Best Newcastle Poems

...I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it
On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the
dingo’s call?  It couldn’t be as all
Round me were the sounds of London go......

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...Polly Astley loved to have visitors, for she loved piquant, plum people;
Like counting stars when we were young, in milky moonlight, peaceful.

Her days were spent teaching children, with ......

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...NEWCASTLE  UPON  TYNE,    ENGLAND

Half-Scot,  half-English  and  ill at ease with the past,
Newcastle is sooty black from its coaly drama, 
And  the breathless town was always  in a hurry to gro......

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...CULLERCOATS   *

Warm  brown sandstone cottage walls 
Doors and  windows very old
Shelter face from  sea-wind squalls:
Inside, tales of sea are   told

Toy shops there with spinning  windmills......

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...They're selling off our Airport, does anybody care? 
The old Gazette's done nothing yet, no 'Save it' campaign there 
The Echo there in Darlo seems quite reluctant to 
Investigate the Peel Magnate......

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...Time outruns those who don't sprint 
To keep up. It never turns back
Or bothers to wait for idle souls

Why carry coals to Newcastle?
Time misspent is time gone forever
Easy come and easy go

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...Tonight there is a match on telly
The lads are coming round 
most of them are married
So my home is to be the neutral ground .

If any of their wives ring 
I'm to pretend that I am deaf
and th......

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...Arsenal first Friday, always start well
New signings too, will give Leicester hell
Arsenal easy, next,

Liverpool in the early game, a win at a canter
Watford offer up more presents than Santa
......

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...NEWCASTLE    -   NORTHUMBRIAN   CITY

 
Half-English, half-Scot:  martial roots in the past,
Newcastle   -  once dark from its coaly drama -
A breathless place ever ready for change.
 
       ......

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...A Perfect Company
By: Noel N. Villarosa


They are the big fish in a small pond
They received kudos and power widely
With their bunch of fives used as their wand
They dominate while sitting id......

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...I love this brown ale so much
In a glass so clear
Newcastle, you are the one......

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...When poet Tennyson was very young,
He was a handsome tiny son, 
Who loved playing tennis under the sun.

When in his teens,
Tennyson excelled at his studies 
So much so that he won the admirati......

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...LONDON     JOURNEY    FASCINATION

First time on a mainline LNER   train  *
When you’re  five’s  a signal whistle
For six hours Kings Cross   to  Newcastle   **
Sightseeing.   Walk along platfor......

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...Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dackel  was nine
                          He sniffed the breeze for the traces of Rhine
                                      In the show there was a foe 
                    ......

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...GATESHEAD  1954


My home’s  between vinegar factory
And a small-time scrap metal dealer
This town   is  an ugly and  grimy
Industrial place - and it doesn’t get any realer

Like rich woman n......

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