Best Lowry Poems

land of lost shadows
and unweathered skies.

five urban colours
through unflinching eyes.

tall distant chimneys
and schoolyards at play.

smoke drifting sideways
in stillness each day.

sketches on packets
of stained cigarettes.

strange brooding...

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( Coming home from the mill. )

Air full of smog from dirty factory chimney

people walking around square quite nimbly, 

grey clouds above small terraces workers...

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Footles based on LS Lowry and his paintings.

Surreal
I feel

Lone Man
Own Man

Match fit
Matchsticks

Street scene
Smoke seen

From mill
Street fill

School group
Pea soup

The Pond
Beyond

Seascape
Flat shape

A Fight
Plain sight

House Moor
Strange door

Cranes ships
No...

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Inspired by the painting by LS Lowry Man Lying on a Wall. The poem makes the most sense when viewed with the painting. 

I wasn't...

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Lawrence Tephen Lowry
famed for pictureque naivety
'Stick people' were his usp
of folk like us - both u&me...

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our lady of Guadalupe stands alight in corner air
her gown emerald, cerise, gold
Don Pedro stands afore
glass to glass in an amber glow
Lowry’s beaked bird of...

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A diminutive girl, born in a colossal world.
Originate as a weed, no one like to plant this seed.
All and sundry cried and swept, feeling depressed
the...

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Gritted pavements chew neath worn sodden soles 
Dissipating cardboard inlaid repairs 
Gravel chews at my thrice darned old socks 
Absorbing trudged blisters weeping despair 
This...

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NO ONE IS
Lowry painted what he saw
in Pendlebury,then.Grimy 
surroundings became 
philosophy of art to his
brush and pen.Not as an
artist,just someone who
paints and cares,seeing
not the streets...

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What a wonderful escape
The gallery was inspiring
With a mixed medium creation
Of a street I've stood on
And a view and moment in time
I experienced
Myself
Beautiful

Within (withon?) the...

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Everywhere around me I only see
Men and women as thought up by Lowry
They come click-clacking by,leaning on sticks
I feel  my senses are just playing...

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L S Lowry-
        his everyday...became everlasting...

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The great white North can relax now,
The raptors lost their seventh game
And like the other also rans…
Go play some golf out on some greens.

They gave...

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Denton's Harry Rutherford
sketched so never got bored
Star of BBC's Caberet cartoon spool
a master with Lowry in the Northern school...

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