Sheena Blackhall Poems

A multi-storey frog menage a trois
(Erotic reptilian sandwich)
Squats on the sand,
Locked in a Dionysian mystery.
...

I am sleeping as fast as I can,
So as not to wear out the pillow.

Pillows are precious;
...

Theresienstadt Burial Scene

Inspired by Drawing 15: Burial Scene (at Terezin 1941, aged 9) Karel Sattler, born 16/11/1932. Died in the camps
...

The ice melts, Scotland rises from the sea
The wildwood and its fauna, first arrive
The Barn’s Ness house, East Lothian, is built
Broch, Cairn, and Roman ruins still survive
...

1. A Puckle Hoolets


Tawny Hoolet
...

1.Humpty Dumpty

At a gaitherin o the glitterati,
Efter the raw salmon wis communin
...

1.The Daith o Merlin

The wizard, Merlin, dreed his weird
In Stobo, ower the altarstane
...

1.YOWE'S LOVE POEM TAE THE RAM

Yer een are like the hardest neep
Yer powe's as fair's a dyke
...

1.THE WIZARD O THE NORTH.

There is a wizard in the North
He makks a magic brew
...

1.A Song of Two Islands

Neep an tattie, ingin, leek
Frost pits roses in yer cheek
...