THIS poem comes from well known Indy Supporter Dr Alf Baird. I had no idea this talented man had poetic skills as well until he sent me this earlier this week.

Doun Hauden

By Alf Baird

Bourdieu telt us, oor cultur’s the ki

We lairn oor cultur as bairns, on grannies knee

Anely tae forfaut thon in colonial schuils

Creenge’s aw aboot! Tho A’m nae fuil

Langage is the verra foond o cultur

Oor braw Scots langage comes fae the hert, no yon gutter

We’re makkit Englis tae get on, Anglo bools in yer mooth

Yet ma mither tongue is nivver fae sooth

Croods o Scots cast oot thair ain laund

Supplantit bi yon Anglophone meritocratic baund

Thay fowk cruin the union pairty sang 

Mak shuir o Scots leid’s deith stang                     

Frantz Fanon wad hiv nae doot

Scotlan’s a donsie wee colonie, its teas nar oot

Juist lyke in India, Kenya or Algeria

Elite’s wrack native cultur, makkit gae heeligoleerie

Naitional consciousness isnae nationalism

Scots appen yer een, kest oot thon tirranies

Englan’s Anschluss, A Scotlan dashelt

A Union wi nae veto, Scots dae whit yer telt!

Estaiblishment Scotlan, A joub mankit cesspit

Thay haud doon oor ain fowk, maks loass o speerit

Dicht claen Scotlan’s maukit unionist slump

Kest oot thon British yoke, thay can tak a lang hyke

Thon Union Treaty’s a muckle fankle

Sovereignty aye haundit tae a bunkle

Maks Scotlan a wee pouerless colonie

‘Leeberty’ fowk cry, let’s awa fi sic joukerie

Cultur gies us belangin an naitional identitie

Denee’d o yer leid, Scots rind duffie

Colonised fowk aye quaisten thair wirth

Ethnic doun-hauden maks Scots aflocht

Sel-determination’s oor richt, on Scots Claim therrs nae dout

Bewaur tratours, deceiverie an clout

An ivery day mair Anglophones muve in aw the whill

Stowenlins Scottish soveranety, if ye staun by – tak it thay wull

The Online Scots Dictionary – The Online Scots Dictionary (scots-online.org)

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