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Billingsgate Poems - Poems about Billingsgate


I Still Feel Under the Weather Today April 2nd, 2023
...I still feel under the weather today April 2nd, 2023 Unseen enemy invades my body with platoon of green berets air rating, and enfilading immune system viz Hib bully knock and sock kin me c......

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Categories: billingsgate, adventure, anger, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dungeness
...copper burns across an endless sky competing caws claim salt, surf and sand sailing high above slowly sagging carcasses long forgotten at the edge of the world buckled rails swim over a s......

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Categories: billingsgate, beach, bird, boat, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Gnu In the Crew
...The gnu in the crew Didn’t know what to do He was feeling a wee bit bumfuzzle For the bear in the middle Spoke pure taradiddle And he was just part of the puzzle He called out “gardyloo Yes, I......

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Categories: billingsgate, language, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Dickensian Time
...In Dickensian time Upon sunset hour Overshadowing Thames Is London Tower Blackened cobble streets Shimmer in the rain Big Ben at Westminster Chimes an eight bells refrain At Euston Station......

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Categories: billingsgate, places,
Form: Free verse
Billingsgate Fish Market 1900
...It so early it's only four o'clock and it's dark on a freezing cold and wet morning, A man with a cap rings a bell to let us know times getting on and dawn’s dawning, As the bell rings all the lights......

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Categories: billingsgate, history, dark, dark, fish,
Form: Prose Poetry




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