My Desert Island Book Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

My Desert Island Book



If you read the dictionary
as much as I do,
you'll see that many winds have names.
The north-easterly
coming from Greece
is named the Italian word 'gregale'.
It's not English 'regale' with a 'g' in front:
the 'a' sort of sounds like 'AH'
and you say 'e'1 and 'e'2
sort of like the 'ay' in 'bay'.
The whole wind
sort of sounds 'gray-gAH-lay'.

My Desert Island Book
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Topic(s) of this poem: sound,best friend,name,wind
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
1.10.21. The Gregale (Catalan: Gregal, Italian: Grecale, Lombard: Grecal, Maltese: Grigal, Occitan: Gregau, Greek: Γραίγος, Graigos) is a Mediterranean wind that can occur during times when a low-pressure area moves through the area to the south of Malta and causes a strong, cool, northeasterly wind to affect the island. It also affects other islands of the Western Mediterranean. The italian name 'Grecale' could be translated as Greek wind, as the wind starts at the Ionian Island Zakynthos.
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Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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