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