Long Sherwood Poems

Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...

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A prawn masquerading as a peanut can be quite disturbing. So many times a peel is a garment used to shroud. A tentacle hidden. Here and there. Then to reappear with an often violent burst...

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Sipping cherry limeade, driving in the car parade, 
we're cruising in the Lone Star state.
Didn't want a bucket seat; the thing it couldn't beat, 
was sitting up close to your date.
One hand on the wheel...

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There's an archer dressed in Lincoln green, a friend to those in need.
No thief is he who offers encouragement to people with kind deeds.

A jealous sheriff, dressed in black, wants to rule Ole Nottingham,
a township...

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You too would hide behind the hood                            ...

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I remember the land of drums I was born
  bedded beneath great hanging nets;
          the sound of the conch and the horn.
My blue suitcase filled...

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When I
   was just 
    starting my
      adult life, first
        job after college
     ...

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Robin Hood

It was in the time of John
In the days that have long gone
When the plight of right and wrong
A test was set

It took a man of iron will
To battle on until
A nation he would...

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I am her child again...
I'm wearing my pink flannel pajamas, the ones with tiny roses.
I'm curled up in the middle of her big four-poster.
And watching her dress for the party.
She has just fastened the clasp...

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The Watcher 
The Watcher 
When the seventeen men neared the end of the bridge only one remained in 
sight all the others were lost in the shadow from the moonlight. He was dressed 
in tattered...

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In Days of Robin Hood

In days of yore,
In days of Robin Hood,
A merry band of outlaws
Rambled throughout Sherwood forest
(Home of the Major Oak,
North of Windsor Castle,
And South of Hadrian’s Wall).

They dressed in Lincoln green,
And whistled...

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A bird’s eye view 
conversation overheard in a park 
somewhere near you


Hey, Ori ... what’s up?

Nothing much, Marque.
Just flying low, bro.

Big Ollie, the Ruby Cleaners rooftop dove,
shared some bad popcorn news.

Oh, yeah. What’s the latest...

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Everyone remembers Jack 
He had those magic beans
Again, they just told part of it
And it's nothing like it seems

The giant wasn't really a bad guy
But jack was truly a thief
He even worked for Robin Hood
Contrary...

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a gentleman from a grand, but time-worn oil-painting,
unbelievably handsome in his forties,
immaculately dressed in a formal grey suit,
from the backdrop of a luscious tea-garden
on a mountaineous plush valley,
looked at me with an intriguing smile.....
in my...

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Sherwood Forest's were you'll see
Men are being so merry
With their leader Robin Hood
Always trying to do good
One day he made a decision
He needed a nice vacation
So he did a little packing
His excitement was not lacking
Soon...

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As the Sheriff of Nottingham’s prisoner
Maid Marian had been locked in a tower
Robin and his loyal band of merry men
Were determined to quash the sheriff’s power

In Sherwood Forest Friar Tuck made a plan
Robin’s crew were...

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    Purely Fictional Poem
    Robin Hood, 2020

Out of Sherwood Forest, 
here me come!
To run for President, 
I am the one.
A brazen thief, to sweep 
your 401k's clean!
And overburden worker 
birds with high taxes,...

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("Howling Rock" - 2016, Castle Rocks, Idaho)

Crying Wolf

My phone is set to the tone of a trumpet horn
To signal incoming texts
And every time it sounds
I think of Robin Hood calling out for me.

I think he...

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‘Come bring my bow of English yew and raise me from this bed
And let me look upon the wood where once I lay my head’
With fading sight and wearied limb through window rose he gazed
With...

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DEATH IN SHERWOOD FOREST

Thank you for agreeing to this final interview,
Before you shuffle off this mortal coil.
You’ve lived for many centuries
And soon you’ll be returning to the soil.

Ah well, I’ve had a good life.
I can’t...

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Outlaw Robin Hood, and his band of men 
Hidden in Sherwood Forest, they had a large den 
His deeds were known all over the county 
On his head there was a large bounty 
They were...

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If I could I would return to a time of knights and kings
Of castles, dungeons, wizards and mystical magical things
I'd see Little John, Will Scarlett, the merry men and Friar Tuck
I'd stay away from the...

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A romantic young man from Sherwood 
Bought a ring for his girl and felt good
He left it on the bus
Air was blue with his cuss
Chased after it as fast as he could.

A chocolate lover from...

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In 1917 the British and Commonwealth forces attacked
In the Ypres Salient in the corner of Belgium they hacked
Through the Third Battle of Ypres that had been raging away
With the battlefield turning to endless mud that...

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The date’s been set and many will attend
Just the penguin will be wearing his tux
A “come as you are” I did extend 
So expect to see antlers on the bucks

In the heart of Sherwood Forest...

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