Boilers Poems - Poems about Boilers

The Most Beautiful Lady That Ever Was

...
People anticipated, and waited for the day they could gaze upon my beauty, and that they did. The men adored me, the women admired me, and the children were in awe of me. 
Everyone loved me! I was...

Next Door

...
Next door was a paddock 
of long grass and a graveyard 
for dumped machinery.
Rusted out boilers, cogs, wheels
and huge presses were piled high
and begged for the sure foot
of a boy to climb ...

Elite Street

...It’s great to be a member of the global elite,
   The bean poles in my garden are standing proud and neat.
Organic veg is thriving thanks to ample bags of peat.
   I never hear a siren roaming dow...

Long Street House

...It’s up for sale again,
the Long Street house
of our childhood.
This cream chrysalis
once housed our lives.
Fresh paint bandages 
deep cracks as old as history.
Inside its rough cast façade,
...

The Queen of the Ocean, Titanic

...
Let me tell you a story . . . 

The RMS Titanic steamship was the largest 
and most magnificent ship in the world (at the time)
high as an 11 story building 
and long as 4 "long" city bloc...

Albert's Family's Eulogy

...We’d just buried poor old Peter and we’re back now at his wake,
and of course it’s sad to see him gone but it’s great we can partake,
in giving comfort to his widow now that the hardest part is don...

The Great Writer's Fate, Part Ii

......Is impressing some professor,
or some critic with pretentious airs,
worth telling my own children that
their father will never be there?

Is acting like a profound wit
that can 'peel back de...

Cruise Cat Tastrophy

...Cicely Catherine Charlotte,
Child of a cosmopolitan century,
Captain of the cruise vessel
Cooling its boilers in the cove.

Cicely dispensing catnip
creates crazy feline
cuckoo clim...

The Chef

...100ft. under the paving, 100f o into work. 

Heat attacks via, boilers, stoves & grill. 

Languages thrash & assail the ears, 

Chilling the blood of the faint hearted. 

Why do it?          ...

Walton's Scrapyard

...Walton’s Scrapyard

Mr Walton was our local scrap man
He wore a great big hat
His yard was squeezed between 
Two terraced houses
And I was always amazed at that

The yard was full of junk
Ru...

Ein Reich Ein Volk

...they snorted and toiled
the sound of swords being hammered
the vanquished lay screaming
a tale of rank deception
with a maniac for the wind
and damnation in the boilers
trailing smoke and scrap...

Cat History In Eight Stanzas

...Tom said to his kitten: Don't hunt! It's hard work!
Leave hunting to others and don't be a burk
Watch me and heed me and later admire
We'll slink to the future - a far distant fire

There sat so...

Unification Understanding Undergrowth Underwater Uniquely Underwent Unselfishly Unified

...Funnily it is the shame of sham that shampoo runs away down a drain. Oh dear. What an absolute disaster for the many supporting bottles bearing differing names. Nevertheless it is the revered gel tha...

Recollections From the Golden Cree Iii

...Brackish-gurgling days that
Unobtrusively slid along
Past tussock grass and curled up 
Balls of Fern...
Glued tightly onto structured vanes
Of outstretched frond.
Venerable Mosses reciting epic...

Matchstick Bikes

...Matchstick Bikes 

To tinkers and toilers 
     I salute, 
From mending boilers 
     to weaving jute, 
Man and boy 
     for generations, 
I will unemploy 
     your occupations. 

To bre...

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