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Premium Member THE WALK
THE WALK
The sun shines on Benarty
On a nice warm summers day,
The bairns have got their clothes on
And they all want out to play.

l make them all some breakfast
And the kids all eat their fill,
Then I...

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Categories: walter scott, beauty, feelings, growing up, happy, identity,
Form: Rhyme



To Be Black Is a Crime In America
Gunshots and tasers aimed at the back
tracking the movements and memories
of unsuspecting dark-skinned citizens 
marked by the scars of a history denied

For Rumain Brisbon, 34
it was crime to be black in Arizona
For Tamir Rice, 12
it...

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© Barry Levy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: walter scott, anger, bereavement, black african american, corruption, political,
Form: Verse
Sir Walter Scott Kaufmann
Yet with the recent collapse of the garden estate, Abe knew
The devil had appeared down, in, up out the chimney flue
As a result Eve had lost the Rose, petals fallin' to the ground
His brother Cain...

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Categories: walter scott, abortion, anger, assonance, brother, cancer, christian, christmas,
Form: Alexandrine
A Tangled Web of Lies
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Can't help but to recall this famous quote from Sir Walter Scott...
When one reads the latest revelations on the financial scandal that is...

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Categories: walter scott, anxiety, betrayal, community, confusion, international, people, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Prebends Bridge, Thinking of Sarah
“Half church of God, half castle ‘gainst
 the Scot”,
Sir Walter Scott enthused when from this bridge
he wondered at the majesty of Durham,
as so did I, and countless youthful eyes
before and since, bright futures beckoning.
She must...

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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: walter scott, bereavement, heartbreak, loss, memory, missing you, murder,
Form: Free verse



I Will Live On
Death--- the last sleep? No the final awakening.


---Walter Scott










I am merely a thousand of winds that blow.
You will see me in the winter’s snow,
a glinting diamond glow.

Fleeting sunlight, I will become
that lingers and glows on...

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Categories: walter scott, seasons, uplifting, night, me, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Gift To You

“True love is the gift God has given to man alone beneath 
the heaven” – Walter Scott



You’re a precious gift of gorgeous gem God has given me, 
the celestial glimmer of divine treasure in you...

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Categories: walter scott, god, love,
Form: Couplet
Tangled Webs
Oh, what tangled webs we’re willing to weave,
When from our good senses we take leave,
Ignoring the Higher power.

With reckless abandon and lavish expenses,
We drink bitter dregs sin’s cup dispenses,
For sensual pleasures of the hour.

We pay...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: walter scott, devotion, life, drink, sensual,
Form: Narrative
Our Human Race
Our human race has kept its place
in evolutionary pace
amid the species that have sprung
from earthly parentage among
some vanishing without a trace.

A quest for home in outer space
in lieu of earth in madcap chase
is pushing to...

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Categories: walter scott, earth, humanity, space, stars, universe, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Monument To Sir Walter Scott - Glasgow
Nigh on ninescore year hae I
Preside o'er thaes city faer
But i' shoundna be me on thaes stule
In Mad King Gaerge's Squaer

In life a saemple claerk o' law 
Who frae Edinburrah hael
'nd 's kent tae woo...

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Categories: walter scott, art,
Form: Personification

Book: Reflection on the Important Things