From Birkenhead Bridge
...Memory still walks
along the river
on a summer's evening
when a soft wind
lingers over the mangroves
and lifts the smell of mud
rimmed along the river's edge
into the warm air.
I imagine...
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Categories:
birkenhead, river,
Form: Free verse
Robert Berrima Quinn Military Medal Port Adelaide Stalwart
...Born in 1915 at Birkenhead by the Port River Inlet
A son of Port Adelaide as one of the best youd get
In the days before bridges he would row
Across the river to training and games hed go
He ...
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Categories:
birkenhead, remember, sports, world war
Form: Ballad
The Cigarette Smoking
...The cigarette Smoking
When I lived in Britain that place where refugees in Calais
try to hide in a lorry for the crossing to the promised land.
And haven where pubs are full and pints of lager is...
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Categories:
birkenhead, abuse, blessing, celebration, depression,
Form: Sonnet
Birkenhead
...Let me tell you a little story, of a boy called Ned
He was they say from a far away place called, Birkenhead
He had some good friends called: Fred, Red and also Ted
And they were so poo...
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Categories:
birkenhead, fantasy, funny,
Form: Couplet