List: Scotland

Poems with a Scottish theme or content

• I Long To Return (Bu Deonach Leam Tilleadh)

  I remember the days when we laughed like two sisters,
  In the green-shaded lochan we splashed and we swam,

  30 lines, 53 comments, on Feb 10 2:36 AM 2006. In Lyrics, Love
• Why winter came to the glen

  “She sat upon her rock in moonlight grey ~

  22 lines, 9 comments, on Feb 16 12:22 PM 2006. In Fantasy, Sad
• A’Sheumais Ban, mo chridhe (lullaby)

  The gentle waves on Barra’s shore
  The coral beach of Skye

  29 lines, 26 comments, on Mar 18 3:32 AM 2006. In Lyrics, Love, Childrens
• You must never attempt Scots poetry unless you really know what you are doing

  Och the muckle dhuie-dhu,

  5 lines, 22 comments, on Apr 24 12:03 AM 2006. In Humor
• Gaidhealtachd (a poem of the Clearances)

  See here, where every rock you pass
  Is named, but with a child-like care

  41 lines, 12 comments, on May 17 11:26 AM 2006. In Sad, Other
• Vignette - at Callanish

  I came at last up to the place of stone,
  Just at the very turning of the year

  22 lines, 10 comments, on Jun 14 4:22 PM 2006. In Fantasy, Weird, Dark
• By Ballachulish Bridge

  I mind the time, when I was very wee,
  A chain-pulled ferry stretched across the kyles

  39 lines, 27 comments, on Jun 19 11:04 AM 2006. In Sad, Other
• A widow’s hatred of Wallace

  You fiend, you hound of hell we have you fast!
  In London you have undergone your trial.

  24 lines, 14 comments, on Jun 22 3:47 PM 2006. In Other, Dark
• The Grey Lady of Gruline

  Wee, wicked wifey, elf-shot grizzled stane,
  Ye show tae me your ugly shouder bane.

  25 lines, 27 comments, on Sep 24 3:57 AM 2006. In Fantasy
• My plaid shall be of rowan-berry red

  My plaid shall be of rowan-berry red
  Or crossed with bars of deepest forest leaf

  0 lines, 23 comments, on Nov 20 12:03 AM 2006. In Nature
• Cousin to 'each-uisge'

  In the river Conon, bright
  Ripples in the mystic night...

  26 lines, 15 comments, on Mar 1 12:42 PM 2007. In Fantasy
• Soutar's wains

  An auld truth, at which wise men nod -
  "The soutar's wains are aye warst shod."

  3 lines, 20 comments, on Apr 24 7:42 AM 2007. In Humor, folklore, Scots
• a Glasgow snapshot

  20 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 23 5:25 PM. In Contemporary, City
• At Gruline Kirk

  43 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 26 4:18 AM. In Paranormal, Personal, free verse
• The Tartan and the Blue (an American Civil War ballad)

  46 lines, 27 comments, on Apr 5 2:51 AM. In Ballad, History, American Civil War
• The Ballad of the Hieland Quines

  36 lines, 24 comments, on Apr 6 12:29 PM. In Ballad, Scottish
• Ebb: lines written at Broughty Castle

  11 lines, 17 comments, on Apr 9 1:51 AM. In Thoughts
• The imperfect speakers

  16 lines, 26 comments, on Apr 18 8:55 AM. In Sonnet, Weird, Weird Sisters, Scottish
• At Håkon’s Cove

  50 lines, 10 comments, on Apr 21 11:00 AM. In History, Vikings
• The Forfar Drinker's Lament

  There’s a pub of great renown at the back of Forfar town
  Where my auld pal Jock MacAuley did his drinking.
  

  35 lines, 19 comments, on Feb 29 7:51 AM. In Humor, Scottish, Personal
• Address tae a sausage roll!

  17 lines, 18 comments, on May 2 2:46 AM. In Humor, Scots, Parody
• Midsummer on the Hill O' Many Stanes

  28 lines, 52 comments, on May 3 10:57 AM. In Summer, Weird, Fantasy

• right now

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