Best Scouse Poems

Chorus
Sights are far but our minds are close
two hearts share one inhale with one nose
stage acts are for her even the pose
smiles from down she...

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I am a displaced Scouser,
Who comes from Bootle way,
And no matter where I go,
A Scouser will I stay.

I eat my chips on Butties,
Or perhaps upon...

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Soup and scouse
Permeate a house
Odors causing wet teeth.
The ingredients in these mixtures are not all sweet.
Some are quite bitter, even sour, on their own.
They do...

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Penny Lane

Penny Lane is more than just the last stop on the number 62 bus
Far removed from that of today
Where the children spit and cuss
The...

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The kind heart ***** cook saved me, “Pitch all your sweet meats over-board and turn upon the hearty salt beef and ship bread . ....

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Ancestoral Roots

I am a Taxi Driver in Liverpool 
And the first thing people say
When they get in the cab with me
Is 
Your not a Scoucer
Are...

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There’s a raindrop hammer on a skylight pane
And it’s driving me insane
This nasty weather is a constant pain
Has it always got to rain
Someone has the...

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One starry night, a very long ago it
was death who thought to out-drink the poet.

Oh, let me pour you, death, a little more
of English ale...

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Gorrup. 
Gorrowta bed
Gorridda yester's scouse
Grabbed me mornin cuppa
Gorron the bloody net
Groaned ter see that nobody
Gorroff on readin' me
Gowawn sed I
Gowin ter chair
Growlin' in me belly
Gropin'...

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Oh second hand counting time
upon the liver building gothic clock
Waving goodwill to her dearly departed 3 sister's
Starring gainly upon lady mersey set a blitz

Climbing up...

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Pangs of exile


In the season of the fallen leaf
Pangs of exile, pangs of grief
Should I join the expat web?
I will still receive The Sheaf
Pangs of...

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Newspaper blows along rain-washed streets,
dying echoes of hash tags and tweets
promising hook-ups, flash mobs and meets,
long gone to their bed-sits and urban retreats.

Puddles painted with...

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There's no need to worry, who wants to steal your work?
You think that under every stone, some thieves may lurk;
I wish they would - they...

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Being Aussie and a nomad with a wish to travel far,
there comes a time when money’s scarce no matter who you are.
I was in the...

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When it comes to being
called other name's by 
people

Sometimes they ain't all that 
half bad at all and can even
leave one feeling rather glad
instead

Like when...

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