Sheena Blackhall Poems

Braemar
You are a disastrous honeymoon
The groom, hungover, the bride
Tossing a coin. Heads, to stay
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Ballaterach
Wee Geordie Byron
Ran aboot the braes
Prood as a pertrick
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Souterrain, Tulloch
The wind flows gently from the river bank
Lapping the edge of buried history,
A shell of darkness, leading underground
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The Ig Nobel Prize
The Ig Nobel Prize is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research, its stated aim being to 'honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.' The Ig Nobels were created in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor and co-founder of the Annals of Improbable Research, a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Irreproducible Results. Examples range from the discovery that the presence of humans tends to sexually arouse ostriches, to the statement that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements for being the location of Hell. The winners are taken from the web.

Poems on Ig Nobel Prize Winners
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The voices from the heads had nought to say,
Wallace & Cromwell set high on a stalk
Like grisly flowers, their bodies cut away!
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America's attic has squirreled away
Ruby slippers and shrunken heads,
Dinosaur poo &poison darts
Sick bags, gallstones, insect eggs
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Plane crash, train smash
River swallow drown
Skull bash croc splash
Winding sheet gown
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Bee-nuzzled, scents arise from honeysuckle
And bands of beautiful forgetmenots
A shower of beech leaves, drop a waterfall
Midgies in clouds drift by in hazy dots
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The Keeper of the Heads
The voices from the heads had nought to say,
Wallace & Cromwell set high on a stalk
Like grisly flowers, their bodies cut away!
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Clootie Tree
Clootie tree, clootie tree, hingin wi wishes
Preened there bi fowk like a sea-fu o fishes
Gie me a cat wi a wee siller bell
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