Ilkley Poems - Poems about Ilkley

...Well hi there this soft voice said As i walked in through my door. It only took me seconds to see It came from a puddle on the floor. It rippled and it writhed Seemed to sort of expand And ......Read the rest...

...Charles Darwin’s House I was born in Darwin’s House, After the Christmas of Fifty-Four, Right on the Edge of Ilkley Moor, Charles lived there, just a bit before. St Winifred was its name in ......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...We’ve been lost all these years in time across the ocean A license to yearn for a litany of emotion, Our youthfulness to burn in a life of devotion An intellect to earn an ideal, a whim a notion. ......Read the rest...

...biting cold nipping on footpath across the mere a window to life © Harry J Horsman 2017......Read the rest...

...Return Of The Tyke Tyke, tyke, tyke' they’d chant to bait the bairn. But insult hurled at Yorkshire folk is water off a back. Take it, use it, grind it through the crank As fuel for ......Read the rest...

...(Told to me by a patient, when working as a builder’s labourer at Menston’s asylum 1963) This little middle aged lady, watched and followed me around for two days, when I was working on a r......Read the rest...

...To put an end to the myth that Santa lives in Lapland Santa is a Yorkshire man everybody knows that People just say he's from Lapland, cos he’s round and fat. Well Yorkshire men can be the same they......Read the rest...

...(An Addingham Poem) Many words have been written many more have been said, about this verdant countryside which lives on in one’s head. The many faces of the beacon no matter from where one l......Read the rest...

...In ancient times in yonder Hebers Ghyll* alone stood the hanging tree--- stagnant redundancy. *Hebers Ghyll Ilkley West Yorshire UK © Harry J Horsman 2012......Read the rest...

...To stop the myth going around that Santa is a Scotsman, a huge hit on the radio here. So fo those that believe this is the truth. Santa is a Yorkshire man everybody knows that You just say he is Sc......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...