#burnsnight2024 — Public Fediverse posts
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"When I approach the poetry of #RobertBurns I feel as if I approach the Holy Grail." (Maya Angelou), #BurnsNight #AuldLangSyne #ScotsWhaHae #BurnsNight2024 - we need more poets in #ProjektMyra #Poetry #Gedichte
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#BurnsNight2024 🏴
O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
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Yay. Burn’s Night all sorted. Thank you #MandS
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Yay. Burn’s Night all sorted. Thank you #MandS
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Yay. Burn’s Night all sorted. Thank you #MandS
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Yay. Burn’s Night all sorted. Thank you #MandS
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Fall in Love and Buy a Horse
by Kevin MacNeilA short story for Burns Night – Luna the talking greyhound has her own ideas for a celebration…
#Scottish #literature #shortstories #shortfiction #BurnsNight #BurnsNight2024 #greyhounds
https://booksfromscotland.com/2023/10/nothing-but-a-set-of-eyes-for-the-stars/
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Holograph manuscript of “Address to the Unco Guid” with headnote to John Leslie, dated June 1789 – this appears to be the only known #manusript of the poem in the poet’s hand. Part of the G. Ross Roy Collection at the University of South Carolina
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My Son, these maxims make a rule,
An’ lump them aye thegither;
The Rigid Righteous is a fool,
The Rigid Wise anither:
The cleanest corn that ere was dight
May hae some pyles o’ caff in;
So ne’er a fellow-creature slight
For random fits o’ daffin.—Robert Burns, “Address to the Unco Guid, or the Ridgidly Righteous”
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #BurnsNight2024 #poetry
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Dear Robert Burns,
You skipped the big town streets just like I done, you ducked the crosstown cop just like I ducked, you dodged behind a beanpole to beat the bigtime dick and you very seldom stopped off in any big city where the rigged corn wasn’t drying nor the hot vine didn’t help you do your talking…
“To That Man Robert Burns”
—Woody Guthrie, June 9, 1947
Published in Woody Guthrie, Born To Win (Macmillan, 1965) -
I murder hate by flood or field,
Tho’ glory’s name may screen us;
In wars at home I’ll spend my blood—
Life-giving wars of Venus.
The deities that I adore
Are social Peace and Plenty;
I’m better pleas’d to make one more,
Than be the death of twenty…Originally written on a window in the Globe tavern, Dumfries, this is Robert Burns at his "Make love, not war” best
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #BurnsNight2024 #poetry
Poem performed by Ghetto Priest:
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“Angelou on Burns” is also available on YouTube, for those who can’t get the iPlayer
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #MayaAngelou #BurnsNight #BurnsNight2024 #poetry
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“On the dirt roads of Arkansas I first met Robert Burns…”
Currently on the BBC iPlayer: Dr Maya Angelou goes on a pilgrimage to the home of Robert Burns
(Originally broadcast in 1996 to mark the bicentenary of Burns’s death)
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #MayaAngelou #BurnsNight #BurnsNight2024 #poetry
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Listen to Sheena Wellington singing Robert Burns’s hymn to social equality at the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #18thCentury #enlightenment #equality #BurnsNight #BurnsNight2024 #poetry
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What though on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin grey, an’ a that;
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine;
A Man’s a Man for a’ that…—Robert Burns
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #18thCentury #enlightenment #equality #BurnsNight #BurnsNight2024 #poetry