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Auckland Poems - Poems about Auckland

I Really Just Don't Care
...Sun shining over the ghastly life-filled lands Burning brightly upon the crimson sand Trunk and Trees here and there Falling upon the Aussie’s flair From a place filled with hills to mountains,......

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Categories: auckland, 9th grade, adventure, community,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For the Fisher King On His Golden Jubilee
...O’ friend! Son of this realm your native land and Knight of the Long Bay on the long shore - Fisher King to its isle and rock and sand where long ago we drank and gazed The Tor. And I ech......

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Categories: auckland, birthday, friendship,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Age of Aquarius
... Time was when in a golden age begun a boy was I and a vision was she, and at the heart of her constellation gazed I upon its infinite beauty. I vowed the ends of the earth to follow ......

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Categories: auckland, childhood, first love, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Trip Advisory
...I chanced to look upon the world, through current Channels..And much unfurled; I noted the various Decades passed, wars on terror legalising grass..' Wars on waste, the slogans did run, my mind re......

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Categories: auckland, appreciation, change, education, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member SS Southern Cross - the Old Lady of the Sea
... Built in a Belfast shipyard for Shaw Savill ‘n Albion Line. On her flagstaff wind ‘n lee flew the Southern Cross ensign, down a slipway to the sea launched afar by Her Majesty ......

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Categories: auckland, childhood, voyage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Western Springs
... High-ho! High-ho! High-ho! it’s off to the pub and gig we go Willy Wonka ticket stubs in our hand on our way to see the band Climb the fence, jump the turnstiles into the crowd do......

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Categories: auckland, music,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Leopards Loose in the Domain
...Out of a neon jungle the big cats prowl the wind in the willows unrecovered, for when the cats and wind begin to howl I am stoned and the boys truly mothered! So I rip in and bowl an insw......

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Categories: auckland, friend, games, sports,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Rangitoto College Reunion
... I Hearken back to the old rule nazis how Deputy Fuhrer Hart led assembly - with his bell, megaphone and monobrow it was more like a Hitler Youth Rally! And C......

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Categories: auckland, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Written in a Graveyard
...O’ God, I fear no peace, no life’s atone, only silent condemnation disguised - this misfortune is mine and mine alone and to that end I have philosophised. To the wider picture of death a......

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Categories: auckland, introspection, life,
Form: Sonnet
Ladder Bay
...I come to this little cove often - no work, I have time to burn. See Asians plunder its foreshore, I still fish - show no concern. Red-bill seagulls fly in circles, fight over scraps th......

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Categories: auckland, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Gull Point
... I know you so well now that I can instantly capture your moods. Watching as the tide ebbs - you regretfully reveal hidden treasures. Children......

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Categories: auckland, beach, sea,
Form: Free verse
Chatham Ave
... I walked down the track in the afternoon ten years of memories cut in too soon. I started to sweat, I had no room, and overhead......

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Categories: auckland, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
The Stillborn Love
...Pain abates. A silent love zigzags through his bullet wound. He is an Indian mercenary fighting for the Allies. He was born with a rusted iron spoon in his mouth. Hunger made him a soldi......

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Categories: auckland, war,
Form: Free verse
Frangipani
...frangipani did you imagine I could leave you trapped in quick drying cement locked forever on a bed of strangers coral with only sea spray falling on the reef to mourn your passing? no my f......

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Categories: auckland, bereavement, death of a
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Could
... If I could, ...I'd stroll with you in a lovely Autumn wood and gather every golden leaf to save them in a book on each one we'd write our dreams and all our special thoughts to read through......

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Categories: auckland, true love,
Form: Quatrain

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