Sheena Blackhall Poems

A multi-storey frog menage a trois
(Erotic reptilian sandwich)
Squats on the sand,
Locked in a Dionysian mystery.
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I am sleeping as fast as I can,
So as not to wear out the pillow.

Pillows are precious;
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Theresienstadt Burial Scene

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

I micht be Nelson, turning a blin ee
tae the day's semaphore,
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1.THE SINGING BIRD

A birdie flichters oot an in
The open doorway o its cage.
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1. Gowd
Dwined till a dwaum yon moss-green kindly een,
His sang that raise as a shout
Fin his warld wis young, crined till a myowt
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1.A Song of Two Islands

Neep an tattie, ingin, leek
Frost pits roses in yer cheek
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Where does the PM stay in London?
When did Guy Fawkes plant his bomb?
Which percentage of Brits use drugs?
Where do Cockney speakers come from?
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1.Sea Memorial
Slippin intae Fittie in the dreich sea haar
Twa score o whalermen, taigles in their hair
Langsyne they perished ower the herbour bar
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