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Writing Workshop – We’re Going on a Word Hunt…

26th January 2011 By Susan Mann 9 Comments

This is my entry for the lovely Josie’s Writing Workshop over at Sleep is for the Weak.

This week the prompt is We’re going on a word hunt. This means that we should pick a word we see that inspires us. Since it is Burns day yesterday, it got me thinking how much I love the country I live in. I think the yummy haggis, whiskey and shortbread for dinner helped. So I have decided to write a poem on what Scotland means to me. I hope you like it.

 

Scotland

The frosty mornings,
The grass glistening,
The spiderwebs like glass,
The puffs of air,
The cold sunshine.

The castles towering,
The high cliffs they are upon,
The magnificent building,
The turrets spiraling upwards,
The imagination running wild.

The beautiful sights,
The glassy lochs,
The monster hiding beneath the water,
The green trees and shrubbery,
The salmon jumping.

The haggis all spicy and warm,
The whiskey chinking in the glass,
The shortbread buttery and yummy,
The honey gooey and sticky,
The tablet sugary and sweet.

I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.

Hope you enjoyed my poem, why not check out the rest of the entries over at Sleep is for the weak.
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Filed Under: Parenting, Travel, Writing Tagged With: Castles, Haggis, Parenting, Poerty, Scottish Poetry

Comments

  1. Josie @Sleep is for says

    26th January 2011 at 9:35 pm

    I love this. I have fallen in love with Scotland myself lately – you live in a beautiful country and I live that you are so proud of it 🙂 x

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  2. carolefindsherwings says

    26th January 2011 at 9:39 pm

    Love it 🙂 Scotland has always been one of my favourite places – we used to frequent it on family holidays – and your poem sums it all up perfectly using all the senses. Just brilliant :D*needs to get writing her entry – it's still an idea and a blank page*

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  3. carole says

    27th January 2011 at 1:11 pm

    I so enjoyed that it sums up Scotland beautifully! x

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  4. theworkinghousewife says

    27th January 2011 at 6:56 pm

    Beautiful poem. Scotland is on my list of places to see.. and you've only made me want to visit more. 🙂

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  5. elainescott77 says

    27th January 2011 at 7:18 pm

    Beautiful poem Susan, made me want tablet though mmmmm and want to go a weekend break somewhere up north hehe xxx

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  6. MissBohemia says

    28th January 2011 at 10:57 pm

    Beautifully written poem Susan!

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  7. libertyfallsdown says

    29th January 2011 at 1:41 pm

    I'm afraid my overriding memory of Scotland is midges… I got eaten alive and came home looking like an extra from Star Trek. If only my experience of Scotland had been as nice as your poem!

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  8. SusanKMann says

    30th January 2011 at 10:00 pm

    Thank you for all your lovely comments. I'm sorry @libertyfallsdown you didn't have a good time in Scotland. Come back again it will be better, no midges in the winter.

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  9. Heather Davis says

    4th February 2011 at 11:03 pm

    We go to Scotland every year and it is a beautiful country. I always feel taken back in to a different time and place when life was simpler and there were no modern trappings. I guess the place we stay in helps promote those feelings as it is remote and rustic. Still it is a lovely and place and you have every right to feel lucky to live there.

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