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Downland Poems - Poems about Downland

Nature Rhyme Time

...beechwoods downland 
           common heath
chalky soil 
      inches beneath

trees 
      jostling tall
leaf,yellow-brown 
          in Autumn fall

fallow deer feed 
    at dawn and du...

Categories: downland, autumn, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Liddington Hill Rispetto

...There is one image forever in my mind
Downland ridge, a back-cloth to my forming years
Like a table, bare, where ancestors once dined
An ikon potent that in my thought adheres 
It’s sensation - v...

Categories: downland, places,
Form: Rispetto

Going Home

...There are places that connect us to our past
Points of anchor which once linked us to known havens
Those forms, reflections printed on our hearts
Evoke forgotten times as icons graven
And flag an...

Categories: downland, home,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A Nature Memory

...inspired by nature contest theme

Beechwoods,downland and common heath,
Chalky soil inches beneath;
Trees,jostling tall,
Leaf,yellow-brown in Autumn,fall;
Fallow deer feed at dawn and dusk,
Tr...

Categories: downland, childhood, nature,
Form: Bio

An English Childhood Idyll

...re-post inspired by Constance contest

Beechwoods,downland and common heath,
Chalky soil inches beneath;
Trees,jostling tall,
Leaf,yellow-brown in Autumn,fall;
Fallow deer feed at dawn and dusk...

Categories: downland, places,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)

Northern England

...NORTHERN   ENGLAND

Steep hills and sudden

Gouged by ice, and water-formed -

This is no  civilized  landscape gentle

With  demesne and orchard

And sun-kissed downland copses;

It is t...

Categories: downland, home,
Form: Free verse

My Times Recited

...IMAGINE THIS
When I was young,in summer sun
the excitement of life,just begun,
hours seemed like days, and days
by brooklets,still,we lazed;
When I was young,in poverty
simple pleasures were had ,for...

Categories: downland, family, nostalgia,
Form: Bio

Gateshead Gate - Crash

...These steep hills are part of me
Where I learned to ride a bike
And gazed over the industrial haze
And ice-dammed the steep melting  streets
So the toy boat couldn’t
Drift out of control downslope.

...

Categories: downland, memory, education,
Form: Free verse

In Fellowship

...Come take my hand & walk with me
an English country scene we'll see,
down green lanes and over stiles,
we'll walk, and walk, for miles;
Come take my side and stroll awhile,
in Spring meadows wit...

Categories: downland, nature, places
Form: Sonnet

Chiltern Childhood

...Beechwoods,downland and common heath,
Chalky soil inches beneath;
Trees,jostling tall,
Leaf,yellow-brown in Autumn,fall;
Fallow deer feed at dawn and dusk,
Treading flat the beechnut husk;
Open...

Categories: downland, childhood, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Pastoral