Best Gateshead Poems
Below are the all-time best Gateshead poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of gateshead poems written by PoetrySoup members
Gateshead Gate - CrashThese steep hills are part of me
Where I learned to ride a bike
And gazed over the industrial haze
And ice-dammed the steep melting streets
So the...
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Categories:
gateshead, memory, education,
Form:
Free verse
Gateshead 1954GATESHEAD 1954
My home’s between vinegar factory
And a small-time scrap metal dealer
This town is an ugly and grimy
Industrial place -...
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Categories:
gateshead, river,
Form:
Quatrain
Gateshead MusicGATESHEAD MUSIC
Not a storybook place of rhymes and chimes of bells
My childhood England was dark and dirty,
And instead of...
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Categories:
gateshead, childhood, history, music,
Form:
Free verse
Going Home In Gateshead 1952GOING HOME IN GATESHEAD 1952
Boy and mother walking home.
Sounds muffled, closed intimate silence. It was snowing.
Street ...
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Categories:
gateshead,
Form:
Free verse
Seasonal PlacesSEASONAL PLACES
Spring is found in the Lowland valleys with gowan-filled braes of Scotland
When the early-reaching flowers bloom in cool freshness, and
The...
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Categories:
gateshead, adventure,
Form:
Couplet
Going BackGOING BACK
It was not an endearing place, a storybook place
With little cottages and
Loaded fruit trees from which apples could be...
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Categories:
gateshead, introspectionsong, dark, dark, places,
Form:
Narrative
Shadow TownSHADOW TOWN
A shadow town with only a past
Abandon hope all ye who cross
The black iron bridge over the smell of...
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Categories:
gateshead, places,
Form:
Imagism
But Especially East LansingBUT ESPECIALLY EAST LANSING
Cell phone with a woodywoodpecker ringtone;
Russian style of guitar-playing with strummed beats;
Regina-Saskatoon red-eye with “collapsible”...
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Categories:
gateshead, slam, old, me, old,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Only Twenty YearsONLY TWENTY YEARS
Who can know the future of twenty years
And discount the dim offerings of Gateshead?
What 12 year old can...
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Categories:
gateshead, adventure, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Ocean of the Child MindTHE OCEAN OF THE CHILD MIND
Mirage of shimmering hot air
Between the bus stop
And the newsagent's shop
Above...
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Categories:
gateshead, childhood, imagination,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Categories:
gateshead, history,
Form:
Free verse
In the Bluebell Woods ( Part I )IN THE BLUEBELL WOODS AT SHOTLEY BRIDGE
Shotley Bridge woods must no longer exist
Though I looked for them often as an adult.
Eventually I stopped...
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Categories:
gateshead, allegory, mum,
Form:
Free verse
Things That Hate MeTHINGS THAT HATE ME
Spaghetti, for I don’t allow it to outrun my utensil
I chop...
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Categories:
gateshead, funnyhate,
Form:
Couplet
Four Love AffairsFOUR LOVE AFFAIRS
The French health food shop
Near Vasilyastrovskaya metro,
With a tiny patio garden bench -
Fell in love there with the language...
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Categories:
gateshead, urban, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
The Sound of TownsTHE SOUND OF TOWNS
Announcing my address in Gateshead
Usually started me feeling half dead.
The flames crackled as the Detroit River burned to Toledo
While...
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Categories:
gateshead, guitar, music, urban,
Form:
Rhyme