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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
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examples for 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......
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Brian Strand
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......
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Geoffrey Brewer
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......
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©
Geoffrey Brewer
Categories:
downland,
home,
Form:
Rhyme
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......
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©
Brian Strand
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......
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©
Brian Strand
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......
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©
Sidney Beck
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......
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©
Brian Strand
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. ......
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Sidney Beck
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......
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©
Brian Strand
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......
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©
Brian Strand
Categories:
downland,
childhood, nature, nostalgia,
Form:
Pastoral