POEM TITLE
Riddle
POEM
Riddle
Find a Lobster Pot that’s warm and dry
and always full of welcome,
nautical yet never damp,
and run by folk with smeddum.
Find the Black that’s ever-bright,
the Ness and Sea now filmed and hailed.
Now rest up, refresh yourselves and solve
the riddle: the ship that never sailed.
The Judges have now produced the shortlist of the 12 poems going forward to the final announcement of the winners at the presentation on Friday 4th November at the Lobster Pot. People are expected to
Cats & Dugs Doon Blackness brae, thon castle, a big stane ship smirred in mist, slate-grey Firth snarlin at her knees. We could’ve happed-up, gallus agin the hurlin rain, or, stayed in the motor, hypn