Sheena Blackhall Poems

She'd a laugh that bubbled like berries in the pan
She'd whalebone stays with salmon-gusset bloomers
She'd a smile as bright's the sun on a copper kettle
She prodded a mouth in the fire till it told stories
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A pair, like rhyming couplets,
Two poets roamed the fells
Sam C. saw magic visions
Whilst Will saw daffodils
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Four inches up the bath the water sits
Three towels laid out,
One on the floor in case her feet should slip.
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Every two-bit shyster wanting to take pot-shots at my city
Quotes this headline:
Titanic Sinks. Aberdeen Man is Drowned
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Cambridge is Brueghel's Village come to life
Warren of Gothic windows, red brick walls
Eating, laughing, drinking on the streets
Visitors throng the eateries and halls
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Madelina's more than two sharp eyes,
The shadows set in the cheek bones
Her hair's like seaweed
Swept by the tides of life
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John Logie Baird 1888-1946

Checking out the weather, the traffic or the news,
We switch on the TV for fun and current views
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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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⅔ + ⅝ = The Eiffel Tower
20% + 1,999 = A line of Washing
66% x 975 = Mohammed Ali’s boxer shorts
36+703-3 = Orange peel
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Mr. Pavlova’s Comb-Over

1.The Whirlwin
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