Long Derbyshire Poems

My mother's name was Seraphine
A sadder child was never seen 
Her duty was to serve the table
Of newly widowed Mrs. Grable

Her husband Mr. Grable died
To keep the British gratified
For which the lady, born and bred
Was...

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Circumstances
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Circumstances leaves you few A chances.
No nick, no pick, no give me more.
Just a little sauce.
No custard tart.
You in shoestring circumstance
It's rough-and-tumble
In the orphan grumble.

All I can stitch together in memory is my big...

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The key's to life
The poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Too hell with pessimism...
I say
Let us sway away from end of life
And poem about life key's
We lookout for a prom
And see a sun ball
Up in the middle of sky
Vivid a...

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Earth
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Coying the myth .. 

Earth.. birth brings you here
Your status qou will unfold
On adventure either as king or queen,  mr president, bishop or cardinal.
A branded tennis player, a balanced balarina, thief or theatrical...

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Imagine they find your bones
in a boggy field -
it happens all the time,
speaking of which,

time is your pocket handkerchief,
your wristwatch,
and your best evening pants
all reduced to insect dust.

Only a fragment
(a rust-addled skimpy second hand)
remains to...

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The year was sixteen-sixty-four
A comet crossed the sky,
And Londoners looked on in fear
Convinced the end was nigh.

The streets which once were paved with gold
Were now awash with waste.
A swarm of flies and scourge of rats
Foretold...

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I once told a story about my 
Ex-girlfriend Gormless Sue
Well that was part one
And this is part two

Gormless Sue had a farm
She lived in a cosy warm house
But she made me sleep in an old...

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Ides of Brussels
Rapport
Lionel Derbyshire

“Lennon asked the world to live as one ..
There is a harmony of birdsongs in his song. 
Jackson made a change when he looked in the mirror ..
Steven’s rejoiced .. My Sweet...

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Mr Wilby
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Mr Wilby Mr Wilby..contemporary
Our teacher so A extraordinary
Upholding and guarding discipline
Buffed our learning to a shining

Class
Discamus .. paratus es ?
Wilby Wilby say

Gently He said good morning
Let us learn .. are you ready ?
Told...

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Contemplate
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

And did mine mind
wander to places be
on leaving grey mouths
behind back home
now alone ..
still I sit at a lake
in the park 
named consolation
and contemplate ..
watching calm silver water
sliver into small waves.
I am in quiet...

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Chant Jesus
A psalm
Lionel Derbyshire

Jesus Jesus saviour of souls
Jesus Jesus
Lift us
Lift me high
In the spirit God
Strengthen us
Restore my loss
Redeem us Lord of God
Jesus Jesus saviour of our souls
Jesus Jesus
Heal our ill
Keep us healthy
No more pain Lord
Will...

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Millicent 
My Lady Darling Dear.
Lionel Derbyshire

I could not say goodbye
I did not want to ..
There will be no more
Hello dear's ..
My lady darling dear.

A pale winter morning in May
Came passing by
To lift you higher
At GOD'...

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My name is Zariyia Bradshaw;

I am a princess, a Daughter of the Most High God;
His child a little girl;
Surname: Bradshaw;
Distinguished;
Child of promised Little Daughter of God;
Old English name from century Lancashire-Yorkshire and Derbyshire;
From form of...

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A rage at air
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

A rage at air ..
The fly, the sparrow, the ostrich in air collision goes ..

Why all the rage ..
Fly asked the sparrow
Your temper is full of bad anger
This long body ostrich
Nearly...

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Funny Numbers
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

2 Whom it may
Concern
Numb I have suffered
And by God done I am
Lord.. 
So many characters 
Too many teachers
Yell and try to tell
How to sauce 
The spice of life
By virtue
Two are true
So boo woo
And I...

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Plank or axle
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Two lad's halted child
And men mature bolted out
One chose the plank
The other the axle
They laboured hard
For the slog on commission
They had to do
They sweated all the year's
And ripened old.
They fathered two a...

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Soulmendilian
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

The fairy field in far away land has a mystery bounce in emerald hills 
Our  maiden Catherine is captive in a stadium.
O we come from overseas and over hills in agony panting faintly...

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Sit with me a while, here on the soft green grass, that hides the Gentian Violet and the Daisy peeping through and watch how the soft cool wind lifts the fronds of Willow, hanging down...

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The Merry Minstrel of Mickleover

I strike this chord without a sword
For I am not so brave
Whence came a knight with armour bright
Who vowed princess to save

The wicked sire of the shire
Had seen well to kidnap
The...

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Blossom
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Road trip to Blossom
My growing up home
It is a farm place
In sunshine and
Fresh ozone
Lush and green.
I'm heading there
I'm going home

Driving on 
Like running wonder
I'm going home,
I'm comin home
Run wonder.

Onward hill's break past
Heading on ..
Bouncing...

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(Apologies to any cowboys in Derbyshire)

The telegraph came through, but just in time
before my coach had passed the county line
mah girl wuz all alone and in distress
and only one guy could go save her- well,...

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Applicant's
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

" To be or not to be "

Destiny is a walk
Which is long
It never steps backwards%
The day I became an applicant
I feared the blank holes
To insert and answer on
Ice cold I frozen hoped
To complete...

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The Head's
A narrative poem
Lionel Derbyshire

My grandpa is like the mountain
I strive to scribe.

Around a Indian ocean
Of her flat mountain
Twains a head and peak
Of lion and devil
Left and right.
Heft steady her burden.
It weighs rhino strong
Like my...

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Phil embraced his disability when he acquired it, 
And took up the disability sport of para-triathlon, 
Where you swim, cycle and race a set distance:
He broke his back in 1991 in a cycling incident. 

His...

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Abuse
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Abuse
Lord this reader ..
Blessings are needed
In the suffering
Of male troubling

Mummy mummy !!
The baby yells until yellow
He bashes her 
Behind close doors
Her beauty
His jealous prize.

He is possessive
And aggressive
On nothing suspicious
His face is vicious

Daily she prays
The...

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