Pict Poems

Advocate Doctor

...Hard disk,
My bisque.

Doc files,
Spread miles.

Drum Tunes,
Spiked dunes.

Surf gem,
Turf mem.

Tough chat,
Loved stat.

Pict list,
Deft mist.

Top space,
Set face....

Categories: pict, appreciation, computer, confidence, innocence,
Form: Footle

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 t...

Categories: pict, fairy,
Form: Verse

Dark Humour For Christmas

...Father Christmas was flirting with fate
On accepting for once a blind date
In the park on a bench
He sat waiting to quench
His desires but she was very late.

Snow was falling and that made it ...

Categories: pict, christmas, confusion, fate,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Glass Art

...your elusive love

slips beyond my fragile grasp

       shattered emotions

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Joined Soup on: 22 Feb 2014
Contest: Glass Art by Skat A
Inspired by Glass ...

Categories: pict, heartbreak, love,
Form: Haiku

Northern England

...NORTHERN   ENGLAND

Steep hills and sudden

Gouged by ice, and water-formed -

This is no  civilized  landscape gentle

With  demesne and orchard

And sun-kissed downland copses;

It is t...

Categories: pict, home,
Form: Free verse

Kissing In the Rain

...Flame in hearts,
Kissing me in the rain,
Tranquilised.

On Pict #2

Craving for harbour,
Kiss of life in the rain,
Enigma unveils.

On pict#4

Seized my umbrella ,
Kissing me in the rain...

Categories: pict, desire, rain,
Form: Haiku

Gateshead Gate - Crash

...These steep hills are part of me
Where I learned to ride a bike
And gazed over the industrial haze
And ice-dammed the steep melting  streets
So the toy boat couldn’t
Drift out of control downslope.

...

Categories: pict, memory, education,
Form: Free verse

She Was a Pict

...I got ripped
Then I tripped 
Not the one you call a stumble

Read the script
Then I flipped
We were headed for a rumble

First I kicked
And got nicked
My mind was in a jumble

She was red...

Categories: pict, art
Form: I do not know?

Rock On

...Scot and Gael 
Pict and Brit
Even Cymru
Thrive in grit
No Back up
Not a bit
‘tis Celtic
Stubborn
Writ.
Fired in adversity
Tempered in
Ice cool
Deliberation
Honed in
Tribal
Code
One wi...

Categories: pict, family, life, nature,
Form: Blank verse