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Long Scots Poems. Below are the most popular long Scots by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Scots poems by poem length and keyword.


Premium Member Summer
“SUMMER”



Where 
has Summer 
gone?

The world 
has lost 
Summer

Sweet 
little 
dream

missing 

all those other 
beautiful  
small dreams 

seen as toys
small and 
inconsequential 

casually tossed aside, 
disposable play,
things

pure shining lights
smiling eyes once so bright, 
switched off,

'neath...

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Categories: scots, abuse, child abuse,
Form: Epic



Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar Translation
Sweet 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: scots, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form: Sonnet
The Pictish Faeries
The Pictish Faeries
by Michael R. Burch

Smaller and darker
than their closest kin,
the faeries learned only too well
never to dwell
close to the villages of larger men. 

Only to dance in the starlight
when the moon was full
and men...

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Categories: scots, fairy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part Ii
HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.

Firefighters bow heads in silent paean, 
while polished trucks stand...

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Categories: scots, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form: Sonnet
New Year's Eve 2022
New Year's Eve 2022

Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022 
sequestered (with the missus) 
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd  
entertains reckons partition of time 
into...

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Categories: scots, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Canzone Poem Form Example
Poets Collective multi-site network 
Canzone
The canzone is an Italian form with strong similarities to the sestina. There are no rhymes; instead there are five keywords that determine the structure of the poem. Every line of...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scots, poetry,
Form: Canzone
Premium Member A Song Ago
A SONG AGO

Our cousin filled a flash drive with songs
From the Fifties to date,
I would like to share some, beginning with the late,
Mr. Frank Sinatra, Frankie boy,
Still my favourite, to listen to, such joy!
‘I did...

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Categories: scots, star,
Form: Verse
New Year's Eve 2021
New Year's Eve 2021

December thirty first
two thousand twenty one countdown
will transparently and seamlessly stream into
simultaneously linkedin January first
two thousand and twenty two,
whereby the Ball a geodesic sphere,
12 feet in diameter,
and weighing 11,875 pounds.

The aforementioned Ball...

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Categories: scots, adventure, culture, dance, humanity, inspiration, new years
Form: Free verse
Robert Burns Translation: To a Mouse
To 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: scots, animal, farm, home, house, life, nature, sympathy,
Form: Verse
Great Britain In No Particular Order
In no particular order
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 
But together Great Britain

I have never been to Scotland.
Wales or Northern Ireland as well.
That’s because I’m getting old.
And I’m not well, I’m ill.
Yet what I see...

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Categories: scots, break up, courage, together, truth, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
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: scots, bird, love, river, romance, romantic, rose, song,
Form: Verse
Robert Burns Translation: Auld Lang Syne
Auld 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: scots, age, drink, friend, friendship, memory, old, remember,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Bleeding Before Rome -1
The bombers began to bleed
their heavy tears of death
from 20,000 feet above the breathless battlefield, 
B-17 Flying Fortress formations
moving with apocalyptic aplomb
the shadows of high metal crosses by the hundreds
rippling along the rugged roman earth
bringing...

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Categories: scots, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form: Epic
Comp Sci and Sci-Fi --- a Nonsensical Poem
Computer science is abbreviated as "comp sci." 
Comp sci is so hard it gives you a sigh. 
Computing is everywhere in the world of sci-fi. 
Network is so prevalent these days you can't get by...

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Categories: scots, humor, humorous, , western,
Form: Rhyme
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: scots, red, river, romance, romantic, romantic love, rose,
Form: Verse
Robert Burns Translation: Comin Thro the Rye
Comin Thro the Rye
by Robert Burns
modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
 
Oh, Jenny's all wet, poor body,
Jenny's seldom dry;
She's draggin' all her petticoats
Comin' through the rye.
 
Comin' through the rye, poor body,
Comin' through the...

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Categories: scots, body, desire, kiss, love, lust, romantic, romantic
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sawney Bean, Legend of a Cannibal - Written In Broad Scots Dialect
Thar was nae richt ae laddie sair
wha heft a cave 'side Galloway,
wi' nae jaiken he griftit dare
as he was nae tae lippen tae.

Ill-naitur'd  fishwife he haud in wi',
the twa 'greed tae gang the'gither.
She haud...

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Categories: scots, history,
Form: Quatrain
Love Aligns
Love Aligns

Of names given at birth, one blooms special. 
Mary seems to me a popular name.
Common folks and royalty likewise called.
But no two named Mary are quite the same.

A young girl named Mary lived righteously.
By...

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Categories: scots, family, history, lovefamily, woman, women, family, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member " the Life of Me " Page 1 of 2
My name is James, born 1961
In Inverness, a small Scots town
To my father Andrew, and my mother Beryl
And Billy my brother, a pair of devils
 
In 67, we woke one night
Our house was ablaze, full...

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Categories: scots, brother, childhood, death, depression, family, father, health,
Form: Rhyme
Robert Burns Translation: To a Louse
To a Louse
by Robert Burns
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hey! Where're you going, you crawling hair-fly?
Your impudence protects you, barely;
I can only say that you swagger rarely
Over gauze and lace.
Though faith! I fear you dine but...

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Categories: scots, animal, body, clothes, funny, hair, insect, society,
Form: Verse
Premium Member By Now You Have Forgot' - To Whom It May Concern - Part 1
Remember all the Wise Men on their knees upon your yacht?
With orphans on their backs they’d crawled (with others that they’d brought)
Through rubble on the highway sands and residues of Lot.
They came from severed cities...

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Categories: scots, war,
Form: Monorhyme
An Independant Scotland
AN INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND? (Or, Beware The English)
by Damian on June 15, 2014. © Damian Cranney, All rights reserved

An independent Scotland,
That will do just fine,
We no longer have to listen
To the Scots familiar line.

Whatever woe that...

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Categories: scots, england, farewell, freedom, friendship, truth,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth I

A ll things are as it may, beckons a queendom of two faiths,
B orrowed Boleyn's "B" blue brocade the better choice made,
C ancer claims the spring, agrees with the passage of her sister,
D...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scots, england,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member If I Could Talk To God - Act 1
Here i sit                                ...

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Categories: scots, hope, nature, visionaryfather, words, father,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member About Time - In King Charles Own Words
About time,
I've paid my dues I've crossed the line,
This moment I thought would never come,
Is in my grasp, the deed now done.

Don't get me wrong, I loved my Mum,
But all that passed would surely stun
Even...

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Categories: scots, appreciation, celebrity, desire, destiny, endurance, humor, leadership,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs