Blinnd Moorie

Blinnd Moorie

Blinnd Moorie

Shetland poet Hannah Nicholson admires and navigates a blinnd moorie or fall of fine powdery snaw glad at last to be ben the hoose and warm.

Blinnd Moorie
by Hannah Nicholson

Ootside is laek a blank page
Whan I raise me idda moarneen,
An da flakes whirls doon
First in a flukra, den a blinnd moorie.
I wear me winter claes
Laek saft, cosy armour,
Second an third skeens
Ageenst da winter shooers.
I step oot idda front door
An hear da scrunchin
O da fresh poodir
Anunder me feet, curl
Me taes tight inside me buits,
An me fingers tight
Inside me mittens.
Da snowy shooer
Is still batterin awa
As I win tae da paet shed,
An I fin mesel feelin blyde
At I dinna hae tae geng
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Ony farder da day,
I look forwird tae bidin cosy
Afore da rayburn idda hoose.