Croydon Poems - Poems about Croydon

You bankrupted us thrice and closed our Libraries and pools You created a property portfolio and played speculation Now you leave chasms in the town centre Croydon do we deserve Labour ? You compulsively bought houses and turned them into flats not respecting green uniformity just a by word for affordability The Party machine spins unapologetic Croydon I feel very low You played Russian roulette and can't tell...

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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 seen it possibilities light up like a condensed can of milk The ill afforded indigenous are shied away from rent replaced by a smart set of commuters with a whiff of disdain for the ailing amenities of...

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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 town has a forgotten ring Do the dangly dance now A town in remission isn't too grand...

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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 centre, to make sure any indigenous, person couldn't join the scheme, when did you stop being my town?...

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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 L & H Cloake, even a Manhattan skyline - Shop girls I was too young to know a la W.H Smith's Whitgift Centre with a...

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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 indigenous inhabitants will sell up. They knocked down the Warehouse Theatre to prove barbarians rule. The Central library feels lobotomised is it part privatised ? Nothing lasts or stands for...

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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 twice and now you're turning the middle of town into millionaires row ill afforded by the minions even our local Market is shrinking an ebb tide of the municipality Westfield as vexing as a fox in...

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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 is no longer bespoke its tenable for climbing children We've still not lost the war culture exists and I'm eternally grateful Poets Anonymous and Poets hour at the library provides the same echo of the past...

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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 expenditure We seemed not to have beggars in the street and the greenline buses took us to country lines My secondary school seemed good as were our teachers We had night clubs and gigging places Like...

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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 jewels and Beatles at the festive Fairfield Halls 63 and Young Conservatives 64 in Purley...

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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 in your Bankrupt Croydon so wonderfully mismanaged...

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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 the durable Buddist centre Toothless gaps in the town square The Whitgift Centre is half empty Samsung Mobile shop is closed The years have not been very Kind The sound...

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

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