Tentative Beginning

I have a bit of a tendency to write in rhyme - and sometimes even quite strict metre. Not very fashionable but a difficult habit to kick.  Sometimes the results are quite entertaining.  Here is one I made recently.  Let me know what you think.  If you like it I might post some more:

LEAVING SCOTLAND

England’s smaller, fiercer brother

Jam and scones baked by your mother–

A land that bare-foot bairns have trod on

Invented everything that’s modern

Telephone and television

Head and shoulders of Great Britain

Rabbie Burns, McGonagal,

Hume and Adam Smith and all

Pie and chips – a smell to savour

Watch your step – I kent yer faither

Enterprising sons and daughters

Emigrated over waters

Endless scattering diaspora

Return for Eck’s homecoming fiasco

Decked from top to toe in tartan

A sight to horrify or hearten?

Religion – divided - sabbatarian

Now it’s football that’s sectarian

Grouse moors, ghillies, class division

Land of banks and socialism

Financiers gambling on a hunch

Bonuses and  credit crunch.

Gaelic songs and lamentations

An NHS run for the patients

Cuts through self destructive habits

Death deferred by pills and tablets

The smokers and the alcoholics

Ceilidhs, dances, reels and frolics

Love affair with rocks and heather

Ae fond kiss and then we sever.

Louise Ramsay