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

Newcastle - Northumbrian City

NEWCASTLE    -   NORTHUMBRIAN   CITY

 
Half-English, half-Scot:  martial roots in the past,
Newcastle   -  once dark...

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Categories: northumbrian, city, history,
Form: Imagism

Gateshead Gate - Crash

These 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: northumbrian, memory, education,
Form: Free verse

Northern England

NORTHERN   ENGLAND

Steep hills and sudden

Gouged by ice, and water-formed -

This is no  civilized  landscape gentle

With  demesne and orchard

And sun-kissed downland...

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Categories: northumbrian, home,
Form: Free verse

Translation: Ech Day Me Cometh Tydinges Thre

Ech day me cometh tydinges thre
"Each Day Three Tidings Come to Me"
(anonymous Middle English poem, circa the 13th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Each...

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Categories: northumbrian, angst, anxiety, death, depression,
Form: Couplet

Hero's Return In Armada Mass

June 6th 1944
An Armada masses at Europe's door
Five sector landings, 160,000 troops
On the following beaches, our hero's would swoop
Utah, Omaha, Juno, Sword and Gold
Allow me...

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Categories: northumbrian, angst, death, family, history,
Form: Rhyme