GloPoWriMo 2017 - day twenty-two

Today the prompt is to write a georgic. And no, I'm not going to tell you what one is!


In Orkney they . . .


The land is good, and most suitable
To cultivation, but wherever
I went it was terribly neglected
And underutilised.
The stock were not thriving
As they were let to roam
Freely and not fed.
The crops were sparse, and
Sown only for personal use.
But what else could you expect from
Such a lazy and slovenly race?

The words of Walter Scott do
not paint a happy picture of
the Orcadian isles that I know and
love, but then he was writing as
a rich man with all the benefit of
privilege and wealth.
And some of his ideas were
actually relatively sound.


(c) 2ndwitch, 22/04/17

GloPoWriMo 2017 - day fourteen

Today the challenge is to write a clerihew.


Running away from Waverley!

The young Walter Scott
When on holiday from court
Went to sea in the Pharos with a party of men
To view many lighthouses then back home again!

(And in doing so avoided the furore over the whether or not he wrote the Waverley novels!)

(c) 2ndwitch, 14/04/17