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Existential paraglidin in Turkey

Christine De Luca

Tinkin on da haert’s topography
– heichts wir climmed, jimpit aff a,
aa but miracklin wirsels,
brinks o banks wir teetered apön –
wir blyde da day we hae na da pooster
fur paraglidin. Da aeriel photos
takk wir braeth awa, shaa
da hale pictir. Aert-fast, wir laerned
da bird’s-eye view da herd wye,
bit bi bit, graftin a life tagidder,
backwirds, makkin hit fit.


Christine De Luca

Reproduced by permission of the author.

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earth from above flying Shetlandic

About this poem

Glossary
tinkin on - thinking about; heichts - heights; wir - we have, we are, our; climmed - climbed; jimpit - jumped; aff a - off: miracklin - severely injuring; wirsels - ourselves; banks - cliffs; apön - on; blyde - glad; da day - today; hae - have; na - not; pooster - vigour; takk - take; awa - away; shaa - show; hale - whole; aert-fast - firmly fixed in earth; herd - hard; wye - way; tagidder - together; makkin - making

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Christine De Lucab.1947

Christine De Luca is a Shetland writer now living in Edinburgh. She writes her poetry in English and in Shetlandic, her mother tongue. She was appointed Edinburgh's Makar for 2014-2017.
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