Best Tyne Poems
Below are the all-time best Tyne poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tyne poems written by PoetrySoup members
Newcastle Upon Tyne, EnglandNEWCASTLE 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 BoyPlease 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
Eu'Rage, Britannia StageIntroduction.. 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 DogONLY 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 MagicianCaerphilly 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 ForecastIn 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 ForecastSix 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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Categories:
tyne, sea, weather, wind,
Form:
Verse
Newcastle - Northumbrian CityNEWCASTLE - NORTHUMBRIAN CITY
Half-English, half-Scot: martial roots in the past,
Newcastle - once dark...
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Categories:
tyne, city, history,
Form:
Imagism
Categories:
tyne, dog,
Form:
Verse
An Absolutely Nonsensical Pseudo Poem That Fails To Pass For a Fairy TaleWhen 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 BackGOING 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 1954GATESHEAD 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 TownSHADOW 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
ChrisSurrounded 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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Categories:
tyne, bereavement, best friend, in
Form:
I do not know?
SubmarineSUBMARINE
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