Long Wantage Poems
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Passing ByI was travelling. I still am, but
once upon a time I was on my way through
a particular place. It was north of Wantage
that I stopped and stepped out
of my car to...
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Categories:
wantage, creation, earth, god, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Alfred the GreatAlfred the Great (born Wantage, 849)
Market place; he stands in isolation.
Known for culinary conflagration,
The object of two vandalous attacks –
How scandalous to steal his battle axe !
He burned the cakes and chased the Danes
But what...
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Categories:
wantage, history,
Form:
Verse
Ridgeway RamblesAvebury a Wiltshire village low
To windswept beacon of Ivinghoe.
Eighty-five miles,vale and hill
Wayfare freedoms,exhilarate and thrill.
Striding downs in grassy scrub
Midst trees and clumps of shrub;
Shaded lanes,gates and stiles,
Wayside pubs to rest awhile.
Overton to Wantage plain
Goring and...
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Categories:
wantage, places,
Form:
Ballad