Sheena Blackhall Poems

The Diocese Meeting
Before the interview begins
Before we call him in
I'll share surveillance findings
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Light Bites
Two customers in hijabs
Clear a table of someone else's detritus
Making a space for a disabled son,
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Autumn IX
Yestreen I heard a birdie sing
Inbye a bonnie beech tree hedge
As if it didnae ken nor care
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Doric Owersett of the anon. ballad Mad Maudlin's Search
Chorus,
Still I sing bonny loons, bonny gyte loons
Fur Bedlam loons are bonny
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Willie Wonka who'd have thought it!
Dark chocolate assists heart health
It lowers blood pressure, lessons clotting
It fights diabetes, welfare wealth
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Goldilocks
The original tea-leaf,
Rat-bag, greedy little guzzleboots
She crunched bits of the father's muesli
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Rooms
The sourest room was coastal.
Stank of the sea
The landlord was a lascivious OAP
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Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond has a wave wioot a win
A fish wioot a fin an a floatin island
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James VI
A dysfunctional family set up by any standards.
His parents were cousins. His father, Henry
Had his mother's secretary murdered before her eyes
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Dementia
Dementia never has a kind conclusion
There is no magic cure, no healing dose
It twists the brain, tricks memories and emotions
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