Into the Borders 2021
This set of haiku were written during a summer bus trip to Melrose in the the Scottish borders.
Tartan dressed cowboys
Down from the three Eildon Hills
Market square heroes
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Twisted Tweed, blue line
Route of the debated land
Walked but untrodden
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Warring yellow gorse
Militant rough legged heather
Let battle commence
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Fallen warriors
Leafless giants stand no more
Broken memories
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Noble Scottish pine
Long buried heart of the Bruce
Jewel of Melrose
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Golden sandstone built
Scott's baronial home
Sleepy Abottsford
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Braw on Gun Knowe loch
Upright trees bathe wooden feet
Wild white swans gather
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Jackdaw, Crow, Magpie
Nest lining sticks, greet the dawn
Honey Buzzard cries