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Essex Poems - Poems about Essex

Can't biff the Pontiff

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Dope boundary rope tropes…fans hopes..Ollie copes..thick skin…will find the strength within…ignores the din…as Pope unleashes that boyish grin..

Can hear Freddie and David…ddddd..Under Pressure…...
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Categories: essex, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEURO WINNER

...Essex girl Sandie Shaw
bare-footed held the floor
Famed for a Puppet-on-a-string
her win made all England sing...
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Categories: essex, song,
Form: Clerihew

Premium Memberthanks Santa

...Let's wax poetic - wax on..

We’re in for it
When we enter
the insubstantial country of love

That secret theater, in an invisible mansion of moods

it’s a resort that houses its share of...
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Categories: essex, boyfriend, christmas, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse

Paterson, New Jersey December 1, 1957

...Paterson, New Jersey December 1, 1957

Amidst the *****sapien species 
one anonymous baby birthed:
I recount one little known piece of news
which one young married couple did enthuse,
profusely...
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Categories: essex, adventure, age, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Soaking Up the Sounds

...He wished it to be  full of sound.
round about the way successful
collaborations are done.
Fun: done: and Right.
Sought of like taking the featured
artist's position and elaborating on it.
Peop...
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Categories: essex, creation, culture, encouraging, leadership,
Form: Ballade

Divine Warrior

...DIVINE WARRIOR

It certainly is a real English name
And true English, of Angle origin
But some may say, Viking Norse
There are two name components
God and Bear, or Divine Warrior
Like King Art...
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Categories: essex, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Streets of Olde Salem

...My footsteps echoed the echoes of Time
as through the streets of Salem I walked.
The hour was early and the city still asleep
with only a cat sitting quietly on a cold granite sill,
the sky slowl...
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Categories: essex, halloween, history, october, seasons,
Form: Rhyme

Essex Harvest

...Saturday was shopping then a walk Epping,Ongar,Finchingfield by car

Reading book reviews and chewing stalks

Buttercups and meadows,Henry Moore

Driving back from Chelmsford, cornfields flamed...
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Categories: essex, emotions, happiness, nature,
Form: Sonnet

Essex Fields

...Saturday was shopping then a walk Epping,Ongar,Finchingfield by car

Reading book reviews and chewing stalks

Buttercups and meadows,Henry Moore

Driving back from Chelmsford, cornfields flamed...
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Categories: essex, 3rd grade, allegory, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

Inner Fires

...An artist’s canvas stretched , a matricide
Saturday was shopping then a walk
Epping,Ongar,Finchingfield by car
Reading book reviews and chewing stalks
Buttercups and meadows,Henry Moore

Drivin...
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Categories: essex, allegory, allusion, angst, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberMoby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or Beast

...Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Haw...
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Categories: essex, angst, character, conflict, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse

In a Tiny Rustic Cabin

...In a tiny, rustic cabin
In the hills of Tennessee
Is where my weary mother
Bravely gave birth to me.

In a tiny, rustic cabin
In the hills of Tennessee
Is where I patiently waited,
‘Till some...
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Categories: essex, appreciation, encouraging, endurance, family,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWitchfinder General Matthew Hopkins

...Rode around Essex with murder in mind
With evil followers from town to town
Matthew Hopkins was the worst of his kind
Hunting for witches that he could take down.

Towns people would say ...
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Categories: essex, death, england, evil, horror,
Form: Sonnet

Fosse Way

...Legend of Fosse Way

Riding hard under a moonlight high 
not a leaf rustling and it troubles my mind
In the distance there's music of the lyre and flute 
rippling over the moors
Serenading the ...
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Categories: essex, england,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberThe Hawaiian In Keanu

...From one film to the other, your creative styles,
Rebels joined, save a world, then you, sacrificed a girl,
Online programmers that you had caused their riles,
Mr. Santino wanted New York as part ...
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Categories: essex, betrayal, conflict, dark, power,
Form: Acrostic

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