SAMHUINN
...SAMHUINN
Wi samhuin fast approaching
When people start tae dread,
The gates of hell burst open
For the festival of the dead.
Bane shanks lifts his scythe
And scrieves his words in fire,
Welc...
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Categories:
mony, fantasy, fear, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
NOISE
...
This world is full of noise,enough to burst,
your mind and destroy well being lust,
noise from traffic on ground and air,
from telly,s ,radios and everywhere.
Gies a break we aa bellow,
makin ...
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Categories:
mony, anxiety, conflict, depression, pain,
Form: Rhyme
A Late Sixties Prom
...prom time
stars bright
pumped teens’
big night
tux and
formal
far from
normal
moms snap
photos
dads smile
pride shows
limo’s
spacious
driver’s
gracious
buffet’s
tast...
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Categories:
mony, dance, nostalgia, school,
Form: Footle
Auld Lang Syne the Most Sung New Years Eve Song
...“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song
Courtesy Robert Burns
circa (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the Ploughman Poet.
Two hundred si...
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Categories:
mony, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free 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,
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Categories:
mony, age, drink, friend, friendship,
Form: Verse
Tae a Mouse
... Tae A Mouse
(Whit wid Robert Burns say!)
Ha’ where ye gon ye cowrin feartie
Your impudence protects you sairly
I canna say but ye strut yer stuff
And quite honestly we’ve had e...
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Categories:
mony, celebration, creation, funny, humorous,
Form: Lyric
Recollections of a Reckless Youth
...Warning: Mature themes, though at the time.
Recollections of a Reckless Youth
Walking On Air.
I was young, I was fair...
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Categories:
mony, life,
Form: I do not know?
Modern Mony
...Alimony,
Palimony,
Dogimony too
Not macaroni,
With acrimony,
Pay me or I'll sue
Send a money heap
So I will keep
The dog that leaped
Before the heat
Of who did cheat
Brought us defeat.
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Categories:
mony, funny
Form: Rhyme