Poetic Response

I wrote the following poem in response to The Bonnie Broukit Bairn by Hugh MacDiarmid. As the original poem is written in Scots, I used the opportunity to experiment using Dundonian, my native tongue - though I don't have much of an accent.

Is'nae Bonnie Dundee

Muckle blae blanket watters,

Hunners aw wee emerald farests,

The fest hum o nae’er-boredom,

Listen tae the tak of wir hame,

Cause a pity ye rocks wit nae life,

Am Earth, nae a pair sowel!

A will’nae weep ya glaikit bastard

Cause am nae a feardie.

How did I do? It was a struggle utilising native words that I don't commonly use, and I could not make the poem rhyme, but I'm not disappointed in the outcome.

How do you find writing in dialects?