Long Newcastle Poems

UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: Tongue-Teasers - XLIX

« Third Degree » is when you add « Insult to injury ».

If you take everything everybody says with a « pinch of salt », we’ll soon be able to drink...

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I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it
On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the
dingo’s call?  It couldn’t be as all
Round me were the sounds of...

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I wanted to write & testify, one-time suicidal Dr. Anil Deo, is reborn during second half-century on earth! Yes, Jesus is real to me, to revive hope and the desire to live or write, or...

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Legend Of The Black Dove  
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Legend Of The Black Dove  

                  (Part 9)   "The Voyage To Where ?"

 

The weather...

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Part 1
1958 (Introduction to employment)

         Often I drift back to the days, where it all began. To feel again
the sharp brisk morning air against my inferior nakedness,
whilst...

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Layered Cake pt 2

Further afield I met a gangster in Liverpool who was alrite
He liked a right tear up and had a job to appear legit
But his real work was in various things like drugs,...

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When poet Tennyson was very young,
He was a handsome tiny son, 
Who loved playing tennis under the sun.

When in his teens,
Tennyson excelled at his studies 
So much so that he won the admiration of 
Adorable...

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NEWCASTLE  UPON  TYNE,    ENGLAND

Half-Scot,  half-English  and  ill at ease with the past,
Newcastle is sooty black from its coaly drama, 
And  the breathless town was always ...

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A Perfect Company
By: Noel N. Villarosa


They are the big fish in a small pond
They received kudos and power widely
With their bunch of fives used as their wand
They dominate while sitting idly

Been tasked in carrying coals...

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My start in life was not round here, 
Newcastle was my home, 
But now I've spent 20yrs in washington where I roam, 
Now I wonder what is left, 
A hopeless future at its best, 
A...

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They're selling off our Airport, does anybody care? 
The old Gazette's done nothing yet, no 'Save it' campaign there 
The Echo there in Darlo seems quite reluctant to 
Investigate the Peel Magnate and what they're...

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LONDON     JOURNEY    FASCINATION

First time on a mainline LNER   train  *
When you’re  five’s  a signal whistle
For six hours Kings Cross   to ...

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Susie was inspired by the Beijing Paralympics, 
To pursue her talent at swimming, to train hard, 
So she was classified as an S7, deformed limbs,
And won three medals in London, one in Rio. 

She has...

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With the wasp women on her heels 
Thackray needed to cut a deal 
In order to keep enjoying sorority gourmet prepaid meals 
Taking a seat to watch Jay 
She had a lot to say 
This...

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Chelsea FC Takes Abramovich's Fall


Europe is responsible for the war, 
not CFC...who is taking the fall.

US played the devil's advocate de facto,
Putin turn deaf hears, no word from NATO.
Perpetual and cruel hatred longering,
UK government shy...

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There are lots of things that are black and white,
Like zebras and Newcastle United, they are a good team and get their fans excited.

Penguins are mostly black and white, but some have coloured plumage too,
There...

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Tonight there is a match on telly
The lads are coming round 
most of them are married
So my home is to be the neutral ground .

If any of their wives ring 
I'm to pretend that I...

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This photo was taken in St James Church Graveyard, Benwell, Newcastle, 
Tyne & Wear, England, UK,

I just thought the tree stump resembled a Gargoyle, hence Gavin got his 
new name, on the close-up photo you...

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Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dackel  was nine
                          He sniffed the breeze for...

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Arsenal first Friday, always start well
New signings too, will give Leicester hell
Arsenal easy, next,

Liverpool in the early game, a win at a canter
Watford offer up more presents than Santa
Arsenal easy, Liverpool canter, next,

Chelsea at the...

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The north of England,
Is without a doubt,
A massive community,
That is paramount.

It’s a place where people,
Express their talent,
A place where people,
Should go if they haven’t.

A magical place,
Of women and men,
With the angel of the north,
Instead of...

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The Sea Gull

The one-legged seagull king that lived on the last reef
before the ocean began had lived long, longer than gulls normally do
He came from a sturdy breed that for generations had lived
at the edge...

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CULLERCOATS   *

Warm  brown sandstone cottage walls 
Doors and  windows very old
Shelter face from  sea-wind squalls:
Inside, tales of sea are   told

Toy shops there with spinning  windmills
Fisher - women...

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The love not spoken of 

Newcastle and it was summer I had been paid off
from my ship and sat a the train station waiting for 
a train to take me to Liverpool when a young...

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