Sheena Blackhall Poems

When I walk on the sea, my stride is longer than Norway

Cruisers, tankers, frigates
Sail under my legs, tiny as tuna
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1.Tug of War
Dog, snapping at foam
Waves chasing its leaping paws
Sea’s wet tug of war
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1.The Brig
After The Scream, Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

Dae ye wauk forrit, or dae I step back?
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1.The Castlegate's Mary
The 7th panel carved at the top of the Mercat Cross in Aberdeen's Castlegate, is that of Mary Queen of Scots. After the Battle of Corrichie, Lord John Gordon was executed before Mary in Aberdeen.

Queen Mary views her subject in the toun
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1.The Gweedman's Craft

Shaman, seannachie, deevilock, Deil
Clootie, Hornie, shameless cheil
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1.Tree Circle

Blaik in the gloamin five derk trees
Gaither the hoodies tae their eaves
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1.At the Mools o Mill o Tifty's Annie: 15/5/2009

The kirkyaird steps are weet wi tummelt leaves
Untimely rived frae their boughs bi a roch win
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1.Daith o a Matriarch

She lay in her kist like a towrist packed fur leavin
Her single ticket stamped tae the warld o air
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1.Heistin the Deid
In 2007 archaeologists in Oseberg, southern Norway dug up a Viking queen, thought to be called Asa, after 1,200 years

In peetiless rain, in Oseberg, suddron Norwye
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1. The Gory Bells (Gorbals)
Folk shunned the lepers, at their coming, fled,
Hearing the ringing of the gory bells
When those poor creatures walked like the undead
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