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Thread: The National Poem
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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8 October is National Poetry Day, so herewith a collective (I hope) poem on the theme of nations - your own, other people's, Six (rugby fans only), First (if Canadian) - you get the idea.
Four lines, rhyming abab, the first line of each stanza to incorporate as much of the last line of the previous as possible. (Just the last word is admissible, but more gain you Poetic Points).
What makes a Scot? For me, the words are bridges
Here I can skelp, pauchle, dander, mitch and blether
Be drookit when it's driech, be fashed by midges.
I ken the tongue, and can thole the weather
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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I mair nor thole the weather; soughing rain
Maks rivers, lochs an' burns: they flow
As they have ayewise done; artery and vein
Of an ancient land, my ain, my love, my jo.
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Ferijen
Shipmate
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Of an ancient land, my own, my love, my – well!
On this side of The Wall we underplay
The beauty of our land, and like to tell
Only of the weather’s mood all day.
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Ariel
Shipmate
# 58
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The weather’s mood all day is bright,
Sea breezes bringing spice and passion
To an ancient land, bathed in light
Full of music, chatter, coffee, fashion.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
# 619
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Music, chatter, fashion, coffee, bellisima!
Vino, Strega, grappa, latte, dolce e piccante
Ferrari, Lamborghini, Fiat, Ford Cortina
Lento, fortissimo, presto and andante.
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Ariel
Shipmate
# 58
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Presto presto, do your very besto
Sample the sauerkraut, Schwarzbier, wurst,
Limburger, Hamburger, pasta with pesto
Lebkuchen and strudel till you're ready to burst.
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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Cheer till you're ready to burst, Wa-ales,
Coal, slate and gold, land changing mines,
Eisteddfods and rugby, hills and vales,
Celebrate in home-grown beer and wines
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Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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And wines, so many wines, from those vines
That stripe the hills in long green lines
Bluebell blue the jacaranda twines
Above red dirt, dark diamond mines.
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