Sheena Blackhall Poems

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191.
Grandmother

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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192.
Coleridge And Wordsworth

A pair, like rhyming couplets,
Two poets roamed the fells
Sam C. saw magic visions
Whilst Will saw daffodils
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193.
Old Woman's Bath Time Ritual

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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194.
Titanic Sinks: Aberdeen Man Is Drowned

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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195.
Cambridge

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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196.
All This And More

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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197.
Seven Scottish Inventions

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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198.
Four Glasgow Poems

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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199.
For People Who Hate Maths

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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200.
Twenty Eight Bairn Rhymes (Mr Pavolva)

Mr. Pavlova’s Comb-Over

1.The Whirlwin
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