Picts Poems - Poems about Picts

Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part II, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem

...Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part II
ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hrothulf and Hrothgar, uncle and nephew,
for a long time kept a careful peace tog...

Categories: picts, music, peace, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

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 ...

Categories: picts, beauty, feelings, growing up,
Form: Rhyme

In The Begining

...The Tale of Artuir mac Aedan; The light of the West.

In The Begining.

Behold my son this our home of Airer Goidell
in the land of Airer Goidell in Alba.
Far from our birthland of Ulaid across...

Categories: picts, baby, boy, fantasy, hero,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Remembering Tavish Macbain

...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 good f...

Categories: picts, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

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: picts, fairy,
Form: Verse

In Candid Cant

...In humans narcissity, indifferent continually partly?
Caring effacing cursing raving 
In-continuity..' Maybe? Am I trite? 
Light entertainment;T V trials expose's
Speak of sensuality, tease by pr...

Categories: picts, abuse, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

Vallum Hadriani

...
              Hadrian's wall
        Stood proud it was the empire's pride 
      The Picts were a thorn renowned for their gall
        So Rome built a divide
  With watchtowers and forts i...

Categories: picts, england, soldier,
Form: Rhyme

England - Gleaming In the Distance

...across the Doggerland dogged people trudge
  Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
  hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
  the mighty maw of an ice wall crunches, enfor...

Categories: picts, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative

On Racism

...“This country is ours!” is their rallying call,
“We don't want any strangers like you”
but since Celts, Picts and Romans
no-one owns this land,
we are all of us just passing through.
“We're Engl...

Categories: picts, race,
Form: Rhyme

Settlers Ashore

...Of European descent, from whence they came

Across the borders to settle, re-establishment

Angles, Saxons and Jutes – Anglo-Saxon be known

Conquered lands, such roads have served, that of the...

Categories: picts, children, education,
Form: Free verse

A Futuristic Christmas 2044

...My feet felt like frostbite had got them, 
Even though I had my suede boots on, 
I had just jovially returned from,  
That successful Christmas shopping trip, 
With no other reason to feel got at...

Categories: picts, christmas, computer, friendship, future,
Form: Free verse

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: picts, memory, education,
Form: Free verse