Best Wallsend Poems

STORIES  IN  POTTERY 


Bluebirds above the azure lakes
Burleigh cups  - willow pattern trees in gold leaf -
Once with mashed Sichuan oolong,
And on...

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ROMAN WALL  

Progress  accelerates around us but still
Like squirrels turning a treadmill
Past and present are the same, it’s true,
As the paralyzed  Prufrock...

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Hadrian,a man of defensive thoughts
Fortified Wallsend to Maryport;
Now fallen down,past its use-by-date
This Roman barrier across our land-
In some folks minds,it still stands!...

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I remember being lost on holidays,
Inveigled by a fair ground’s gaudy lights.
Seeking comfort, I held a stranger’s hand.
But you were found at last, cradling as...

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Recall me being lost on holiday?
a fair seduced with bright gaudy light.
I held in tears a stranger’s hand all day
you found me howling loudly, cradling...

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