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Alden Nowlan’s Beard

Poems about Poetry / / by
The beard of Alden Nowlan is a Maritimes beard A Nova Scotia beard and a New Brunswick beard A beard wind-thinned and pain gurled With a beard like that  best not sleep on the rocky ground Well before morn it would grow into what it grew out of

Want to know more about this great Canadian Poet? https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/alden-nowlan

Once more, I used a word because it sounded right and looked it up after.

Gurl:

  1. (Scotland, Ireland) To growl or snarl. quotations ▲
    • 1834, Samuel Lover,  Legends and Stories of Ireland:The poor little doctor, thus rudely and suddenly aroused from his tipsy sleep, looked excessively bewildered when he opened his eyes, and met the glare of ferocious delight that Darby Kelleher cast upon him, and he gurled out, “What’s the matter?” as well as the grip of Darby’s hand upon his throat would permit him.
    • 1845, Alexander Wilson,  Poetical Works: With an Extended Memoir of His Life and Writings:“Weel may ye mind, yon night sae black, Whan fearfu’ winds loud gurled, And mony a lum dang down—and stack, Heigh i’ the air up swirled, Alangst yon brae, ye clam, and stack,