Best Oxford Poems
Oxford SonnetAn Oxford Sonnet
We came again to city of spires and dreams
There: were England's aspirations built and carved
In honeyed stone of Jurassic coral seas
Where minds are sculpted, nurtured and preserved
From ancient college, fount of Nation's learning
Beyond oak doors, The High tells tale in stone
The buildings speak...
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Categories:
oxford, city,
Form:
Sonnet
The Oxford English DictionaryThe Buddhists say: "If you used a raft to cross the river, there is no need to drag it along further". Oh, my good old dictionary! You're my raft in the great water of English language. Alas, we'll always be together.
I'm through half my life...
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Categories:
oxford, language,
Form:
Haibun
Timeless OxfordI stood by the bridge
Gazing down at the greens
Of the trees on the banks
At the union of streams.
Through mossed balustrade
Reflected I'd spy
The spires of Magdalen
In watery sky.
Leaves on the water
Red, yellow and gold
By unseen currents,...
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Categories:
oxford, memory, visionary,
Form:
Verse
Autumn In OxfordWalking into meadows,
we wandered across the
steep bridge and watched
the students rowing.
The narrow boats moved
smoothly under the tall
trees and the oars glided
gracefully on the river.
as the instructor called
out from time to time.
Keeping their movements
in tune with nature, they
floated into the landscape,
and we moved further along
the rich...
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Categories:
oxford, boat, environment, leaving, life,
Form:
Free verse
Live From OxfordTime for celebration
Time to gather up the best in one location
Back where high school dress codes were your main struggle
And if your outfit was right then you could score a double
As in two phone numbers from girls who may coincidentally know each other
So now your...
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Categories:
oxford, celebration, cheer up, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Car Ride, Oxford, 2011Car Ride, Oxford, 2011
It's been raining long enough that I could not tell when day faded and night entered.
But there are too many other things to notice: a dim glow that
waxes and wanes as we turn,
translucent lines on the window massaged gently
into my face by...
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Categories:
oxford, car, journey, night, rain,
Form:
Free verse
Oxfords Schleusen/ Oxford's Locks/ Las Presas De OxfordOxfords alteSchleusen
Das Gurgeln des Wassers am Abend
Sonst nur noch Stille
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Old locks of Oxford
Gurgling of water at sundown
Otherwise only silence
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Presas antiguas de Oxford
El gorgoteo del agua en la noche
Por lo demás sólo silencio...
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Categories:
oxford, nostalgia
Form:
Haiku
Oxford university and dis-unionThe spires watch nightmares planned below, for citizenry
Who should have no foe.' From within its boundry's
They're to be fools on show, the first of April, auspisces
Known.' The donkeys are leading all reason has flown.'
Six the number..' of zones in plan? to destroy cohesion
Do we give...
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Categories:
oxford, anxiety, education, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
OxfordOxford
The filigree of the old and wounded tower,
rays of stone to soften the sky,
Oxford,
rain falls to drown the silent dreams of history.
The Botanic Garden,
boats like wooden chains on the water.
From the Botanic Garden the flowers sing, together with the birds of
ancient history.
The old walls of...
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Categories:
oxford, nostalgiaold, old,
Form:
Prose Poetry
OxfordThe quiet rustle of the leaves
I am at peace over the seas
The welcoming and gentle breeze
I’m soaking up the way it feels
My grandma’s garden and her tea
The apple tree, the little bee
The timid buzz, come on! Come see!
I’m five years old,...
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Categories:
oxford, 10th grade, childhood, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Oxford StreetI walked down the alleyways of London
Early one edgy Friday evening.
I am a touring, curious resident, mind you.
The sun was shy and was sinking breathlessly and
With the hushed melody of frazzled fog.
I headed towards a snaky road, cobbled to fractured
Heels and hills, and stumbled upon
Oxford...
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Categories:
oxford, city, london,
Form:
Free verse