Lmst

Best get stairtit noo
An no tyne a chance tae yaise
These grand scots wurds!

#haiku #scotstober #tyne #dayone #1 #writing #scrievin #scots

#scotstober

Day 22 - Glower

Stay still, bawdron beast
Dinnae glower! Ach, crivvens
Weel, yer bonnie yet

Made up oan the spot so's Ah could get aw caught up oan the month!

Ah hink Ah made a few wee promises in there tae record stuff!

#scots #scotsleid #haiku #poyum #writing #scrievin

A black cat sitting in the sunshine, eying the camera with some suspicion.

#scotstober

Day 21 - Duil

Noo, Ah spent ages tryin tae come up wi a satisfactory haiku fir this, then suddenly Ah minded that I kenned the wird frae a song Ah sang jist the ither day at a local concert.
The song is cried 'The Four marys' an Joan Baez covert it wance. This is the version Ah ken, an Ah will record a version wance mah voice is back.

#scots #scotsleid #folk #trad #writing #scrievin #song

The Four Marys

Yestreen the Queen had four Marys
The nicht She’ll hae but three
There’s Mary Beaton, an Mary Beaton
An Mary Carmichael and me

O often hae i dressed my Queen
An put Gowd in her hair
But noo I’ve gotten fir my reward
The gallows tae be my share

O happy, happy is the maid
That’s born of beauty free
Fir was my dimplin, rosy cheek
That’s been the duil o me

Oh little did my mither think
The day she craddlt me
That I would dee sae far frae hame
Or hing on a gallows tree

#scotstober

Day 20 - ablow

Ah dinnae believe
There's a Heaven aboun us
Nae Hell ablow us

Ah' wi John oan this.

https://youtu.be/ugrAo8wEPiI?si=9rE8YGq9SimTQt2p

#scots #scotsleid #haiku #poyum #writing #scrievin #song #johnLennon

#scotstober

Day 19 - Wanhap

A week o wanhap
Gowpin tooth an stinkin cauld
Mah man's back is cowped

Strugglt wi this wan, bit there yes gaun.

#scots #scotsleid #haiku #poyum #writing #scrievin

#scotstober

Day 18 - Disjaskit

Oan a bonnie street
In a bonnie toon, it stauns
Disjaskit. Waitin.

#scots #scotsleid #haiku #poyum #writing #scrievin

An old outbuilding, probably once stables for a nearby big house. Overgrown with ivy, and although recently painted, it's very dilapidated. A large for sale sign hangs above one of it's three sets of double garage doors.
Directly on the side of the road, neatly painted, well looked after cottages can be seen on down the street from the old building.

#scotstober

Day 17 - Hirple

Pity Auld Aiken Drum
Hirplin doon the kintra lane
Greetin fir a lost hame

Aiken Drum is the name o the legendary Brownie o Blednoch, wha William Nicholson scrieved this poyum about:
https://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/brownie-of-blednoch.html

#scots #scotsleid #haiku #poyum #writing #scrievin #folklore

Ah couldna fin a pictur o Aiken Drum hisel, so Ah yaised this wiki commons image o a puir, hirplin beggar oan crutches. Line drawin.

So, here Ah am, catchin masel up oan #Scotstober
It's been a few days, has it no?
Onywey..

Day 15 - Heize

Be heized up by hope
Even in sic mirky times
Fir it ay bides oan

#scots

#scotsleid #haiku #poyum #writing #scrievin #photography

A buttery oan an aiple in the gairden. It's autumn, gettin cauld, bit the buttery clings oan with the sugery juice o the aiple. Wabbies eat frae the same aiple, and deid leaves an rottit aiples are lying in the nearby grass.

#scotstober
Day 7 - hunker

Ah maun be gettin auld
Fir Ah cannae hunker doon
Wiout yelpin wi pain!

No like this beastie, bit he's bit fower!

#Scots #haiku #poyum #scrievin #writing #scotsLeid #cat #blackcap #caturday

A black cat sitting on a concrete patio on his hunker.

#scotstober
Day 6 - ettle

Fir peace an wir Yird
Ah ettle we maun fecht now
High heid yons dae nocht

#Scots #poyum #scrievin #haiku #climatecrisis

Picture by Nasa

#scotstober
Day 4 - stamagast

Eggs stamagast us
Their foul reek jist maks us boak
Boiled, scrambled nor fried

Late fir yesterday, catchin up the day!

#Scots #haiku #poyum #writing #scrievin

#scotstober
Day 3 - bangster

A bangster, wha is thon?
A bliffertin bawbag
Mebbe a bawris?

#Scots #haiku #scotslanguage #writing #scrievin #poyum

Caricature of Boris Jonson
By Donkeyhotey

#Scotstober
Day 1 - fain

Oh Lucky! Wild besom
Clathed in Sun, they fain o you
As ye flee tae God

PS If ye've nae clue about the Buchanites, Ah'm gaun tae dae some videos oan them
If ye dae, then ye Ken.

#haiku #writing #scrievin #Scots #ScotsLanguage #poyum #poetry

Front cover of a book published in 1908 by John Cameron about the Buchanite sect from Ayrshire & Galloway.
Title is 'The Buchanite Delusion: 1783 - 1846

#writingWonders
8. Whit dae Ah no leave hame wi'out?
No sure Ah get the question, tae be honest like. The ainly hing Ah dinnae leave hame wi'out is ma claes!
Ah spose right the now Ah dinnae gaun naewhaur wi'out the keys tae the Porsche, bit could ye call the Porsche hame? Mebbes, Ah guess.

#writing #scrievinWunners #fiction #amEditing #Scots #novel #scrievin

#scrievinWunners
7. Wan sound an wan smell in yer MC's worst nightmare.

Ah hink she's lived it, no jist dreamed it. The sound o a jakey shoutin pure radge, the reek o booze, fags an blude.
They are the hings as haunt her, she associates they an the song '18 and Life' wi the moment her life went tae utter shite.

#scrievin #Scots

in #scots
#scrievinWunners
Ah've said it afore, Keri lives richt in the now. Thegither wi her puir self control and pride, she gets hersel intae loads o bother.
She disnae believe she deserves tae be happy in her hairt, and she's gey, gey guid at self sabotage....
#writing #amEditin #Scots #fiction #novel #scrievin

#writingWonders
13. The three maist important hings in ma life?
Nummer wan: me, masel an I. This wan Janis taught us, an no that lang ago, like. When Ah figured that out, Ah left that loser an stairtit life agin.
Nummer two: Ami Bane. Wi'out her, Ah've goat naewan an naewhere.
Nummer three: music. Ah couldnae live wi'out music.

#writing #amEditing #Scots #fiction #novel #scrievinWunners #scrievin

#scrievinWunners
12. Material possessions
In a wird, naw. She lives in the now an disnae hae twa beans tae rub thegither.
Tae Keri, the car isnae a possession, it's a pairt o Janis Joplin's spirit an it his a need tae drive.
Syne we're here, the car boot is, a bitty surprisinly, fu o Janis's stuff. Maistly claes, bit there's a mysterious medicine box in there an aw..
#scrievin #amEditin #Scots #fiction #novel

In #English Keri is saying:
I haven't seen my mum for years, she doesn't talk to me anymore. My Aunt was the person I kept in touch with.
Why? I'm a bit of a mess is why, but she's a bit dishonest too. We fell out after what happened to Ricky. She blamed me.
My Dad passed away a few years ago. He was no better than my ex, just ahead ov him. He drank himself to death.
#writing #amEditing #Scots #fiction #novel
#scrievin #scrievinWunners

#writingWonders
11.
Ma parents?
Ah havnae seen ma Ma fir years, she disnae talk tae us ony mair. Ma aunt wis the wan Ah kept in touch wi. How? Ah'm a bit ov a fuck up is how, bit she's a bit dishonest tae - we fell out efter whit happened tae Ricky. She blamed us.
Ma Da passed a few year ago. He wis nae better as that prick Ah left, jist aheid ov him. Drank hissel tae death.

#writing #amEditing #Scots #fiction #novel
#scrievin #scrievinWunners

#scrievin

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