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Tartan Poems - Poems about Tartan


Premium Member Tartan
ancestral colours rallying the clans Culloden day trip...

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Categories: tartan, color, history,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Tartan Mixture of Water and Wind
The Scottish climate is something else there's a coldness that bites within one needs well wrapped up outside protect your inner soul so not to sin Its renowned climate here in Scotland with so much rainfall through the year one never knows what the forecast says anythings possible when rain does hear There is a force that comes through the hills and mountains of...

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Categories: tartan, life, water, weather, wind,
Form: Rhyme



Tartan Time
In bonnie Scotland wear a kilt (it seems the thing to do) - the tartan comes in reds and greens, and mine's a shade of blue! written 13th March for Julia's Scottish kilt contest...

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Categories: tartan, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dress To the Rescue
Highland culture filter Words out of kilter? KILT KILL DILL DIAL DEAL PEAL PEAN PLAN CLAN No, clandestine link Brings the Dress Act of 1746 to the brink! The mighty kilt On which highland culture is built...

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Categories: tartan, fashion, history, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Weathered Scarf of Tartan Pain
What is it then that holds us in its grasp For fear has fled and love too long denied Restrains itself within the hour of taps Binding itself to latent tears uncried For time will pass among the stoic stones Count cadence for the passing hood and scythe As leaves of broken dreams that hang alone Cling to failed promises of...

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Categories: tartan, courage, family, history,
Form: Sonnet



At the Tartan Bonnet
At the Tartan Bonnet next to the Smithy’s stall, a picture labelled monster is hanging on the wall. The photograph is fuzzy, looks like a bunch of tyres, held to a piece of deadwood by nails and string, or wires. The locals say that tourists are gullible, rich fools, that no sign has been noted by scientific tools. The view over the water is really rather good; another compensation is...

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Categories: tartan, fantasy, fun, humor, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tartan and Pipes
Tradition and dress A nations finesse Symbolic in style By a country mile The drone of the pipes Tartan clad Bonnie on the girls Proud on the lads Highland dancers In kilted skirts Grooms at weddings Kilt and dirk But our Tartan and Pipes Go back many years Led soldiers into battles See the enemy fear After Culloden Both were banned A country naked At the English hand Our clans of many In...

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Categories: tartan, history, inspirational, passion, places
Form: Rhyme

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