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Downland Poems - Poems about Downland

Downland Poems - Examples of all types of poems about downland to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for downland.

Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: downland, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: downland, childhood, nature,
Form: Bio
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: downland, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
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. ......Read the rest...
Categories: downland, memory, education,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: downland, nature, places
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: downland, childhood, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Pastoral

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