Long Scots Poems
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.
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 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:
scots, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
The Pictish FaeriesThe 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
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part IiHEROES
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 2022New 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
Canzone Poem Form ExamplePoets 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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Categories:
scots, poetry,
Form:
Canzone
A Song AgoA 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 2021New 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 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:
scots, animal, farm, home, house, life, nature, sympathy,
Form:
Verse
Great Britain In No Particular OrderIn 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' DoonBanks 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 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:
scots, age, drink, friend, friendship, memory, old, remember,
Form:
Verse
Bleeding Before Rome -1The 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 PoemComputer 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 TranslationsA 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 RyeComin 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
Sawney Bean, Legend of a Cannibal - Written In Broad Scots DialectThar 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 AlignsLove 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
" the Life of Me " Page 1 of 2My 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 LouseTo 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
By Now You Have Forgot' - To Whom It May Concern - Part 1Remember 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 ScotlandAN 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
Queen Elizabeth IQueen 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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Categories:
scots, england,
Form:
Abecedarian
If I Could Talk To God - Act 1Here i sit ...
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Categories:
scots, hope, nature, visionaryfather, words, father,
Form:
Free verse
About Time - In King Charles Own WordsAbout 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