Sheena Blackhall Poems

You crossed the bridge too soon
Who would have thought one room
Could hold such pain?
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It rests beside my heart. I keep it warm
Your baby-hair. I rub it like a charm
To plug the dam of tears from spilling down
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Huge juggernauts of oil ships
Cast garish lights over a black sea

The map of my city has changed
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A thousand years old, Major Oak has stood
A natural wonder of astounding size
The ruling monarch of ancient Sherwood
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I am a blue rectangle
Think sky, in a cramped box
Think no frills convict overalls
Think bluebird road kill
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My cat sighs,
‘I want to be a celebrity
I deserve to have fan letters sent
From Katmandu
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Nobody cheered, blew kisses, threw bouquets
There was no feasting, no celebratory sighs
No church rang with blessings, no prayers rose
To heaven, like chiming, footloose butterflies
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Who wrote your song?
I, said the blackbird
Why do you sing?
I must, said the blackbird
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Like grey fur boulders rabbits huddle down,
Ears pressed back like sleeves,
Raiding the grassy larder of the fields.
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Stirlin Castle lay in Inglis hauns
Beseiged bi Scots, a biggin strang an stoot
Edward, the Bruce’s brither, ringed it roon
Ettled tae sterve the furreign sodjers oot.
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