EUNICEBuchanan of Arbroath brings this selection of McCash Scots Poetry Competition winners to a close with her light-hearted response to this year's theme, Now Then.
She too won £150.
NOO THEN
Let me tell ye.
This nicht thir's tae be
a lunar eclipse.
At hauf nine the muin
wull turn bluid reid.
Thoosand o years ago the dinosaurs
wid no hae seen a bluid reid muin.
Can ye no see them?
Munchin awa
streetchin thir lang necks,
gawpin at yon siller disc.
Nae bluid reid muin.
Nae signs o disaster.
Let me tell ye.
At the rate o fower centimetre a year
the muin is smoolin awa
its magnetic link gawn
tae potterneshan.
Suin she'll cast aff, slide awa in full rig,
flochter like a grey moch atween
Mars an Jupiter an syne
be gone.
Tides wull gie up
new rhymes wull be fund fir Juin
Female cycles wull free-wheel
an lunacy wull be gone
furriver.
Aye.
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