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 GreatAlfred 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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Categories:
wantage, history,
Form:
Verse
RoadworksROAD 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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Categories:
wantage, urban,
Form:
Free verse
Passing ByI 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
Ridgeway RamblesAvebury 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