BCs in Poetry

[Jenny Holden]

I wasn't sure where to post this, but I thought it has something to do with culture!

I really like this poem, written in Cumbrian (that's the Lake District, North West England), about a shepherd talking to and about his sheepdog.

If you need a translation let me know!

 

Jenny

 

Very proud to be one of the few Cumbrians left who can actually speak Cumbrian )

 

 

 

 

MEG

by James Little, Caldbeck YFC

　

Nobbut bout it t'other day

Ha way, gan owt, ga by.

I thowt she's cheap, sit down an stay

Dista fancy she's got much of an eye.

Meg comebye comebye to me

Good dog, good dog ha way,

Noo divven't just hide ahint that tree

Git oot, sit doon and stay....

　

Here to me noo that's the style

Creep around every lamb.

She'll m'be gar bye if I put on a smile

Divven't showt and flair her back yam.

Come in t' me lass gotta be mad

Quietly, t'me slowly come here.

There's nee need t' look se painfully sad

I think y' far owr dear.

　

Feckless larl bitch scratch her lug

Better git a pocket o'steanes.

Beginning t' think it's me that's the mug

Thous pout but skin an' byones.

Yance mare, afower we both give up

Git oot y' brainless hoond,

She's off, she's away she's cowped the tup

Hiv y' iver heard seck a soond.

　

Shut up, git doon, leave them be

Thy'll be kessen all owr tha hill

Meg sit doon, come in to me

Or I'll larrup ya so help me I will, I will.

Sit doon, sit doon y' hopeless case

Thow thinks it's just bloody fun,

But I'm telln'y noo git that smile off ya faece

Or I'll gar back yam for the gun.

 

Stop poap'n aboot an git in a'hint

Thoo'l hadter wark some day

Gut doon thow dozy bint

Oh bugger, she's ran away, ran away....... !

[Smokjbc]

Great poems... I like his frustration (I think LOL) and they read alot like "training poems" as opposed to the usually romantic type (which I like also).

 

In fact, except for the fact that we have no trees in Nevada to hide behind - and unless I'm losing the translation- my own training session with my Jane yesterday sounds alot like Meg in the first peom (maybe she'll go by if I put on a smile!?)> lol.