Sheena Blackhall Poems

When I'd a cold, my granny said
Soak your feet in a mustard bath.
With a spoon of mustard powder stirred
In warm water to ease your cough
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1. A Walk in the Desert

I seldom speak of this
And not to strangers
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A Very Expensive Lamb
(£367,000 sheep is world's most expensive)

A Pedigree Texel wee lamb
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I am old. I have lost six teeth
From my shrunkengums
My breasts are shrivelled gourds
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This is a thriller
There is a baby, a cyclist
There is jealousy in the massage parlour
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Alice, a wife who was frigid
When her husband approached became rigid
Till he thought that she'd thawed
When she hissed and she clawed
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I was ten when I married
Just after my periods started
I was a woman now, my father said
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She bedd at the Slocks of Carvie
Nor' Wast o Morven Hill
A giantess o a wumman
A witch wi a witch's skill
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One girl, private school-pupil, made a stand,
The bus was full, no one gave up a seat
But her, a gesture kindly and unplanned
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1.Back o Bennachie

The peesie pipes her cloudy tune
Aroon the back o Bennachie
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