faddoms

A kite with the image of a cartoon dragon flies across the blue sky.

Read and listen to the poem in Shetlandic Scottish below. Scroll down to read the modern English translation.

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faddom du dis fur me
da lies o da feddir
maunna makk
da sun stop burnin

run oot o fingirs
and du’ll wakk intae taes
wi’r aa riggit oot
fur da biggest gaem
du nivvir hed a chance in

we come ta lippin
green girse
wi da shadoos
maddenin da brunt lugs

whit geengs doon
maun come back up agien
but …

by Christie Williamson | February 23, 2024

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