Sheena Blackhall Poems

The Victorian era wis byordnar jeelin
Wi icicles hingin frae windaes an ceilin
Bit inside an office in thrang Lunnon toun
Wis the cauldest o chaumers in aa the warld roon
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Caledonia whyles rides on a kelpie's back
Mists in her hair, traffic aroon her feet
Her breists are Bens
Sna bree treetlin doon
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1: Moosie's Nest
Amang the hey, I fand girse in a baa
An powked it as I passed an gaed awa;
An fin I luiked I jealoused somethin steered,
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1.Nature Abhors a Vacuum (Aristotle)
In the wyme's chaumer
Velvet drapes wyte tae be swypit aside
Eftir the ficher o fore-play
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Are you a witch? Are you are fairy?
Are you the wife of Michael Cleary?

Once I was young and fair to see
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The whale entered the supermarket
At the height of the winter floods
When unspeakably murky waters
Blurred the edges of dry and water worlds
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What did the Chinese give to the world?
Abacus, bells and brandy
The calendar, compass, crossbow
Fireworks…the world's first whisky
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At the Conference of Scottish inventions
Dolly the sheep arrived, with hair new permed, blue rinsed

Ten Adhesive stamps were licking the boots
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Albanian dogs go ham ham ham
Catalan dogs go bup
Chinese dogs go wang wang wang
They learn it as a pup
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Feast your eyes on space, my friends
To Daveclark, Bonk and Tea
To Honda and Humptydumpty
Wanke and Seanconnery
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