Archery Poems

When time just collapses and stands still,
Reality shadows all laughter with haunted chill
I just feel that I should walk and walk …
Till the mosque awaits, not a further talk. 

You keep on talking about writing on the wall
I see a...Read More

Spears piercing through all of the pears, 
Taper as they pin to each paper. 
...Read More

Line up the front post
Cheek pressed to the stock
Call me Paparazzo
I'm taking the shot
And I don't miss
I've been enamoured with the way that you talk
Between you and me
I've been incendiary
Blowing up hot
You've been a tracer round,
Splitting dark, and shooting me...Read More

Dying in Bolehland

MURDER SHOCKER: TEENAGE GRANDSONS OF PROMINENT ANALYST ARRESTED OVER CRADLE CEO’S KILLING
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Hohoho....
The many ways to die, they are all happening here in Bolehland...
Cradle Fund head honcho, supposedly an accidental fire death....
Set off by a faulty charging phone in...Read More

The Goddess Of Blessed Redemption

She gave me a foundation of love's pleasures
complete with wondrous bountiful measures
she a gentle goddess of golden hues,
swept this heart away, vanquished all its blues.
From a verdant forest spring she arrived
relieving me of life sadly contrived.
None...Read More

The Goddess Of Blessed Redemption

She gave me a foundation of love's pleasures
complete with wondrous bountiful measures
she a gentle goddess of golden hues,
swept this heart away, vanquished all its blues.
From a verdant forest spring she arrived
relieving me of life sadly contrived.
None...Read More

Have I ever told you?
I was smitten with you then 
when we first met.
A quiver ran down my body
by your single look.
Your fine archery
couldn't have missed the shot
as your crossbow-eyes 
aimed at me
and your piercing sight 
like an arrow wounded...Read More

Two friends go camping
In the wilderness
They bring a target board
With bows and arrows

The target is up
They all get ready
One at a time wait
For each of their turns

For a perfect aim
One friend aimed- then let go
The arrow did not go far
Only...Read More

Once upon a time Cupid asked for volunteers

He wished his archery on their hearts to practice

Millions rushed forward the opportunity not to miss

Alas, few arrows he had at his disposal!*






© Demetrios Trifiatis
     03 February 2017

* Good...Read More

So mischievous was Aphrodite's dissonant minion of love
Instinct is discerning towards arrows released from above 

With a dishonest consideration to environmental influences 
	He pulled back his bow
Finger still wet from determining the wind's lingering effect 
	On the emotions below

Releasing piercing...Read More

Whilst doing a degree at Aberdeen University, 
In marine biology, Ben started to do archery, 
Along which shooting which he took to more, 
Until the international stage was an open door. 

At the age of fifteen a disorder was diagnosed,...Read More

Owen is Welsh as he comes from Rhuddian, 
Lives there but trains in Stoke Mandeville, 
In Buckinghamshire, the Aylesbury stadium:
He was born on 30 November 1975, will.

In December 2012 after the Paras, London, 
He went to a ParalympicsGB Sports Fest,...Read More

Queen of poetic Archery Andrea


Shoots she graceful poems that exudes charm from her quiver of ingenuity!



7th OCT 2016






  



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Jess was only born in 2000, in the millennial year, 
So she’s just a young thing, but she’s a bookworm, 
She trains at the Lillishall sports centre, has gear, 
And comes from Hemel Hempstead, very warm. 

She found her archery...Read More

Tania, known as Lady T sociable, 
Shoots an open recurve bow, 
In professional archery submental,
And was born the ’80s to know.

She has a Masters degree, 
From St Andrews University, 
And has been very proudly, 
In public relations formality. 

In 2015...Read More

Jodie is a law student born in Telford, 
Living in Tilford, so she happily attends,
Lillishall Nat. Sports & Conference Centre, 
And was born on the 26th July in 1993.

When her dad became ill, needed lifted, 
He followed his parents into...Read More

Mikey is an Invictus man, 
Gets many medals in archery, 
Sporty and keen he continues,
From his previous Army career. 

In the Queens Dragoons Guards, 
Whilst training he got stuck, fell,
From a rope bridge: broken neck,
Spine, and paralysed from chest. 

Help...Read More

David is an archer and comes from Newport, 
He’s Welsh, and got MS in the sixties hippy. 
He took a break from competitions, the sport, 
Having done very well in his late teens, nippy. 

So upon retirement from the steel...Read More

John Cavanagh is thought to be, 
The most respectable man in archery, 
He fell down a cliff in Switzerland, 
And now shoots a compound bow, hand.

He was born the 21st July in 1956, 
His Para classification W1 sticks,
Stoke Mandeville gave...Read More

Nathan played pro-rugby for the Glasgow Warriors, 
Until he was seventeen when he had a motorbike crash, 
Which broke thirty bones in has body, medical superiors,
Said he may die, but he battled and is paralysed brash. 

He took up wheelchair...Read More

John is from Manchester but lives in Warrington,
And was born on the 12th of July in the year 1965,
He’s cool at archery, throws a 28.25” at 60lbs, ton,
And he’s righthanded, so he has much drive. 

Before he had a hit-and-run...Read More

“It doesn’t matter if you’re young or old, 
male or female, able-bodied or disabled, 
we all stand with the same shooting [hold], 
beginner or experienced [to get enabled].“

Jo’s an archer who began shooting 2014,
When in June she won mixed team...Read More

Vicky is an archer, born on the 14th of April,
In 1977, and started getting that archery thrill,
In 2010 when she competed for the first time:
She found archery thru a friend’s lucid dime.

She lives in Malvern in Worcester, England, 
So she...Read More

I'm sure everyone has met a few of these:

Planning on college but can't formulate a sentence
or spell shoe
Still they want a degree so they think college will do
Many leaders in the world never had a formal education
Such as  Ford,...Read More

Suddenly, two Indian boys throw themselves into the water like meteors
swiming towards camp chatty as prarie dogs,
they hail from a Teton encampment of 74 lodges a few miles up river
most of the men are feeling uneasy because of the casual...Read More