Baneful Brickbats Begat Grievous Barrier
...Baneful brickbats begat grievous barrier
Tell tale indelible woe y'all
privy to learn yours truly harbors
traces of the masterful
impregnable prepubescent wall
still extant scads of decades si...
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Categories:
guildhall, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Disparate Love
...A professor of difficult sums
Who led a simple and useful life
Till he met Big Bertha from Beverley
And took her to be his wife.
It was a convention of difficult sums
On the logistics of long h...
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Categories:
guildhall, fun, happy, humor, love,
Form: Rhyme
Hull Cenotaph, Remembrance Sunday, 2018
...The Guildhall clock chimes
Eleven times this special day,
A great silence descends as
The two minutes tick away.
On parade at the Cenotaph,
An old man among old men
(Where did the years go for
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Categories:
guildhall, anniversary, emotions, patriotic, remembrance
Form: Rhyme
My Town
...From north, south, east and west
This is the town to beat the rest,
Where history and present blend
As through its many streets you wend.
Where once a monastery so great
From every view woul...
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Categories:
guildhall, city, history, home, me,
Form: Rhyme
Baneful Brickbats Begat Grievous Barrier
...Traces of the masterful
impregnable prepubescent wall
still extant scads of decades since
complex edifice erected to force tall
permanently leaving me unmoored,
marooned, and furloughed ready fo...
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Categories:
guildhall, analogy, discrimination, heartbreak, image,
Form: Free verse
Nine Seventeen
...Huddled in Burton's doorway, head down,
the windblown rain at almost forty five degrees
soaking me from the knees downwards.
Reflecting on the paving, the red, amber and green
from the traffic li...
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Categories:
guildhall, time,
Form: Free verse
Around the Corner
...I wont tell you the stories he has told me,
or the reason why for weeks and months
he couldn’t sleep.
About the walk around the corner,
he kept walking round that corner,
walking round that corner
fo...
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Categories:
guildhall, life, loss, sad, war,
Form: Free verse
Pamphlet (Birth of a Constitution)
...London’s Guildhall, John Lilburne is frogmarched in
A man Cromwell considered a friend,
To stand before him accused of high treason
His actions against parliament to defend
As radical leader of...
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Categories:
guildhall, history, political
Form: Quatrain