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Geordie Poems - Poems about Geordie

Premium Member The Celestial NAAFI
... 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......

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Categories: geordie, military,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Geordie Joy
...massed magpies in a black and white city united in joy ......

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Categories: geordie, city, football, happiness, pride,
Form: Haiku



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 ......

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Categories: geordie, happy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: geordie, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
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......

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Categories: geordie, military, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



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......

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Categories: geordie, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: geordie, city,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: geordie, bereavement, memorial, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: geordie, best friend, celebration, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: geordie, bereavement, military, obituary, tribute,
Form: Free verse
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 ......

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Categories: geordie, words,
Form: Imagism
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......

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Categories: geordie, brother, funny, humorous,
Form: Verse
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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Categories: geordie, memory, education,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: geordie, places
Form: Verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: geordie, on writing and words,
Form: Quatrain

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