Each month we will be featuring a guest writer and this month is Laurence Overmire. Laurence Overmire is an American actor/director/writer who has worked on stage, film and television. His poetry has been widely published in the U.S. and abroad, most recently in "Lynx Eye," "Emotions,""Angelflesh," "Maelstrom," "Poetic Dreamer," "Main Street Rag Poetry Journal," "Bardo Burner," "Pegasus," "Mobius," "Footprints," "Vol. No. Magazine," "Lynx: Poetry from Bath," "Poetry DownUnder," "Cotyledon," "Psychopoetica," "This Hard Wind," "Niederngasse," "The Hinterland," "Samsara Quarterly," "Kookamonga Square," "The Adirondack Review," and "The Oracular Tree."

Face to the wind in bitter cold Beards crusted with ice Gray eyes steeled in fierce rebellion No foreign blade to master The proud beating of a stout Highland heart. The kilted clans had banned together MacDonald and Fraser, Cameron and Stuart A Bonnie Prince to lead them Outnumbered, yet undaunted Flags defiantly unfurled A shaft of courage to drive sweet freedom Home. The bagpipe sounds its thrilling tune The ranks in line of tartan shield English cannon pounding From generation to generation Father and son Kinsman and brother A slow steady advance and Charge! Across the sodden moor Broadswords waving Over the blood-stained ground A gallant fight of hand-to-hand And death At last succumbing An hundred years and more No more The final thrust of grim Fate’s story Upon a Scots grave field Of honor.

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