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Govan Poems - Poems about Govan


Premium Member St Govan Chapel
...Saint Govan’s Chapel They stood with their raincoats and rubber boots at the top of the cliff Clothed in anger and fear they braced the elements and honoured the Saint A hermit had lived in ......

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Categories: govan, love,
Form: Free verse
Growing Up In Govan As a Wain
...Growing up in govan as a wain We didny have much in they days But we'd wid never complain . We were happy way wat Yeh geed Nae body gret or yed get a slap on the heid. Aw the games we aw used t......

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Categories: govan, childhood,
Form: ABC



Govan Lass Written In Glesga Slang
...Am a lass fae Govan There a wiz born n breid When a wiz wee a wiz playing tig on the dykes N a split ma poor wee heid Fae Glesga to Fife Wiz where we went To a flat in Methil That ma maw goa......

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Categories: govan, adventure,
Form: Verse
Glass Ceiling
...I was born in Green Valley, west of Liverpool, west of Sydney, Australia. It's like being born in the Bronx, or Tottenham, or Shankhill, or Govan in Glasgow. I might as well have been born there to......

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Categories: govan, change, class, faith, history,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Pride of the Bhoys
...Known they are as the Lisbon Lions But of the West of Scotland were they scions. Etched in history is their name Because of that 1967 game. Immortality upon them is endowed As they made the......

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Categories: govan, funeral, nostalgia, sports,
Form: Rhyme




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