Best Redbrick Poems

In The House Of Dengbej
 

Three sisters sit
Each in crimson velvet
And veiled hair.
Relate tales
Of interracial love.
Of Armenian Boys and Kurdish Gals.
This is a town of
Cobbled streets and redbrick houses of the ancient Lore.
Diyarbakir, Sur.
Fidus Achates: an Armenian gal and a Kurdish girl
Are no more. The...

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All the elegant ivy
an inch off the brick wall
is scattered so purposefully

and behind the gate a bird hops
like some kind of humiliated
game show contestant.

This is a view, one view,
through the redbrick arbor
where the corbeled arch frames
a bit of the street
so I can only see
one or...

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Rain-drenched streets gleam

in the glow of the sodium lamps

as the second shift waits in the bus

queue, chattering like children after a

Saturday matinee. Moon-bright puddles

flash, and leaves tremble in the trees by the

park, sent shivering by the wind's insistent edge,

and the lights along the distant motorway...

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Rain-soaked streets gleam in the glow 
of the sodium lamps as the second shift 
waits in the bus queue, chattering like 
children after a Saturday matinee. 
Moon-bright puddles flash, the leaves 
tremble in the trees by the park, 
sent shivering by the wind's insistent edge,
and...

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Rain-drenched streets gleam
in the glow of the sodium lamps
as the second shift waits in the bus
queue, chattering like children after a
Saturday matinee. Moon-bright puddles
flash, and leaves tremble in the trees by the
park, sent shivering by the wind's insistent edge,
and the lights along the distant motorway...

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Rain-drenched streets gleam
in the glow of the sodium lamps
as the second shift waits in the bus
queue, chattering like children after a
Saturday matinee. Moon-bright puddles
flash, and leaves tremble in the trees by the
park, sent shivering by the wind's insistent edge,
and the lights along the distant motorway...

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'Write Thirteen Beautiful Lines' Poetry Contest: Sponsored by Constance La France (April/May 2025). 


Where hills are alive
with imagination
carried by clouds
toward their destination
Lakeland fells and sheep
Liverpool of cormorants 
Wales with its dragons
Yorkshire and terrier dogs
in Lancashire towns
of redbrick and cobbled folk
who worked with bare hands
to build...

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