Geordie Poems

The Celestial NAAFI

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The Celestial NAAFI

Well there sits old Buck like he always did,
Waving his pipe and tilting his lid.
There’s Johnny and Ronny and Shep and old Taffy,
And Soapy still d...

Geordie Joy

...massed magpies
in a black and white city
united in joy




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Geordie Blues

...All through the last winter
I sat on my own
Playing Cushie Butterfield
On my xylophone
I tried it as a two step
I tried it as waltz
Its not easy on a xylophone
To avoid playing shmaltz
But I ...

Clerihew Bewick

...Painter Pauline Bewick a Geordie
loved water colours as a medium you see
A carefree Bohemian spirit
when she in this mood saw fit...

Just a Remembrance

...Young lads in their teens and Gung Ho,
Signed on the dotted, all said let's go.
A bedraggled bunch were dumped at the gate,
A sergeant trying to form us up straight.
Stopped at each spider to dro...

Auld Lang Syne the Most Sung New Years Eve Song

...“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song

Courtesy Robert Burns
circa  (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the Ploughman Poet.

Two hundred si...

Mean Streets

...Newspaper blows along rain-washed streets,
dying echoes of hash tags and tweets
promising hook-ups, flash mobs and meets,
long gone to their bed-sits and urban retreats.

Puddles painted with ne...

Rip Steve

...In tilshead I met a good guy
Unfortunately he has now gone
Taken to the angels in the sky
His name was Steve baron

A North Eastern lad thats for sure
A kind heart all so pure
Talented linguis...

The Reunion

...The Reunion

I’ve been invited to a classroom reunion,
I can see my old chums over there.
Geordie Cockle has got a green suit on,
While Denver Crisp, is sporting no hair.

These people don’t l...

Rip Tony

...Another sad day for the Corps 
At the passing of a good lad
A loving husband 
A fantastic dad

Airborne blood running through your veins 
Leading from the front pulling those reins
Inspiring y...

Only To the Dog

...ONLY   TO THE  DOG


Dialect abandoned with education and travel  
Now only speak Geordie to the dog on walks
In unguarded moments
Awkwardly recalling how the pronunciation goes:
No longer an ...

Geordie

...Geordie is ma brother; some say he is a hero!
Me, ah ken better an’ his rating’s close tae zero!
He likes tae hog the flair wi’ jokes oh say dreary’
Efter twenty meenits we grow a wee tadge weary.

H...

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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Scotland

...SCOTLAND

Very big sign on highway A1   going southways    
Out of Scotland into England,  
Painted with thistles, tartans, bagpipes,  says
“Haste ye back to bonnie Scotland”.
The  other side o...

Commenter's, I Thank You

...Now where does this Highlander start
To thank those commenter's, present and past
So many read and absorbed
Their kindness to me always lasts

Dr.Ram and Carol Brown
My African Queen 'Miss Wilm...

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