Cheltenham Races
...Watched the steeplechase races at Cheltenham
At the haywall a jockey fell off
His horse though continued to ride
And came first – what a great finish that was.
The name of the horse is Fiddleron...
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Categories:
cheltenham, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Express Train
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Door open,
hurtling loud and at full speed
towards my destination,
beneath me a blur
of mounded ballast
and withered grass,
the world coming into focus more
the further out I look -
graffi...
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Categories:
cheltenham, life, memory, time,
Form: Free verse
Gunfighter Ballad For a Modern World
...He was the world’s last gun fighter
And he always worked in drag
Carrying his six shooters
In a special velvet bag.
No boots and spurs to jingle
As in to town he rode,
Just patent leather s...
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Categories:
cheltenham, fantasy, humor, irony, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
I Heard Something On the Wireless
...I heard something on the wireless
As i went about my day,
Some new strain of virus
In some province far away.
I didn’t pay much attention
As it seemed a distant threat.
Well that was my conte...
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Categories:
cheltenham, change, endurance, humanity, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Classified Part Two
...We turned off before reaching Kings Lynn and headed down a road that would take us to Henderson Aerodrome a local flying school, we were waved through the main gate and headed onto the main runway an...
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Categories:
cheltenham, science fiction,
Form: Prose
The Pastor's Daughter Nelly
...I’ll tell you all a story
Tis one close to my heart
Has love, Has life, It has a cow
A haystack torn apart
The man in question?
Well that be me.
The setting?
Cheltenham Town
So gather all, come, sit ...
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Categories:
cheltenham, farm, fun, girl, humorous,
Form: Lyric