The Loch Ness Monster’s Song by Edwin Morgan

Sssnnnwhuffffll?
Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl.
Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl –
gm grawwwww grf grawf awfgm graw gm.
Hovoplodok – doplodovok – plovodokot-doplodokosh?
Splgraw fok fok splgrafhatchgabrlgabrl fok splfok!
Zgra kra gka fok!
Grof grawff gahf?
Gombl mbl bl –
blm plm,
blm plm,
blm plm,
blp.

Read this in ‘A Poem for Every Night of the Year’ and just had to share!

About the Poet

Edwin Morgan (image by permission of www.edwinmorgan.com)

Summary

Born Glasgow, Edwin Morgan lived there all his life, except for service with the RAMC, and his poetry is grounded in the city.  Yet the title of his 1973 collection, From Glasgow to Saturn, suggests the enormous range of Morgan’s subject matter. He was Glasgow’s first Poet Laureate 1999-2002, and the first to hold the post of ‘Scots Makar’, created by the Scottish Executive in 2004 to recognise the achievement of Scottish poets throughout the centuries.

Click HERE to see his full bio.

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