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Best Tyne Poems

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Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
NEWCASTLE  UPON  TYNE,    ENGLAND

Half-Scot,  half-English  and  ill at ease with the past,
Newcastle is sooty black from its...

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Categories: tyne, urban
Form: Free verse



The Geordie Boy
Please dad,
please don't cry,
it's selfish for me to say,
cause dad you gave me breath,
the breath I breath today.

A strong man,
always the family fed,
dad you gave...

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Categories: tyne, fatherdad, dad, me, boy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eu'Rage, Britannia Stage
Introduction..  An excerpt from a speech by Mr Keith Campbell 1969,  On the need of a referendum on joining the 'common market' the...

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Categories: tyne, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Only To the Dog
ONLY   TO THE  DOG


Dialect abandoned with education and travel  
Now only speak Geordie to the dog on walks
In unguarded moments
Awkwardly recalling...

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Categories: tyne, words,
Form: Imagism
Tommy Cooper Comedian and Failing Magician
Caerphilly is a small town
Famous for its cheese
Has a castle looks like its falling  down
With a Moat around with geese

Outside now stands a large Statue, 
It...

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Categories: tyne, life,
Form: Light Verse



The Shipping Forecast
In homage to the waters around the UK and all those who sail them...


Late at night and early dawn
Like clockwork - every day are heard
Those...

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Categories: tyne, high school, jealousy, nature,
Form: I do not know?
The Shipping Forecast
Six minutes to six.  I’m ready for tea,
The forecast for shipping – what is in store ?
My chair is a vessel far out on...

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© Mike Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tyne, sea, weather, wind,
Form: Verse
Newcastle - Northumbrian City
NEWCASTLE    -   NORTHUMBRIAN   CITY

 
Half-English, half-Scot:  martial roots in the past,
Newcastle   -  once dark...

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Categories: tyne, city, history,
Form: Imagism
Dackel
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dackel  was nine
                    ...

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Categories: tyne, dog,
Form: Verse
An Absolutely Nonsensical Pseudo Poem That Fails To Pass For a Fairy Tale
When poet Tennyson was very young,
He was a handsome tiny son, 
Who loved playing tennis under the sun.

When in his teens,
Tennyson excelled at his studies...

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Categories: tyne, children, fairy, funny, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Going Back
GOING     BACK



It  was not an endearing place, a storybook place
With little cottages and
Loaded fruit trees from which apples could be...

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Categories: tyne, introspectionsong, dark, dark, places,
Form: Narrative
Gateshead 1954
GATESHEAD  1954


My home’s  between vinegar factory
And a small-time scrap metal dealer
This town   is  an ugly and  grimy
Industrial place -...

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Categories: tyne, river,
Form: Quatrain
Shadow Town
SHADOW    TOWN


A shadow town with only a past
Abandon hope all  ye  who cross
The black iron bridge over the smell of...

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Categories: tyne, places,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Chris
Surrounded by the glitz and frippery
the ribbons, bells and stars all meant to warm you,
on the mantelpiece, parading with the cards
the one that silently '...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tyne, bereavement, best friend, in
Form: I do not know?
Submarine
SUBMARINE

It was Navy Day on the River Tyne*
I can remember I was about nine.
Four big grey warships to be seen
And a small black submarine.
The big...

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Categories: tyne, seariver,
Form: Narrative

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