Ghyll Poems - Poems about Ghyll

Leaf

...Leaf

It wasn’t the time to leave,
but stem chewed and gale combined and the leaf fell.
Hairstreak, full green not yet ready,
not curled by summer’s end, crisped by West Coast salt, mottled by f...

Categories: ghyll, environment, loss, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse

From My Prison Cell

...Another moment goes by, another monumental stride
day by day, year by year wind-borne dreams
cascade amongst perpetual memories, gifts of light
that penetrates through the windows of time, the cla...

Categories: ghyll, fate, hope,
Form: Haibun

Somewhere To Go

...It was a cloud burst on that ominous bleak stormy day
The beck in ‘Johnny Walker’s Ghyll’ overflowed blocked our way.

Yet with speculation and tenacity we kids waded
Where ‘Back Lane’ once follo...

Categories: ghyll, childhood, meaningful, society,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Selcouth Folly

...Wrapt in the otiose aumbry of pride
A glede hythe a quiff will gust aside
Her folly selcouth
Binds her  fast to her wanweird
To speak ever sooth
She is thrawn, my sister, my coëval
Into fell Tr...

Categories: ghyll, age, anger, angst, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Childhood Theme Park

...Childhood Theme Park

In the shadow of Ilkley Moor,
Cow and Calf rocks watch over.
Growing up in a rural town,
A childhood hillside rover.
Flowing like the River Wharfe,
Young days of endless ...

Categories: ghyll, adventure, appreciation, childhood, happy,
Form: Rhyme

Donny Brook Doth Runnel Along

...Generating a ring
     of bright waters, which
currently meanders, ponders,
     and then streams - twitch
ching reflexively as flora
     and fauna lap rich
text chard liquid
     timelessly ...

Categories: ghyll, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Tightly Grasps His Soul

...He that walks most tall amongst men
amongst men has the furthest to fall,
when in ancient times in yonder Scar Ghyll
brazen stood the hanging tree
without redundancy.
The morning had not yet spo...

Categories: ghyll, deep, destiny,
Form: Verse

The Cut

...A country yearns industry
from assiduous minds revolutionary,
cities conceived with mind set and skill
yet lay insipid in the body of Britannia
those in need of life’s blood,
akin to human organ...

Categories: ghyll, inspirational, memorial,
Form: Free verse

The Green Eyed Lad

...~The Green Eyed Lad~
Nah Then, I’d like to spin you a yarn and weave a story for you to enjoy
It’s about a lad I know and I would have liked to have met as a boy
He is well traveled an...

Categories: ghyll, friendship, fun, green, longing,
Form: Quatrain

The Hanging Tree

...In ancient times in yonder Hebers Ghyll*
alone stood the hanging tree---
stagnant redundancy.

*Hebers Ghyll Ilkley West Yorshire UK

 © Harry J Horsman 2012...

Categories: ghyll, nature,
Form: Kimo

Giant Rombald's Moorland Delight

...To embrace
life’s analytic myth
to inspire
nature’s symbolic smile,
to manoeuvre
amidst northern skies of blue
to roam
chauvinistic contours sensitive and true.
To perceive
inclement purple ...

Categories: ghyll, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Safe Haven

...The clouds wept that bleak stormy Wednesday

The stream in the farm land ghyll overflowed.


Shrouded within the moorland mist 

The water rose then rose and rose


Yet with renewed hope an...

Categories: ghyll,
Form: Couplet

Looking In

...Moment by moment
         day by day,
         year by year.
         Wind-borne dreams
         cascading amongst
         perpetual memories,
         gifts of light that
         penetrates...

Categories: ghyll,
Form: Narrative