Long Yeoman Poems

MR. FRITZ AND BLACK SHEEP  :

Arrival at the clinic,
We're here to fix things.
Where's the the dentist?
This dude tooth's aching,
Thus Black Sheep;
He's not fit for some days.
He returned from London last two weeks.
It's pain's such...

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On the deaths of Major John Cairns Bartholomew, of Wadworthshire, and a much loved Devizes tree...

Beneath a grey and monumental sky 
In wild confetti clouds that dance in air
The blossom falls; all trees and men...

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I'm just writing my story
Leaving out all the glory
I never tore them; yet the pages and spine are all but broken
Its letters are scattered, yet still the words form a concise omen
Would you read it...

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Curse of the twenty two

Ole Con he was a Yeoman at bloody El Alamein,
And he lifted out the mines where lead fell like bloody rain,
Driven sort of crazy, with death buzzing all around,
And the butcher...

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Little I ask, my wants are few,
I only wish a roof and home -
a simple one this man will do
   that I may call my own.
To within its walls live and age
with a...

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An amateur archer, Antoine,
Bodaciously bragged beastly brawn.
Crushed counterparts,
Dispatched deadly darts,
Electrified everyone!

Fly fisherman Freddy flung far.
Gadzooks! Great gobbling gar!
He hooked half-heartedly,
Inverted inartfully,
Jettisoned jumbled jig jar!

Kenneth keeps kitchen knives keen
Love’s labors leave lanky, lean
Mills metal mightily
Nibbles Nightly
Overweight...

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Science fiction writers formulate countless stories of trips to the stars.
Telling us about adventures to planets like Venus and Mars.
All their tales take us into a future time and place.
In each of them, courageous pioneers...

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What gets possibly gained from poetic encounters?
A friendship sets sail though mast’s shadows can’t merge
more than sheets in the wind that two sailors might set in defiance
of oceans, whose trembling waves surf on their opposite...

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Down on the pier, the midmorning bright,
Thronged wives, husbands, lovers,
And sons, friends, young daughters,
All eyes perusing the grand and gray ship
In long-simmered hope of glimpsing one face,
One much-beloved grin, among antsy sailors
Arrayed in white jumpers...

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SUNLESS    IN   NORTH   SHIELDS 


It’s painful when the sea wind 
Drives  rain into the eyes
At the end of Yeoman Street, 
Where I waited so long for that...

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...for my yeoman brothers and sisters


Beneath the ancient ewe, my limbs grow 
strong. Ever watchful of the bayn-scurry 
crow.These fields I wander know my 
footfall well, for thee- I sharpen arrow and 
wax my bow....

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I mounted to a mount, 
By viewing the astonishing scenery, 
I mounted on a slippery hill, 
Hearing voices that is a peril.... 
I saw an aged yeoman working 
On his filed, 
Albeit his hard effort
lead...

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A whisper gently in the night 
One that sweetly lingers into daylight 

And into days, weeks, months, and years 
Quietly walking in faith and extirpating all fears 

Silently working like a Yeoman 
Standing on my...

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Footprints on a sandy beach,
will be washed away by morning.
There's a storm out on the open sea,
A thunderclap - a warning!
A lonely ship is tossed about,
and struggles in the hue,
its motley crew begins to shout
at...

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Jesus came as a beloved Son,
Walked on earth as a mortal man,
Just like me, a yeoman.

Jesus lived as the Father said.
Father! Son! Working as one!
Where love alone's won.

Jesus died as a beloved Son,
Though odious to...

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Faces seen

Sometimes in a different light,
I see another face not very nice,
Who really isn’t really surely me,
 A nasty Irishman, hate filled I see,
Who would free our Northern Ireland,

Other remembered face does dwell,
The face so...

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