Earnock

I found something pretty cool... My youngest daughter is doing a family tree project for her English class. She's researching about my grandfather.   It turns out he was born in a little place called Earnock.   It is an area south of Hamilton in Lanarkshire, Scotland.   As it seems, the area where he was born has disappeared.  They have named areas of Hamilton after Earnock, but it appears Earnock is a field on an old estate now.

 

What does this have to do with poetry, you ask?

 

Well, in my research to find out more about this missing town, I found a poem that the poet wrote using the dialect from the area.  It is really cool!  You should go read it just to try and sound it out.  It’s fun just to read it out loud!

 

http://www.poetryofscotland.co.uk/Other/inmemoryofearnockbing.php

 

Here is a small section that I stole from the website, but for all I know I could be related to this fellow.

Dear Earnock bing where ur ye noo
Wher’ever did ye go
Scattered to the winds, ah think
Ah’ ken ah miss ye so.

Oh Earnock bing my Everest,
It's time to say fareweel
Ah wont forget ye ever
Fareweel! Fareweel! Fareweel!!!

Pretty  cool, huh?

Punctuation and Enjambment

This poetry thing is pretty fun.  I put something down but it feels incomplete.  The Teach says that it’s “pretty good for an engineer.”  The she dropped these two new ideas on me and we read another poem. 

1. Punctuation:  Used to create silence and pauses and to give moments to think.
2. Enjambment:  Don’t finish a thought on one line.  Finish it on the next.  But it also has something to do with pushing the thought forward and drawing it back.  I get the principle.  I just don’t know how to word it.

From what I understand these are going to help me paint a better picture in one of the sections of my poem.

I don’t know how to word this yet, but I’ll eventually figure it out.

Here is another problem I am having.   My brain never quits.  I have many passions, many things that interest me.  I am finding myself trying to figure out something else to write about.  I want to write about something else too.

What else could I write about?