This year Robert Burns' 250th birthday celebration is the best yet. Across the world many are raising their glasses and giving toasts to a great poet and song writer. Burns wrote hundreds of enduring poems and song to Scottish life and beyond including "Address to a Haggis" (1786), "The Highland Lassie" (1786), "Auld Lang Syne" (1788), "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton" (1789), "My Luve is Like a Red, Red Rose" (1794), and "Tam O'Shanter" (1790). He is still hailed as the most highly celebrated poem in the world in 2009.

An acrostic poem uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem. Thereafter, all lines of the poem relate to or describe the title of the poem. The poem is written with the words formed vertically down the left side page. One letter is used for each line. The words do not have to rhyme. Adjectives, verbs, and other phrases may be used to describe the subject. The following is a contribution to Robert Burns in the form of an Acrostic Poem:

Robert Burns-An Acrostic Poem Contribution

Robert Burns, born January 25, 1759, at Alloway, Scotland near Ayr, poet and song writer of loving love lyrics

Older brother, Gilbert, rented a farm near Mauchline in 1984 after his father died, Burns had to support himself

Burns passionately and freely loved ladies, and had 8 illegitimate children from 5 different one like elves

Eventually wrote poetry extensively while farming to gain cash to support his kids and pay support he did

Robbie married Jean Armour in 1788, the mother of his child(s), loving ladies he did not quit and did admit

Tam o' Shanter" he published in a volume of "Antiquities of Scotland" an illustration of Alloway Kirk as his works

Burns wrote 114 songs to "A Select Collection of Scottish Airs" by George Thomson, received little pay he says

Upon love for French Revolution wrote "For a' that and a' that," his cry for human equality and quest for equity

Rheumatic fever took his life, on July 21, 1796, buried in churchyard of St. Michael's in Dumfries many cried

Now, "My Love is Like a Red, Red, Rose," the ladies loved to sing and quote as one of Burns favorite toast

Saw fame after his death when many of his songs and poems have become international favorites and aspirates