Sheena Blackhall Poems

It takes 35 minutes to travel the Channel Tunnel
24 miles under murky fathoms of deep
Napoleon would have loved this foxy link
...

I do not jeer at squirrels
Or peel frogs out of their jumpsuits

I do not throw stones at angels
...

They led the strange one into the woods
To the tree that stands like a twisted snake
And the hawthorn bush it tore his skin
But never a sound did the strange one make
...

1.The Robin(A Scots Owersett o the poem bi John Clare)

Noo the snaa haps the grun, far the wee birdies flee
Tae the but an the ben for wee crummles tae pree
...

As I walked along the shore of the Irish Sea
Up he rose from the water, uninvited
My husband, young as a rowan sprig in flower
Having left his gun on the ground of Ulster's troubles
...

9 Wee Poems

1.God's Wellies
...

1. An Inside Job (1)

‘And only click the switch, when you hear sound'
The audiologist said.
...

I close my eyes. I walk a river bed,
Around my calves, each wave gleams like a fin
I am a child again, unwooed, unwed
...

Alum, dog turd, piss, egg, lime
Shakespeare's father was a glover
Lambskin kid and deer he used
To fashion gloves of finest leather
...

Have you ever shared a table
Dribbling, drooling a succession
Of platitudes, as monkeys grunt
Whilst sociably delousing?
...