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Short Highland Poems

Short Highland Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Highland by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Highland by length and keyword.


Golden Blooms
golden blooms
   ready to burst -
   highland gorse...

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Categories: highland, flower, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member The Copperhead
Copperheaded Snake
Highland moccasin dread
Kin to cottonmouth...

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Categories: highland, nature
Form: Haiku
Highland Gales
wailing banshee
  screams through cottage -
  morning brings calm...

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Categories: highland, weather,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Hamish
on the mantelpiece
sits Hamish the Highland Cow,
dreaming of mountains...

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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highland, dream,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member From Highland Park To Afghanistan
Glimpse the state of a nation
                                ~ at its Independence Day Parades...

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Categories: highland, celebration, leadership, march, murder, society,
Form: Monoku



Achfary Highland
Fear came in numbers,
 bravery stood alone

The battle intrepid
—glory atoned

(Scottish Moors: September, 1978)...

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Categories: highland, courage, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Highland Whispers
Highland whispers, echoes of innocence
Noble virtues of man, bereft of insolence
Highland whispers... life's pristine existence....

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Categories: highland, myth, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member Prophetess of Scottish Highland
A welcome prophetess of Scottish Highland
Get the sacred flower to become
The next Queen of faerie Island.
Killing it softly and then some....

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Categories: highland, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Chastushka
Highland Fling
A Scot of the fearsome Black Watch
Regrettably drank all the Scotch
His wife made it clear
She did not like beer
With a fearsome kick to his crotch....

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Categories: highland, drink,
Form: Limerick
Flee Fly Flo Flung
To Ben McDuff poor Mary would cling
When Ben McDuff did his Highland Fling
But so fast did he fling than she came unclung
And over the Highlands she was flung...

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Categories: highland, destiny, devotion, endurance, humor, uplifting,
Form: Light Verse
My Promise
As rain drops never fails to touch the land
As waves never fails to overcome the sand
As birds never fails to reach highland
I'll never fail to love you till the end...

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Categories: highland, anniversary, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, nature, wedding, wife,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Our Highland Stag
~"~ Our King of the Glens ~"~ ~"~ In proud defense of it's realm ~"~ ~"~"Majestic in stance ~"~ http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/scotland-4.php
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Categories: highland, animals, places
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Heather
Reflected in emerald water
the purple of her Highland dress.

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Contest: Any Crystalline
Sponsor: Rick Parise
© 12th November 2016...

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Categories: highland, imagery,
Form: Crystalline
Premium Member Got Wrinkles On My Wrinkles
Almost eight-six, that's over the hill But the Highland Fling, I'm able to do still As my kilt flips up One can see I'm no pup Got wrinkles on my wrinkles, heading downhill
...

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Categories: highland, age,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Got Wrinkles On My Wrinkles
Almost eight-four, that's over the hill But the Highland Fling, I'm able to do still As my kilt flips up One can see I'm no pup Got wrinkles on my wrinkles, heading downhill
...

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Categories: highland, fun,
Form: Limerick
Complete Again
To wander through  Yorkshire dales
Or wend in watery wooded Wales
Lean into wind of  lowland moors
Or eagle watch on Highland tors
To find my selves again agrin 
In druid sweet perfection fin...

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Categories: highland, introspection, nature,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Jan's Still Dancing the Highland Fling
Hello dear Jan how are you doing Are you still dancing the highland fling Once tried it in vain Difficult with a cane This oldie has a broken his mainspring for Jan Allison
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Categories: highland, anxiety, cheer up,
Form: Limerick
The Creation Needle
Being at the peak
Of the top of Ben Nevis,
See the Great Glen
And each snow bleached crevis.
You see why it's part
of the "Highland Cathedral",
And the faith it injects
By the creation needle....

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© Peter Hall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highland, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wrinkles On My Wrinkles
Well I just turn eighty, that's over the hill But the Highland Fling, I'm able to do still As my kilt flips up One can see I'm no pup With wrinkles on my wrinkles I'm heading downhill
...

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Categories: highland, age,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Wrinkles On My Wrinkles
Well I just turn eighty, that's over the hill But the Highland Fling, I'm able to do still As my kilt flips up One can see I'm no pup With wrinkles on my wrinkles, I'm heading downhill
...

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Categories: highland, fun,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Got Wrinkles On My Wrinkles
Will soon turn eighty-eight, that's over the hill But the Highland Fling, I'm able to do still As my kilt flips up One can see I'm no pup With wrinkles on my wrinkles I'm heading downhill
...

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Categories: highland, allusion,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Got Wrinkles On My Wrinkles
Well I just turn eighty-three, that's over the hill But the Highland Fling, I'm able to do still As my kilt flips up One can see I'm no pup Got wrinkles on my wrinkles, I'm heading downhill
...

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Categories: highland, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Highland Limerick
The once was a man from faraway
who held life in his hand as the pen did sway
With ink on the page, He left us a daze
And all the the ladies did swoon away!


The Limerick Game..James Fraser has been tagged!!!...

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Categories: highland, friendship
Form: Limerick
Ned's Spring
There once was a Scotsman called Ned,
Who spent all his time in his bed.
He broke yet another spring,
As he danced the Highland Fling.
‘They make beds so fragile,’ he said.

For Francine's Wow me in Five Lines....

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highland, music
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My 2023: Ugh
A house in motion near an ocean ... cautious one to leave. A highland house owned by time affects one ... wakes to a place in whites. A house boarded by healed one ... one's beach house welcomes New Year.
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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highland, analogy, appreciation, confidence, encouraging, health, hope, inspiration,
Form: Sijo

Book: Reflection on the Important Things