Sheena Blackhall Poems

The Spikk o the Nor East Leid
The Romans focht at Bennachie gainst Calcagus chief o a clan
His name hid reets in Celtic lore, a legendary brave swordsman
Eumenius in the third century, caad North East tribesmen the Picti
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What Unseen Sorrow lies in waiting?
What unseen sorrow lies in waiting?
A shadow stretches on the lawn
Have I regrets? Yes, far too many
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Carpe Diem
In Afghanistan, a group of men
Are playing Buzkashi
Players on horseback or yak
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The bird of ill omen
Began with a fever
Shaking all over
Head, on fire
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My father
His marriage was consanguineous
Wedlock, a double blood knot
He sired two legitimate children
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Fower Poems: Efter James Robertson's Stories in his buik 365

Jack the Suitor
Aince Jack set aff tae fin a wife
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Now the war drums beat in wintry Ukraine
Will the blood lust spread like a crimson stain?
Make Europe a charnel house again?
In the insane greed for power
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The Romany: Wild Caravanning with Daisy: Jackie Henderson
Daisy tells fortunes. Sees futures
A real clairvoyant
7th daughter of a 7th daughter
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The Snaa Kirk: After Ballater in Snow: David Smith RSW
Can be sung to the tune of the 19th century Welsh Ballad St Denio, (converted to a hymn by Walter C. Smith b. Aberdeen 1824

Stinch kirk in the clachan, stauns happit in snaa,
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Have a nice day
A tsunami of builders are bricking over woodlands
Badgers eat poisoned bait- hear their death throes
Deer race from islands of trees to shrinking copses
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