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LIGHTNING AT NEW YEAR.
There's garraivery
up the road
in Tranent.
Doon the hatch!
Aye! We'll se whae's
a man o'straw!
Yer no a Belter less ye
gang agley.
So trochle hame scunnert
on the horns o'Demon Drink!
Spule-fittit an kindlike,
haughlin hame for spoliation
in the murder hours.
He wis mad as a hatter
oor carefree brither Ted.
Jist lumbered wi'
the gift o'the gab
and earmarked
for extinction.
How we loved him,
Celtic loresman,
Oh how we love him still
though donkey's years are passin
Since the Hagmana he
didnae appear.
Had haal
the happy memries
though...the man's alive an breathin'
in oor herts.
Weel folks!
Whiles maist worthies
are hauf-fu by now
the fairn-year all but gone
the Deil's toddy taks them tae
the New
in a dementation.
Soon there'll be
a flat spin
a'ower the place,
Aye,
Tranent at the buttock
o' the year! |
POEM IN SCOTS
About TED INGLE, famous poacher, storyteller and author of "POACHER'S PIE",who was murdered in Tranent a number
of years ago. His book, a collection of outrageous country tales, is on sale in East Lothian bookshops and newsagents. Ted
was Pat's much loved brother and a good friend of mine.
SCRUGGIE SCROGGET, a Celtic style poem for frightening little boys!
FOR NATHAN
The scruggie scrogget
scraggs the buttie boy-bo
it tweaks his lug and
pokes his wee broon een.
It pulls his hair
and nips his little cheekie
and makes him feel all horrible
Now scruggie scroggets pal
Big Wulf the bark-hound
he chases buttie boy-bo
up his tree
and says to scruggie scrogg-
we'll share the boy-bo...
the bottom half for you
the top for me!
John Lindsay 2000. |
WHO WERE THE CELTS?
We know for sure they became a literate, Christianised people with their own distinct art form. But they were quick to intermarry
with natives wherever they settled. The whole of Pictish culture was absorbed and modified by the Celts in Scotland and ancient
religious practices, myths and magic were fused with the new Christianity.It is also known that the Celts, reknowned as warriors
and migrants, were represented as far away as Anatolia, in the service of Byzantium and traces of them have been attributed
in India. Celtic culture has never died out and it is arguably one of the World's most enduring traditions. |
These days I'm part of the Prestoungrange and Three Harbours Art Festivals. or |
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