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Document 1484

Haikus posted between 22 July 2006 and 30 July 2006

Author(s): John McDonald

Copyright holder(s): John McDonald

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Sunday, July 30, 2006

sica quate muir
twa deuks squaik:
smitches yondermaist

such a silent moor
two ducks squawk:
dots on the horizon


Saturday, July 29, 2006

ma blin neebor
fingers ilka new blume
...an smirks

my blind neighbour
fingers each new bloom
...and smiles


pouin snail
frae ma door -
his glisterin fuit

prising snail
from my door -
his glistening foot


airlie brakfast
clockers skelterin
aw bit yin...hirplin nou

early breakfast
cockroaches scuttling
except one...limping now


drucken lauchter
tassies fleet i the puil
saiklessness
o a new muin's lip

drunken laughter
cups float in the pool
pureness
of a new moon's edge


a perfit raing
o ill-colourit girse -
riven posters

a perfect circle
of discoloured grass -
torn posters


swaws rattlin
owre the herbour waa -
maw flees...gaes naewey

waves crashing
over the harbour wall -
gull flies...goes nowhere


ah...yince mair
the fume o buddleia -
simmer nivver foryets

ah...once more
the fragrance of buddleia -
summer never forgets


Friday, July 28, 2006

kintra kirk
hamelt lairstanes
pent-rins

country church
home-made headstones
paint-runs


nuin het
three tikes ligg
daffin i thair drames

noon heat
three dogs lie
chasing their dreams


Thursday, July 27, 2006

blithefou skirls
frae the puil -
the mither's tirr owre
...the noo

joyous squeals
from the pool -
the mother's tantrums over
...for the moment


bein duntit
bi bummers an butteries -
buddleia in blume

being bumped
by bees and butterflies -
buddleia in bloom


Wednesday, July 26, 2006

on the gean
a saicont flourishin -
bindweed tooters

on the cherry tree
a second blossoming -
bindweed trumpets


Tuesday, July 25, 2006

scuil-yetts lockfast
derk winnocks
a bangster's bleck-ee - lang syne

school-gates chained
dark windows
a bully's black-eye - long ago


a fire-flaucht
owre the firth
jaup o the watter

a shooting-star
over the estuary
slap of the water


aw day
reddin rods
bi nicht a soutar

all day
scything roads
by night a shoemaker


Saturday, July 22, 2006

liggin amang
biddy-bottles' sheddaes
jakies blithe i the sin

lying amongst
wine-bottles' shadows
winos enjoying the sun


jazz session -
sparks jinkin
doon the lozen

jazz session -
raindrops ziggzagging
down the pane


mawin -
dugwuid flourish
doon ma neck

mowing -
dogwood blossom
down my collar

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Information about Document 1484

Haikus posted between 22 July 2006 and 30 July 2006

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Text audience

General public
Audience size 100+

Text details

Method of composition Wordprocessed
Year of composition 2006
Word count 378
General description Haikus in Scots / Lallans, with translation in Scottish English

Text medium

Web (webpages, discussion boards, newsgroups, chat rooms)

Text publication details

Published
Publication year 2006
Place of publication zenspeug.blogspot.com
Part of larger text
Contained in Weblog at http://zenspeug.blogspot.com

Text setting

Leisure/entertainment

Text type

Poem/song/ballad

Author

Author details

Author id 1069
Forenames John
Surname McDonald
Gender Male
Decade of birth 1930
Educational attainment Highers/A-levels
Age left school 15
Upbringing/religious beliefs Protestantism, conv. To Catholicism, interest in Buddhism
Occupation Stone-mason
Place of birth Lairg
Region of birth Sutherland
Birthplace CSD dialect area Suth
Country of birth Scotland
Place of residence Edinburgh
Region of residence Edinburgh
Residence CSD dialect area Edb
Country of residence Scotland
Father's occupation Motor Mechanic
Father's place of birth Watten
Father's region of birth Caithness
Father's birthplace CSD dialect area Cai
Father's country of birth Scotland
Mother's occupation Shopworker
Mother's place of birth Strathkyle
Mother's region of birth Ross
Mother's birthplace CSD dialect area Ross
Mother's country of birth Scotland

Languages

Language Speak Read Write Understand Circumstances
English Yes Yes Yes Yes Daily life
Scots Yes Yes Yes Yes Where required

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