Best Shire Poems

TOP GUN.

A keen jet pilot broke the speed of sound
A loud sonic boom he caused on the ground
House windows were broken
The whole town awoken
Claims from...

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Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing 
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here...

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The Merry Minstrel of Mickleover

I strike this chord without a sword
For I am not so brave
Whence came a knight with armour bright
Who vowed princess to...

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The land has 
much to teach us 
    Middle Earth 
is a place 
Where evil has been defeated 
The warm hearths 
...

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Storm Our Old Shire Horse.

Storm our old Shire Horse known for his strength.
He's loved by all in our town
Throughout the years he's helped those with...

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The Sheriff, not a pleasant sort 
Was learning of a bad report
About a soul, Who stood defiant
And swore an oath, to topple tyrants

Who once was...

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As dawn starts to streak across the sky
heralding in the new born day.
Feisty rooster already perched on the wall
giving forth with all his might, he...

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There was a madam who had a business in Shire,
In the oldest profession, she was for hire,
Alas, the tax people came,
But she didn’t think the...

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My mother had a treasured ornament
A big brown shire horse
To the mind of a ten year old 
This was a toy of course .
It was...

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Jazz Horn

Now put your left foot forward.
Next put your right foot ahead.
See how that works?
See how the workings of these two appendages
Facilitates the outcome
Of one...

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THE RELUCTANT GUEST

Not proof against the pricks disdained
By the broad impact of petty phil-
Osophy, but sundered when our passions rained
Over our heads, when wish invaded...

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Or Bored With The Rings

Carved into a tree in Mirkwood:
Watch out for Treebeard, girls. He's fast!

On a restroom wall in the Shire:
Hoo boy! that Bilbo...

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Roses are red
Tree bark is brown
I don't want to be killed 
By a murderous clown

Roses are red
Dragons blow fire
I really want
To live in the Shire

Roses...

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In a castle on a hill,
Sat a king upon a throne,
Who thought life was dull and still,
Because he was alone-

He summoned castle criers,
To find a...

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Rainsoaked fields,pastel green,
perennial impressions of country scenes.
Shire counties cramped and compact,
neither temperate,changeable and in exact.
Seasons merging into one,
winters' mild,summers of sometime sun.
Ancient,historic and quaintly modern,
pub-grub,village...

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