Sheena Blackhall Poems

It’s pencil-scrawled, the bus’s destination
As if the actual journey might be arbitrary,
Uncertain, an Odyssean travail.
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1.Tussle: Inspired by Tussle for the Keg - John Pettie

Gimmit
Makk me
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Skin Balaclavas and Bringing Up the Tail

1.THE WYE 0 THE WIRM
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1.Widder

I lue Glen Gairn at the skreich o day
Fin the dyew lies weet on the fen
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1.The 3-leggit Mannie

There's a 3-leggit mannie fa bides in Portree
He keeps twa pet goldfish inside his TV
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1.The Robin’s Nest

Guid day noo bonnie Robin, an whit dae ye hae here?
A nest I’ve bigged wi muckle care frae screivins far an near
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This weaver’s son from Fife
Aged 13 was a little bobbin boy
Changing spools of thread in a Pittsburgh mill
A pocket dynamo, he flashed through coloured skeins
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1. THE CHAUMER

Hard bi the byre, Dod bothied in the chaumer
The byre, far rattens feeties nichtly pammer
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The raven is the national bird of Bhutan
It is worn in the royal hat.

The raven is the official bird of the Yukon
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Do you know what it is to be poor?

I was paid 1 anna
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