Long Shetland Poems

The Spaniel

A Spaniel that uses its head 
Can tell when its owner’s unfed 
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck 
Will deliver a pizza instead
 
The Afghan Hound

The Afghan’s a dog groomer’s...

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The Rottweiler

I wouldn’t provoke a Rottweiler
Not unless I were prepped like a miler
Seems a little inbreeding
Done without heeding
Has turned Benji into a Sieg Heiler

The Saint Bernard

Though not in his nature to beg
He would flip for...

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Hidden under crop circle
resembling an ampersand
hides sheathed silo - obscured,
said symbol adorned every armband
of national socialist, yet weapons

of mass destruction) bland
lee, blatantly ignored global pact
prepared from this once (bajillion
years ago) geologic bottomland
repurposed for a bomb...

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I see no Knight in shining armour
On his trusty steed
I can't see the local farmer or man of any
Colour or creed

Who would want a valentine like me
No man with any sense
Who would date a woman
Who's...

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Heading east on 16th Street
where the road becomes a “T”
it’s the last house on the south side
that means so much to me.

Pine shrubbery up to the windows
giant cottonwoods stand guard
an arch above the driveway
an eighteen...

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start writing-she said
   as if she knew 
  about the contents
               of her head
    ...

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I woke my daughter up this morning
She sat up and I said, "Good morning, sugar."
She looked at me and said, "A monkey's uncle."
What's that kid dreaming about, anyway?

Our dishwasher went out
So I told my wife...

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If those who brought from the East black gold 
   	had listened to the forecast,
they’d have set a different course and saved 
   	the innocent from slaughter.
But no! Shepherds on Shetland...

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A speck drifts in the wind blown hither and tither,
Briefly settling then takes to the air once more.
Now a charged particle thanks to the storm,
It flitters around like a beautiful butterfly.

Travelling the world at the...

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When i close my eyes
To follow Scotland's coast
I am so undecided
To which part i love the most

From the Shetland Isles
To the Borders so green
These vistas of miles
Really have to be seen

The Isle of Arran
And the...

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Here Is My Mare Horn Haiku

Gilding is a Neutered Male
Yearling and Colt and Philly
Mustang Male or Female
Thoroughbred 16 Hands High
Wither
Pinto
Appaloosa
Feral Horse
Quarter Horse
Hobbled
Spayed mare
Pony
Shetland
Chincoteague
Assateague
 

called spayed horse a...

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Tavish Macbain had a funeral pyre that amazed most of Shetland Isle
You could see the burial ship burning for a solid Viking mile.
His days of valor were behind him, he had shown the enemy a...

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