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Best Wantage Poems

Below are the all-time best Wantage poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of wantage poems written by PoetrySoup members


Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great (born Wantage, 849)

Market place; he stands in isolation.
Known for culinary conflagration,
The object of two vandalous attacks –
How scandalous to steal his battle...

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© Mike Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wantage, history,
Form: Verse



Roadworks
ROAD WORKS AHEAD

FOLLOW THE DIVERSION

Road-works ? I’d rather have potholes !
Or go on foot, on leather soles.

Engines braying, tempers fraying
More gas, more water,
More electric, fibre-optic
More...

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© Mike Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wantage, urban,
Form: Free verse
Passing By
I was travelling. I still am, but 
once upon a time I was on my way through 
a particular place. It was north of Wantage...

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Categories: wantage, creation, earth, god, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ridgeway Rambles
Avebury a Wiltshire village low
To windswept beacon of Ivinghoe.
Eighty-five miles,vale and hill
Wayfare freedoms,exhilarate and thrill.

Striding downs in grassy scrub
Midst trees and clumps of shrub;
Shaded lanes,gates...

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Categories: wantage, places,
Form: Ballad

Book: Reflection on the Important Things