My Heart Beats Fast in the Highlands ©
(In anticipation of tonight's Burns Supper)
Nat Hall
Sandwick, Shetland
2004
I'll give my soul
to Burns
tonight;
whisky will flow
down
in glasses(!)
like river Coe
through wild heather -
share haggis
with lads and lasses;
a verse or two
in candle light.
My heart beats
fast in the Highlands,
I hear Robbie
and a bagpipe...
all that freedom
in blue and white,
we'll dress our
words in old tartans.
Poetry flows in us
tonight;
Scotworld will dance
from dusk
till dawn...
around fires,
laughs and tables -
a fling of life
all through
the night.
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