Sheena Blackhall Poems

A pity the Pompeiians didn't read the signs
Things had been building up for a while
I suddenly reached boiling point
Blew my top
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Flagellation or hair shirts
Marathons are all the rage
London Marathon ‘22
Release the fruitcakes from the cage
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The web is awash with love songs
Poets thrash out a tsunami of testaments to amour

Go into Asda on February 15th
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What goes on in that swamp of your mind…
Remembering your first fang-bite?
Doesn't it give you the heebie-geebies?
Doesn't it ever bore you, that diet of blood?
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The Wildcat/ Cat-fiadhaich
Fierce of fang, she hisses, sharp of claw
Rarer than Bengal tiger, see her creep.
She is a huntress, true to nature's law
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Great Michael took tons of timber in the making
All the woods of Fife, bar that of Falkland
Imported wood from Norway
Forests cut from other parts of Scotland,
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Aiberdeen 2023
It's Mey in Aiberdeen, the Castlegate.
Ootside Archie Simpsons, fowk sit at tables
On the street, boozin in the pleisunt, buttery sun
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I've been around since 2500 BC
Built on the orders of the pharaoh Khafre

It took 100 workers three excruciating years
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Non, rien de rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait
Ni le mal, tout ça m'est bien égal
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Mary X gets lost in conversation
She can't recall her daughter Julie's name
She'll start a task and struggle to complete it
Muninn, the lack of memory's to blame
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