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Today is - someone's just told me - National Poetry Day. So if you've got a poem of your own, or a bit of someone else's, let's be having you. I like MacDiarmid's rambling epic, which is too long to post here...A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, so here's an extract.

Post them on your own blog or as Comments here.

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
by Hugh MacDiarmid

The munelicht's like a lookin-glass,
The thistle's like mysel,
But whaur ye've gane, my bonnie lass,
Is mair than I can tell.

Were you a vision o mysel,
Transmutted by the mellow liquor?
Neist time I I glisk you in a glass,
I'se warrant I'll mak siccar.

A man's a clean contrairy sicht,
Turned this way in-ootside,
And, fegs, I feel like Dr. Jekyll
Tak'n guid tent o Mr. Hyde...

Gurly thistle - hic - you canna
Daunton me wi your shaggy mien,
I'm sair - hic - needin a shave,
That's plainly to be seen.

But what aboot it - hic - aboot it?
Mony a man's been that afore.
It's no a fact that in his lugs
A wund like this need roar!...

Thanks to Caoimh铆n 脫 Donna铆le in Skye who has sent me a long list of Gaelic Bloggers, some write in Gaelic-English, most only in Gaelic and one who speaks "Swedish, German, English, G脿idhlig, some Norwegian and Danish, I understand written Italian and Icelandic but I cannot speak them".

Some are based in America and some in Sweden, its a mixed bag which you may (or may not) understand:











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An update on gaelic bloggers internationalism from Kevin in Skye: "I have been updating my

"There's some amazing stuff there. A new blog in fluent G脿idhlig by a girl in Almaty, Kazakhstan who has been learning on her own with the help of the Internet for two years (Another blog with lots of stuff in fluent G脿idhlig by a learner in Berlin ().

We've got and a new prize.

In collaboration with the we are giving away copies of 'Jura, Language and Landscape' published by House of Lochar, Isle of Colonsay.

Send us your photies and win this great prize.

After Island Wanderer's bout of original poetry, thought I'd mention Radio Scotland's search for your favourite Scottish poem. Launched on National Poetry Day, 6 October they'll be collecting your entries until St Andrew's Day on the 30 November.

They say: "By taking part you'll automatically be entered into a prize draw with the chance to win a beautiful book of Scottish poetry - Edinburgh Book of Twentieth Century Poetry (edited by Maurice Lindsay and Lesley Duncan)."



Looking for inspiration? See

Can I say a warm welcome to all the new bloggers from Skye, and ask them all to email us at islandblogging@bbc.co.uk to complete their registration? You'll be sent out a pack and put on our newsletter list.

My suggestions is to take a look at the House Rules and have a look at what the other bloggers have been on about, test out loading a photo and editing and customising your personal section (on the right) till your happy with it.

I'm having a great time in Skye, which I haven't been to in years. It was lashing down all yesterday, glorious and warm today. I'll post my photos when I'm back tomorrow.


Mike

Just came down from the Isle of Skye...not very big (okay sorry about that).

Great to meet people at Sabhal M貌r Ostaig, what a place! If you havn't been you should go, amazing location overlooking the Sound of Sleat and great architecture. Eilean Iarmain at Ornsay was glorious (!)

Here's some pics from the trip, featuring heavily the road between Broadford and Portree...