Sheena Blackhall Poems

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161.
Tittle-Tattle

You should have seen your man at the bar on Friday!
Over Daniel's wife he was like rash
Didn't you wonder where he was till Sunday?
Daniel's wife is the village bike, white trash.
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162.
What Is Forgotten & What Remains

What is forgotten & what remains is an event at the Mueum of Immigration, Paris, running from May2019-August 2021

What passes down through the generations?
Tunes from a country's lost refrains?
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163.
16 English Poems From The Poetry Lesson

1.My Cat
My cat has a whiplash tail
a sandpaper tongue
Despoiler of bird sanctuaries
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164.
Fishing Village

A Saltire blows on the breeze
Blue ganzies flap in the wind

The sea rocks up on the shore
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165.
The Quarry

His body looked at her,
My little dancing cousin
Taboo. Forbidden fruit
Unripe and lovely in her summer frock
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166.
The Fortingall Yew

When Neolithic man with fur & stone
Roamed Scotland, one small seed begat a tree
At Fortingall, with wolf and wildness sown
It grew in stature, a yew stout and free
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167.
Portsoy

A yacht slices the waves like a cheese-cutter
Off the jetty, youngsters plump
Like porpoise-pods in the Firth
Half-fish, these seamen’s sons in seal-wet trousers
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168.
Grandmother

She'd a laugh that bubbled like berries in the pan
She'd whalebone stays with salmon-gusset bloomers
She'd a smile as bright's the sun on a copper kettle
She prodded a mouth in the fire till it told stories
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169.
Coleridge And Wordsworth

A pair, like rhyming couplets,
Two poets roamed the fells
Sam C. saw magic visions
Whilst Will saw daffodils
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170.
By The Lake (Angkor Wat)

A farmer bathes his cow in the lake
Like a servant, ministering to his mistress

The cow stands patiently
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