Dead Good Poets

Sheena Blackhall

Bennachie, AD 84

Elegy for a Dead Admiral, Possibly Nelson

Castlegate Gull

The Ghaists o ma Mither's Simmer Frocks

A Mither Worries

The Dead Good Poets online anthology of poetry by writers from and associated with Aberdeen was published in 2006/2007 with funding from Aberdeen City Council.

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Ae Meditation

Sheena Blackhall

An Owersett frae Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome AD 161–180

Aa ferlies are wuvven throwither, a haly bond jynes them;
there is feint the thing that stauns alane.

Aathin's linkit, aathin wirks thegither
tae gie form tae the ae Universe.
The Warld order is Ane frae monie, aa in Ane,
rennin throwe aa, aa are Ane, aa Law
is Ane. An aa truitht is Ane.

Like lichtin, ilkie pikk o matter mirls inno the Aybydan kirn,
like lichtnin aathin ilkie maik o Causation reforms
inno the Aybydan Rizzen; like lichtnin
the myndin o aathin's beeriet in the Howe o Eternity.

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