Cree Lines - Stravaiger’s Rest
This huge piece of granite sits by the side of the A75. It seemed a good place for a poem for travellers or Stravaiger’s and it’s written in Scots. Scots is spoken, alongside English, by many Galloway people. Kye are cattle, and ‘gan thir slow gait’ means ‘going their slow way.’ Cars and lorries thunder past this spot either going west, possibly to catch the ferry to Ireland, or heading east, possibly to England or further into Europe. After all, the road is classed as a Euroroute. Many travellers stop for a while at the lay-by, and this poem reminds them of the Cree nearby, how many things have remained the same in nature but how transport has altered so much. Finally, it bids them well on their journey.
From ‘Cree Lines’ by Liz Niven. Part of the Newton Stewart poetry river walk. Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Cree Lines - Stravaiger’s Rest
This huge piece of granite sits by the side of the A75. It seemed a good place for a poem for travellers or Stravaiger’s and it’s written in Scots. Scots is spoken, alongside English, by many Galloway people. Kye are cattle, and ‘gan thir slow gait’ means ‘going their slow way.’ Cars and lorries thunder past this spot either going west, possibly to catch the ferry to Ireland, or heading east, possibly to England or further into Europe. After all, the road is classed as a Euroroute. Many travellers stop for a while at the lay-by, and this poem reminds them of the Cree nearby, how many things have remained the same in nature but how transport has altered so much. Finally, it bids them well on their journey.
From ‘Cree Lines’ by Liz Niven. Part of the Newton Stewart poetry river walk. Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.