Sheena Blackhall Poems

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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Around me lie my farming ancestors
We are united, kith and kin together
They are beyond life's sorrows and its pleasures
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The Mushroom Poem
Amethyst deceiver, the miller, the blusher
Ox's tongue, Jew's ear, lawyer's wig
Pied de mouton, chicken of the woods
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This poem is based on the recollections of an eye witness called Leboucher, who arrived in Paris from Bourges in December,1792, and was present at the execution of Louis XVI. In 1840 he recounted to Victor Hugo most of these details.

The Execution of Louis XVI
In the Year II of the Republic, on a bitter winter's day
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Spell 125 from the Book of the Dead.
Gaun forrit intae the traivels o the deid
Yer life an deeds are judged bi the god Osiris
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The Wound of Grief has many Mouths
See what you miss by being dead?
You could have been drinking beer in the warm sun
You could have been singing your favourite, Country Roads
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