Lowry Poems - Poems about Lowry

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Footles based on LS Lowry and his paintings. Surreal I feel Lone Man Own Man Match fit Matchsticks Street scene Smoke seen From mill Street fill School group Pea soup The Pond Beyond Seascape Flat shape A Fight Plain sight House Moor Strange door Cranes ships No trips Bedroom In gloom Sail boat Mum gloat Seaside Spy tide Smog drapes Seals fates Bandstand Day grand Irk Place Pale face Big group With stoop Portrait Can paint Red Eyes Chastise Blitzed Site Dark Sight Wall lay Long day Landmark Bit stark Choo Choo Comes through Hats, ghouls Make rules In streets Home beats On knee No glee Brian Strand...

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Inspired by the painting by LS Lowry Man Lying on a Wall. The poem makes the most sense when viewed with the painting. I wasn't believed When I told of what I saw Quite simply A man lying on a wall Suited, booted and prepared for a rainy day But the day wasn't rainy The wall was dry And perfectly positioned For contemplation He...

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Lawrence Tephen Lowry famed for pictureque naivety 'Stick people' were his usp of folk like us - both u&me...

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land of lost shadows and unweathered skies five urban colours through unflinching eyes tall distant chimneys and schoolyards at play smoke drifting sideways in stillness each day sketches on packets of stained cigarettes strange brooding faces and marionettes people bent walking with heads looking down - if lowry was living he'd have painted my town....

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( Coming home from the mill. ) Air full of smog from dirty factory chimney people walking around square quite nimbly, grey clouds above small terraces workers abodes typical northern town with narrow cobbled roads, Local shop owners struggle to make both ends meet children with no socks or shoes on their feet, family men hope for a day's work...

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