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Best Lancaster Poems

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


Premium Member I Am Not From Lancaster
I am not from Lancaster ain't no tumbleweed rollin through my backyard or brain.  when those beautiful snow capped mountains show up in the...

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Categories: lancaster, adventure, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Lancaster, Ny
Lancaster, New York

Mid-west town of the East where neighbors are friends and friends are family!

Written 10.04.2016...

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Categories: lancaster, home,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Under the Cover
Under The Cover.
.
You can never ever
Tell a book by it’s cover
As I was later to discover
The Lady in the Nursing home
The old man across the...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lancaster, appreciation, caregiving, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Derbyshire Flag- For Contest
The Derbyshire flag has a cross of green
with a background of pale blue
green for the verdant leas and peaks
blue Derwent running through.
At the crux of...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lancaster, history,
Form: Rhyme
Shoo-Fly Pie
they till the soil
with a simple plow
pulled by a horse
they've weaned

no electric
nor vast education
only hard work 
religious dedication

a simple people
of limited skill
yet a divine community
of...

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lancaster, life, people, sad, life,
Form: Free verse



Peacock Prison Paradise
(Haiku)

Gold dust rides whirlwind,
softly speckles wet canvas,
Lost Dutchman Mine found

Prose ~

"Maggie save your strength..." words whispered in the corridor of a prestigious art gallery in...

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Categories: lancaster, age, art, birthday, death,
Form: Haiku
Single
A wandering minstrel, I.
Full of joy and laughter.
With a song and a dance.
I play, and romance.
The beautiful girls of Lancaster.

I fall in love every day,
With...

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Categories: lancaster, happiness, love,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
Oliver James
Oliver is the cox of the LTA mixed cox four team, 
And graduated from Warwick Uni in Philosophy, 
Where he started rowing at once in...

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Categories: lancaster, sports, strength, water,
Form: Rhyme
Total Time I Spent In Dental Chair Post Adolescence To Present Age First Appointment
so much precious existence 
found me rooted with mouth ajar 
as sigh asper the dentin-cementum 
so mud dear reader (with dem perfect 
enameled pearly whites),...

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Categories: lancaster, body, depression, feelings, grief,
Form: Imagism
Joy...Oh, Boy
You lay in the surf waiting for me
Although Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr we could not be.
Trying at love with the incoming tide
Kelp and seaweed...

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Categories: lancaster, imagination, inspirational, on writing
Form: Rhyme
Often
Often 
In the Cold War I was afraid from one type of war but this was born out of the death of another war. ...

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Categories: lancaster, angst, conflict, death, history,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Trial of a Pendle Witch
(York Assizes, 20th August 1612)
Judge Sir James Altham, Speyks,

Tha wi power t’ eeal
wi power t’ cumfort
logic an’ knowledge
ney i’ t’ nivver t’ be,
nobbut God grants...

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Categories: lancaster, education, power,
Form: Narrative
The Night Glenfell
The Night Glenfell

         A summer solstice candle breezing midst the twilight air  
   ...

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Categories: lancaster, natural disasters,
Form: Blank verse
The Christmas Box.
Snow hadn’t fallen overnight, but a heavy frost had covered the ground
             ...

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Categories: lancaster, childhoodchristmas, for him, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Graeme Ballard
Graeme’s hero is Steven Gerrard, 
That Liverpool and LA football player,
And has Cerebral Palsy. It was hard, 
‘Cos doctors said he’d never blether. 

He was...

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Categories: lancaster, body, health, motivation, race,
Form: Quatrain

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