Sheena Blackhall Poems

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First in the field of equine heroes, Bucephalas,
Steed of the Great Alexander, warrior chief
Next, Marengro, Napoleon's War Horse, an Arab Grey
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The exotic emperor with a love of jazz
Strolled down Sunset Boulevard chewing popcorn

No 1 concubine was a laughing girl
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Epitaph for Dr Colin Milton
An honest cheil has left this warld,
Tae wirk wi him wis pleisur:
Tae student, dominie alike
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After Poems in ‘Redemption' by Ananda, (the poet Stephen Parr)

When a loved one leaves forever
Like a remaindered book
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Burglars sniffed round their premises
Like opportunist mongrels
Fear raised the alarm, now screwed into the wall
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The Bonsai room lives only in my mind
For like a magpie, it steals many places
A temple bell sits by a Buddhist shrine
A moth rests there, the world has many faces
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Stevenson, marooned in a Highland cottage
On a wet and windy summer, lifted his pen

Were there midges?
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At the battle of Waterloo,
Two days torrential rain
Hammered into the ground.
Thunder & lightning
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Consider, all of the stars you watch on the silver screen
The Hollywood Greats, are immortalized on film
The dead are resurrected by flicking a switch
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His paintings in oils and watercolours
His medallions, speeches and trophies
His Chartwell House estate
His brood mares, followers, fillies.
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