Highland Visitation

a visitation of cloth draped about you; a pearl
to link the lady therein –
a weave of highlands revisited,
 more than a name can give –

amid water of memory cast shallow,
long shadows promise
of virtue filled –
beauty concealing a thread
unwritten ... word you
shall hold in concord -

presented by course of the highlands,
as the hound stands in
watch of a maid,
draped in weave; the cloth found worthy
of life held to binding cause -

be it the tartan revealing
my namesake; your heart entwined
that I succumb -
to its bearing, my lass,
my lady,  I bow to
the highlands in
pause


bkmackenzie
copyrighted 2008



This is one of my favourite pieces that I wrote a few years ago....I thought it appropriate to post today as I am heading for my yearly trek to the Scottish Games in Woodland CA.  It is a wonderful event and all the tartans are beautiful... There is nothing like hearing the mass bagpipe bands playing Amazing Grace .... the dancing , and listening to the Wicked Tinkers doing the MacKenzie Charge a wonderful day of events...

This poem was also featured by Gordon Mason at Catapult to Mars last year...as well as one of the poems read on my podcast linked on my sidebar....now it is off to the games.....bkm