Best Yeoman Poems

They
cut up
the common,
enclosed the heath
and
made
the land
all their own-
putting to the
plough-
once 
freemen,
then wage slaves-
as a pauper
lie.

For more on the English enclosure please read
Oliver Golssmith's 'The Deserted...

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...for my yeoman brothers and sisters


Beneath the ancient ewe, my limbs grow 
strong. Ever watchful of the bayn-scurry 
crow.These fields I wander know my 
footfall...

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Footprints on a sandy beach,
will be washed away by morning.
There's a storm out on the open sea,
A thunderclap - a warning!
A lonely ship is tossed...

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On the deaths of Major John Cairns Bartholomew, of Wadworthshire, and a much loved Devizes tree...

Beneath a grey and monumental sky 
In wild confetti clouds...

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Jesus came as a beloved Son,
Walked on earth as a mortal man,
Just like me, a yeoman.

Jesus lived as the Father said.
Father! Son! Working as one!
Where...

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Down on the pier, the midmorning bright,
Thronged wives, husbands, lovers,
And sons, friends, young daughters,
All eyes perusing the grand and gray ship
In long-simmered hope of glimpsing...

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Little I ask, my wants are few,
I only wish a roof and home -
a simple one this man will do
   that I may...

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Curse of the twenty two

Ole Con he was a Yeoman at bloody El Alamein,
And he lifted out the mines where lead fell like bloody rain,
Driven...

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Yeoman throw 
On another
******
Fuel the
Fire

Yeoman
Throw on
Another
******
To fuel 
The fire

Yoe
Man                ...

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SUNLESS    IN   NORTH   SHIELDS 


It’s painful when the sea wind 
Drives  rain into the eyes
At the end...

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Science fiction writers formulate countless stories of trips to the stars.
Telling us about adventures to planets like Venus and Mars.
All their tales take us into...

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Faces seen

Sometimes in a different light,
I see another face not very nice,
Who really isn’t really surely me,
 A nasty Irishman, hate filled I see,
Who would...

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I only tell of sunny hours...
I,Gnomon,
Sundial yeoman;
Suntanned sentinel 
Stand watch,
Shedding tears for unrequited love.
My cooling shadow stalks sun;
Caresses with timely sunscreen
Sweet sundial’s gilt Egyptian face.
Ask...

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Yeoman throw 
On another
Cigarette to
Fuel the
Fire

Yeoman
Throw on
Another
Cigarette
To fuel 
The fire

Yoe
Man               ...

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What gets possibly gained from poetic encounters?
A friendship sets sail though mast’s shadows can’t merge
more than sheets in the wind that two sailors might set...

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