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Best Antrim Poems

Below are the all-time best Antrim poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of antrim poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Antrim Glen
Friends, dear friends, thanks for your effervescence
Miss the camaraderie at Antrim Glen, always present
When we moved away, it left a big void
Our time there was...

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Categories: antrim, nostalgia,
Form: Limerick



Seagulls Over Antrim
( In Memoriam Liam Clarke)

The strandcafe was
                  ...

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Categories: antrim, death of a friend,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Mrs Catherine Antrim
I for one can't help but wonder
how the Kid's life would have turned out, 
had he not lost his mother.
The one true individual in his...

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Categories: antrim, history, holiday, mother, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ireland - a Divided Island Part Three
kaisers, kings, emperors fight for territory
  dispensable bodies left in the ground on foreign soil, unreturned
  militarisation of memory and folly
  an...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: antrim, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Jesse Evans and the Boys and the Kid
Jesse Evans and The Boys earned much notoriety
during the old west's most untamed and wild history.
Raiding resturants and salloons they would drink and eat for...

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Categories: antrim, history,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Thirty-Two
from island corner, big Antrim lad
  to Belfast city, a tiny pad
  shattered windows, tilted clocks
  Goliath had lost his socks
 ...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: antrim, ireland, nonsense,
Form: Verse
Premium Member John Miller and the Kid
John Miller and William H Bonney, 
are both one and the same apparently, 
at least that's what John Miller would claim occasionally, 
but never when...

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Categories: antrim, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Irish Travels
A lovely week spent on the Antrim coast
the weather was decent but not wonderful
seeing such lovely scenery so green
spectacular views of the hills, a hidden...

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Categories: antrim, holiday, ireland, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sheriff and the Brother
Both of their eyes locked hard on one another.
The sheriff needed to talk with this grieving, vengeful brother.
"Have a seat and a drink with me,"...

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Categories: antrim, cowboy-westernwrite, brother, old, brother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member "why Are You Smiling?"
Judge Bristol passed his sentence with the following words and said,
"The said William Bonney, alias Kid, alias William Antrim
shall be hanged by the neck until...

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Categories: antrim, funny, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 6. Billy, the Kid Part 3
Continued From:
5. Billy, the Kid Part 2
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poem_detail.aspx?ID=195851

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Billy was a lad of many aliases. William Henry McCarty is believed to be his birth name.
Alias Henry...

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Categories: antrim, cowboy-western, historylife,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 3. "quien Es?" "who Is It?" Part 3
Continued From:
2. "Quien es?" "Who is it?" Part 2
 http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poem_detail.aspx?ID=195856

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He loved to read. He loved to sing. He loved to dance and even act....

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Categories: antrim, cowboy-western, historyday, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Kid's Mother
One has to wonder
how the Kid's life would have turned out, had he not lost his mother.
The one true individual in his life whom he...

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Categories: antrim, history, life, lost, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Garden Crush
A beautiful woman delights the eye;
a wise woman, the understanding;
a pure one, the soul.

Minna Antrim

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GARDEN CRUSH

Tangerine hair, floral lips.
Nostrils flare - petals...

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Categories: antrim, art, beauty, flower,
Form: Ekphrasis

Book: Reflection on the Important Things