Croydon Poems - Poems about Croydon

...You're wearing a Sombrero though you're not on holiday Do your children wash behind their ears? An aladdin's cave is awaiting you Its down Croydon with a topical Sunday Market The Autumn c......Read the rest...

...In the memorizing firelight flicker comes rebirth as the valley of Crocus flowers becomes a corporate castle of skyscrapers the taller the better The middle of Croydon once of offices has se......Read the rest...

...The tidyings of a town here we are in Croydon trying to make a stand Seen so many charges a 15% council tax rise, fall from clumsy hands Our Whitgift centre a shell of a complex! The whole tow......Read the rest...

...They are closing the shops the town planners are leaving on the tram, semi millionaires hoover at the half a million flats how did it get this way? possibly i'm bothered! ripping out the centr......Read the rest...

...You're a Street Map that has to be believed. George Street 1975 then a jewel in everybody's Crown, Mister K too. Croydon had it all, the weekly Safeway shopping - Grants , North End, Greyhound and......Read the rest...

...Croydons just a new build away if it wasn't for the once East European office blocks fad its now inviting human capital to dwell in jolly new builds and with the new Westfield proposed most indi......Read the rest...

...hoardings of shops on the isle of ridiculousness the feral pigeons pontificate the leaking roof of the civic theatre stays you've seen better days you've blundered into desperation bankrupted t......Read the rest...

...Indisputably bankrupted deux times boardings on stalled windows Recession unproofed bundles of betwichted people aloff clumsily lost Waitrose and still the Fairfield roof leaks Queens gardens i......Read the rest...

...When I was 12 our family arrived at Croydon. Everything seemed grander a real Municipal town we had record and camera shops and departmental stores everything seemed geared for conspicuous expe......Read the rest...

...You've aged well with Conviction Guarding your yesteryears of residential Presbyterian Thornton Heath in 58 and Kennards in the town centre Bygone Croydon days with Grants and Allders, crown jew......Read the rest...

...Maybe we should erect a love story to Croydon Celebrate its Pound shops and diminishing shopping spaces Love a shank bone instead of a unmeritorious knife and await the snow hoping its gritted ......Read the rest...

...I see I am almost 60 The river of life has sped by Sweet accounts are needed Thank God I remember the 60s sane relics of the past Kaftans and roll-ups strain to the sounds blonde this and th......Read the rest...

...We used to have buttermilk and Austrian white wine from Safeways and used to buy 2nd hand Prog from Beanos The years have sped by and I'm not recalling any standout shop now Unless you include ......Read the rest...

...Pensive in Croydon colors blazing intensely lazy day complete afternoon furiously fighting for extra moments......Read the rest...

...( Poem about Kurdish Iranian teenager attacked in Croydon) Refugee boy Just 17 Yet your eyes have seen so much Now so far from home and loved ones You thought you were free from danger In ......Read the rest...