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Due to it's prominent display at Edinburgh airport the phrase "Mad God" will always make me think of this poem: But Edinburgh is a mad god's dream Fitful and

Due to it's prominent display at Edinburgh airport the phrase "Mad God" will always make me think of this poem: But Edinburgh is a mad god's dream Fitful and dark, Unseizable in Leith And wildered by the Forth, But irresistibly at last Cleaving to sombre heights Of passionate imagining Till stonily, From soaring battlements, Earth eyes Eternity. Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978): "Edinburgh"

bshimmin 5y ago
I can't really think of Scottish poetry these days without remembering William McGonagall. Here's his incomparable "The Tay Bridge Disaster": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tay_Bridge_Disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tay_Bridge_Disaster
- sprkwd 5y ago
  Pure classic.