Best Norfolk Poems

This is Norfolk

Feet stamp the sidewalk
Flap flap flapping
Off to somewhere, anywhere
A hot summer day in the city
With nothing and everything to do
Streets cars people buzz, a sturdy hive
All I hear is the wind across my water bottle
Humming a melody of the distant seas
Of sailors’ tales...

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I'm from Norfolk Virginny
where every bodies stingy
even king pins cut nuts and pinch pennies

where stick up kids are found
patrolling their grounds
when the sun drops the pull out and start patting you down

like give me your money now
don't make a sound
when this barrel burst it's known...

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I love to march along the Icknield way:
Bretton Heath, Brickklin Covert and Caistor;
Fring Cross, Sedgeford and Swaffham still hold sway.
The sea sings with Terns and Oystercatcher

As we descend to the cold distant shore.
The air is perfumed with sea lavender
And Norfolk’s rich and abundant secret store:
Shrubby...

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On a bus leaving Norfolk late Friday night, I was in the last seat in the back
A young and pretty woman boarded with hair so long and black
She was a sailor's dream sitting across from me and slowly falling asleep
I was gazing out the window...

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A sailor aboard ship in Norfolk
was always quick with a ludicrous joke
Though his humor was lame
he quit the ship to seek fame
Now he's the laughingstock of Roanoke

2/5/22...

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The ewes are gathering at salt licks
The ovens are hot for baking bricks
My mum is humming,
"Christmas is coming" *
My dad, it seems, is getting his kicks

*Winter is frigid in Norfolk, which may
account for 19th-century women 
naming their sons, "Christmas"! ...

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