Long Northumbrian Poems
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Translation: Ech Day Me Cometh Tydinges ThreEch day me cometh tydinges thre
"Each Day Three Tidings Come to Me"
(anonymous Middle English poem, circa the 13th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Each day I’m plagued by three doles,
These gargantuan weights on my...
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Categories:
northumbrian, angst, anxiety, death, depression, england, fear, sorrow,
Form:
Couplet
Gateshead Gate - CrashThese steep hills are part of me
Where I learned to ride a bike
And gazed over the industrial haze
And ice-dammed the steep melting streets
So the toy boat couldn’t
Drift out of control downslope.
Now, like snow...
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Categories:
northumbrian, memory, education,
Form:
Free verse
Hero's Return In Armada MassJune 6th 1944
An Armada masses at Europe's door
Five sector landings, 160,000 troops
On the following beaches, our hero's would swoop
Utah, Omaha, Juno, Sword and Gold
Allow me to write, as my story unfolds
We, 50th Northumbrian Infantry
To...
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Categories:
northumbrian, angst, death, family, history, life, loss, peace,
Form:
Rhyme
Newcastle - Northumbrian CityNEWCASTLE - NORTHUMBRIAN CITY
Half-English, half-Scot: martial roots in the past,
Newcastle - once dark from its coaly drama -
A breathless place ever ready for...
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Categories:
northumbrian, city, history,
Form:
Imagism
Northern EnglandNORTHERN ENGLAND
Steep hills and sudden
Gouged by ice, and water-formed -
This is no civilized landscape gentle
With demesne and orchard
And sun-kissed downland copses;
It is the terrain of warfare,
Of Northumbrian tearing at Scot,
Of...
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Categories:
northumbrian, home,
Form:
Free verse