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McLellan Competition Winners

Categorised in: Poetry

The winners of the McLellan Award 2007 have now been announced. The first prize was awarded to Sheila Templeton (for 'Ripening'), followed by Kenneth Steven as second prize (for 'The Illuminated Manuscript'), while the third prize went to Nick McKinnon (for 'At the A&B'). The SLC haes thought good to reproduce the winning entry here.
Ripening
In green rodden time
I wanted to be you.
Scarted my knee
on reuch scabbit bark,
stapped my pockets
wi hard berries praying
you'd run oot o supplies
an need mine.
You made planes wi balsa
an gaudy coloured tissue,
wheeched a sharp propeller
makkin contact wi the wind,
file I held the hint o the twine,
Seely tae chitter, ice-tangled
File you ignore me.
Aenoo, rodden branches
hing hunnerwechted, dairk
ripened, riddy for pickin.
Saft crame flesh, nae use
for the games we played
lang syne.
And I'm ower thrang
tae help flee your plane.
Thrang rubbin bricht berries
atween my finger-eyns,
slowly staining my lips
tae silk in the munelicht,
waitin for you tae land.