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🐸 Burds, Baists and Bugs: Wildlife Poems in Scots 🦉

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Scots: An Eydent Bumbee
English: An Industrious Bumblebee

Folk, when ye’re hikin, tak a vizzy
At hou this craitur’s ayeways busy.
It couldnae work a better gig!
It’s wee, but whit it does is big.

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On yonder hill,
there stood a coo.
It must have gone,
it's no there noo.
#ScotsPoetry

Part 50 in a continuing series of sketches of Scots poets

This is Hugh MacDiarmid 1892 to 1978
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I love this moving #poem by #LynnValentine, a #Scottish #poet (here writing in English but do check out her #ScotsPoetry) about the damaging legacy of #war.

https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/lynn-valentine/

#ScottishPoetry #WarPoetry #grandfather #poetry #InkSweatAndTears

Lynn Valentine | Ink Sweat and Tears

I'm a Scots language author fer weans (amang other hings) Nip Nebs wis published in 2017 and Nip Nebs and the Last Berry wis published in 2019. Baith books were illustrated by Ruthie Redden and published by Curly Tale Books. The latest yin Wheesht wis published in 2022 by Foggie Toddle Books and illustrated by Will Gorman. They were aw shortlisted fer Scots Bairns' Book o the Year at the Scots Language Awards.
www.susibriggs.co.uk

#ScotsLanguage #ScotsPoetry #ScotsAuthor #BookWeekScotland

An bit bi bit they luft their heids
An witness aw the wunnerous breeds
Athort the lea, that diverse,
The tootin herds o the fediverse!

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Guid tae see sae monie familiar phissogs ower here noo!

A guess thit tae get aab'dy stertit we aw reblog an ⭐️ wan anither's intros & wark sae we fin wan anither an fin new fowk an aw 🌝

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