Best Tyne Poems

NEWCASTLE  UPON  TYNE,    ENGLAND

Half-Scot,  half-English  and  ill at ease with the past,
Newcastle is sooty black from its coaly drama, 
And  the breathless town was always  in a hurry to grow, 
Narrowly avoiding  destruction of...

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Tyne Cot War Cemetery

White head stones in countless rows
Soldiers all from the Great War battles

Thousands dead now glory served
Each one a son and loved one

Victoria Cross engraved as heroes found
Known unto God a sad refrain written

On the stone “Their name liveth for Evermore”
A Christian Cross...

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CALL  OF THE  TYNE



The river fog grey-green
Hides the silent piers
Of bridges which lead 
To roads unknown. 

The Tyne’s call of the deep -
Fog-horn, long missed
And far buried within me,
Shows the hidden way unknown;

Feels slowly cautiously
Through miles years 
With low-pitch note, 
Penetrates the unknown....

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TYNE - BUILT    SHIP    1968

Gigantic steel  behemoth
Sitting on the ways greased
And ready to give it birth,
Ten-storey-high  street-darkener,
Rusted and immobile  -

Once launched in silent swish
And cheered by a thousand voices,
Transformed to marine elegance,
And slimmed by the vastness...

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At sweet sixteen she'd never been kissed
And then she met Miss Kuni Lynn Guist
A sweet Valentine
Would suit her just fine
And Mr. Wright would never be missed...

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