He shouts the name of Bannockburn
whereas I go on about Flodden

He praises that film about Wallace
(the one which I thought was rotten).

And while I tell tales of King Harold
he drinks for the Bonnie Prince

We were both losers, I assured him –
though he's not so easy to convince

© David Francis Barker

Nearly half of English oppose Scottish independence - poll
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David says, 'I try to paint, write poetry, prose, sometimes music - I guess that makes me an artist.'