Sheena Blackhall Poems

1.Chanticleer’s Comb

Chanticleer’s comb is fiery red
Sixteen wives he takes to bed
Sixteen wives, each one with egg
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Ossi, youngest of six, all Catholic gypsies,
Travelled around in the family caravan
Spent winters in Vienna, round the campfires
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The Harry Potter Train et al (6 poems)

1: Animals at Large, Oban
The salmon farm looks like a wedding marquee tent
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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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1.Ahrweiler Cemetery
The leitmotif of my childhood's
Peeling stucco. The adults
I knew are as stuffed parrots now
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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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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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Sandalwood, myrtle, cypresses,
Sweet gum, laurel & olive groves
Oleander & dates and pines
Cross winged falcons & turtle doves
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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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