
scotland, art, best friend, imagination, lonely, solitude, winter,
Form:
Narrative
William Dunbar: Lament For the Makaris TranslationLament for the Makaris ("Lament for the Makers/Poets")
by William Dunbar [c. 1460-1530]
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
i who enjoyed good health and gladness
am overwhelmed now by life’s terrible sickness
and enfeebled with infirmity ...
how the...
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Categories:
scotland, death, evil, fear, poets, sorrow, sympathy, writing,
Form:
Elegy
A New Queen Is BornI stood at the back of the line and watched nature unfold in front of my weeping eyes. I stood at the back of the line watching them moving in droves from every corner of...
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Categories:
scotland, care, celebration, change, death, environment, future, leadership,
Form:
Narrative
Stranger Than Fiction Part 1My name is Tom Cunningham, I’m retired now but thirty six years ago I had a very strange experience that I have never mentioned to anyone until now.
It was November the seventh, nineteen eighty six,...
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Categories:
scotland, religious, scary, world war ii,
Form:
Prose
Robert Burns Translation: To a MouseTo a Mouse
by Robert Burns
translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Sleek, tiny, timorous, cowering beast,
Why’s such panic in your breast?
Why dash away, so quick, so rash,
In a frenzied flash
When I would be loath to run after you
With...
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Categories:
scotland, animal, farm, home, house, life, nature, sympathy,
Form:
Verse
MemoirsAlthough born in Scotland I have no memories of there as we left when I was two.
My first recollections are of Las Palmos in the Canaries.
I recall the donkey passing daily and being told he...
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Categories:
scotland, adventure, africa, life, places, voyage, mum,
Form:
Bio
The Sage of Glasgow ~ I - I Arrive in Glasgow ~
When I arrived in Glasgow town
I knew nary a soul
So tired I's nearly fallin' down
Yet I'd no place to go
I wandered up Buchanan street
In hopes...
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Categories:
scotland, friendship, travel, wisdom,
Form:
Lyric
Confused I And Stressed In Londonis everyone from Barking Barking mad?
Does everyone In Lambeth do the Lambeth walk?
Is Leicester Square In Leicester?
Is The Elephant And Castle a place where they hide Elephants?
Is Oxford Street in Oxford?
And Paddington a bear?
Highgate...
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Categories:
scotland, city, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Recollections From the Golden Cree IiiBrackish-gurgling days that
Unobtrusively slid along
Past tussock grass and curled up
Balls of Fern...
Glued tightly onto structured vanes
Of outstretched frond.
Venerable Mosses reciting epic tales,
Measured throughout Metronomical
Strains,
Chanting methodically in harmonious
Downturn -
Wherein contained:
Foreboding dialects delivered...
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Categories:
scotland, growing up, , western,
Form:
Rhyme
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised April 19th, 2023Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised April 19th, 2023
IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic, holistic, and cathartic
warming me body electric
courtesy an outsize
warm brimful...
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Categories:
scotland, absence, adventure, april, farewell, fate, heartbroken, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Dual HeritageI am a descendant of Greece and the
Greeks,
We say hello and goodbye by kissing
Both cheeks,
But I also descend from the British,
For my father was very, very English!
I am a true mix of English
And Greek,
And...
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Categories:
scotland, life, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Lost In Britain and NEW!! Lost In The USA
LOST IN BRITAIN
Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop,
Matching Tye and Droop
Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown,
Westward Ho! and Throop.
Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghead, Frome, Cat's Ash
North Piddle, Staines and Pen*stone,
Wash Dyke, East Breast and Flash.
Six Mile Bottom, Mudford...
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Categories:
scotland, america, england, humor, humorous, london, places, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024...
(Any resemblance between the following humorous account and real life circumstance tis purely coincidental).
Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager...
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Categories:
scotland, absence, adventure, confusion, humorous, march, missing,
Form:
Rhyme
Anglo-Norman Arisingthe wealth of norman England is poised to grow
towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
old and new empires jostle, reshaping across continents and...
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Categories:
scotland, england, history, identity, immigration, language, people, social,
Form:
Narrative
If At First You Don'T Succeed - Text VersionTommy Tapioca’d married Margery Anne McDonald when each of them was twenty-one with just one thing in mind:
To save the only offspring of the richest man in Scotland from falling prey to what he deemed...
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Categories:
scotland, humor,
Form:
Narrative
If At First You Don'T SucceedTommy Tapioca’d married Margery Anne McDonald when each of them was twenty-one with just one thing in mind:
To save the only offspring of the richest man in Scotland from falling prey to what he deemed...
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Categories:
scotland, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Old Man Moses - Scotland RisesOLD MAN MOSES - SCOTLAND RISES
Old man Moses sat upon his rock; contemplating, his woes
Moses ails but a vision of a land to his sons and daughters
Born not to settle for their history as more...
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Categories:
scotland, beautiful, history, jewish, meaningful, perspective, symbolism, tribute,
Form:
Pantoum
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised March 10th, 2022Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2022...
Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager in Nigg
(historic county of Ross-shire,
historic region of Ross
and Cromarty, northeast
coast of Scotland).
Somehow postiche...
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Categories:
scotland, absence, america, appreciation, beauty, character, england, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
England - Gleaming In the Distanceacross the Doggerland dogged people trudge
Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
the mighty maw of an ice wall crunches, enforcing southward retreat
remoulding the...
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Categories:
scotland, conflict, destiny, england, history, humanity, immigration, perspective,
Form:
Narrative