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annaneen
Number of posts: 44
Age: 66
Location: Newport S.Wales, but proudly Scottish
Points: 102
Registration date: 2011-08-30
 | | Subject: Scotland Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:18 pm | |
| Scotland
A land of sun-lit mountains
and purple heathered glens.
The land of the Malt whisky
and mony a 'but an ben'.
This is the land that's Scotland
the land that I call home
For love of it is ingrained deep
no matter where I roam.
My father wasn't born there
although he had some worth
I always just referred to it
as an accident of birth.
But he had to spend his life there
like many gone before.
Because once caught, you can't let go
it gets inside your pores.
For those of us who come from there
it has a tug and pull
so that no matter where we be
our hearts are always full.
We cannot pass a castle
or a river deep and serious
but our thoughts turn to our homeland
so fair, yet so mysterious.
It evokes the deepest emotions
in friend or foe alike.
A land that's adored around the world
all others so unlike.
In common with other patriots
who've found themselves living away,
I pray when I die, that my ashes will lie
by the side of an old scottish brae.
© Ian Lumley
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bruce_hh
Number of posts: 4432
Age: 64
Location: Monterey, California, U.S.A.
Points: 4931
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: Scotland Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:25 pm | |
| Dear **Ian**: Your liking for home shines mightily as your lines roam. No Scot might I be now, yet I might feel free now to thank you for turning some loam!  |
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Doreen Hampshire
Number of posts: 2569
Age: 71
Location: HULL England
Points: 2394
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: Scotland Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:51 pm | |
| a good description of Boony Scotland Paid many visits there as I have a Scottish grandaughter Born and lives in Perth. _________________   |
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jimmy1
Number of posts: 243
Age: 67
Location: blackpool
Points: 300
Registration date: 2008-10-23
| | Subject: scotland Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:12 pm | |
| | annaneen wrote: | Scotland
A land of sun-lit mountains
and purple heathered glens.
The land of the Malt whisky
and mony a 'but an ben'.
This is the land that's Scotland
the land that I call home
For love of it is ingrained deep
no matter where I roam.
My father wasn't born there
although he had some worth
I always just referred to it
as an accident of birth.
But he had to spend his life there
like many gone before.
Because once caught, you can't let go
it gets inside your pores.
For those of us who come from there
it has a tug and pull
so that no matter where we be
our hearts are always full.
We cannot pass a castle
or a river deep and serious
but our thoughts turn to our homeland
so fair, yet so mysterious.
It evokes the deepest emotions
in friend or foe alike.
A land that's adored around the world
all others so unlike.
In common with other patriots
who've found themselves living away,
I pray when I die, that my ashes will lie
by the side of an old scottish brae. |
im with you there it will always be my hame jimmy xx |
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Carol Perroni
Number of posts: 682
Points: 761
Registration date: 2008-12-27
| | Subject: Re: Scotland Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:54 am | |
| The beauty of your country and your love for it shines through, Ian  A lovely poem. Best, Carol |
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Gilly J
Number of posts: 1251
Points: 1178
Registration date: 2008-10-21
| | Subject: Re: Scotland Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:41 am | |
| A lovely poem, captured the spirit of the country well.. Gilly |
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Ian Russell
Number of posts: 157
Age: 80
Location: Alloa,Clackmannanshire
Points: 290
Registration date: 2008-10-28
| | Subject: Re: Scotland Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:33 pm | |
| AS I`ve aye said"You micht tak the Scot out of Scotland but he`ll aye try to come back even if it`s in a box" love this one Ian Ian R. :  |
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davidf
Number of posts: 1799
Points: 1579
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: Scotland Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:10 pm | |
| Ian L.,
I've never been to Scoitland but it sounds like a nice place. We must alwayus stick up for our heitage as you have done in this poem. Good job.
Your friend,
David Fox |
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Eunice Perkins
Number of posts: 2668
Location: New Zealand
Points: 2329
Registration date: 2008-11-06
| | Subject: Re: Scotland Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:00 am | |
| Scotland is one country I have always wanted to visit. I love the scots accent too. I thoroughly enjoyed your poem.  |
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Kevin Redwolf
Number of posts: 564
Age: 37
Location: Kansas City Missouri
Points: 684
Registration date: 2008-12-06
| | Subject: Re: Scotland Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:29 am | |
| I think Scotland will probably be independent before the turn of the century. Hopefully sooner than later. (I say this as somebody who is half Irish and half Setter........) |
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