Calais Poems - Poems about Calais

...Let hope rely upon your Maginot for swift retort has choked your Gallic might. It crushed your will beneath its undertow as diligence receded in the fight. Your flailing forces teeter on defeat ......Read the rest...

...Absolute deafening silence... during and after a moderate snowfall today January 19th, 2024, within Southeastern Pennsylvania and elsewhere across the Eastern Seaboard, whereby blanket of whit......Read the rest...

...Bulky ute voyeur selects sleek sporty stalion Driving by, supersedes her oversized sedan Wide wheel arches have Porche comparison Voracious engine's enthuse easily enchants L......Read the rest...

...William Madox Brown from Calais a colleague to PRB's Everett Millais The ' Last of England' so evocative making the pathos live......Read the rest...

...Moonlight glowed in a gown of gold array Luminant stars sparkled above Calais* I would drive my love in a horse-drawn sleigh and keep her warm with blanket of crochet. As snowflakes fell, I'd......Read the rest...

...A permanent fixture on the news over here on the BBC Is the Refugee Crisis so much so it may just as well be given it's own individual segment And the general running theme throughout is ......Read the rest...

... My wife and I share a passion for travelling, the world we love to see We travelled through France and Switzerland and we're now in Italy Day one was a trip in a cable car to the summit of M......Read the rest...

...I don’t know a tweet from a twitter Instagram and Tik-Tok? I was a quitter I receive lots of texts, but do not send any My hands get clammy from spending a penny… Huh? Wudja say? – Yeah, I’......Read the rest...

...Ice on my igloo roads frosted over Cursed, cutting cadaverous cold deathly chill from Calais to Dover Thought it was nippy but my fingers are numb Arctic algidity all around winds w......Read the rest...

... What if the Rubix cube was round? Would everything lost be found? Maybe Boris Johnson wouldn't be head, three cheers for Mary Berry as pm instead. Would we have ever left the EU? Say 'bygo......Read the rest...

...How many galleons per mile Were spread the grand Armada fleet, Hoping strong England to defile After a huge naval defeat? Surging steady through stormy seas How many galleons per mile To drag......Read the rest...

...I’m striding with my jacket, you turn off the rifle You lead me by the hand, because I can’t say so You say you don’t love me, but you pull me close Early morning, I trail your footsteps You say ......Read the rest...

...On ever rushing glowing light; Surprised by the ultimate Immersed through the waters bright multiple cellular truculent covenant How Nature's passion stirs up my reactions Climate change so d......Read the rest...

...II: i want to see you across from me at a table in a cafe in 1. Cartegena :II repeat II: i want to see you across from me at a table in a cafe in 2. Calais :II repeat II: i want to ......Read the rest...

...Translation of « On est les oubliés » (They/We are the neglected and forgotten lot) by the songster-poet Gauvin SERS (For the last two years, this young unassuming Frenchman, full of verve and d......Read the rest...