Manchester ::new audio::
...Towers and showers
You fall then you rise
Making love to the clouds
It's mundane you despise
Let's cut to the chase
Keep our words short today
I'm proud of this city
Perhaps 'nice one' you'...
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Categories:
mancunian, city, faith, family, fashion,
Form: Rhyme
Mean Streets
...Newspaper blows along rain-washed streets,
dying echoes of hash tags and tweets
promising hook-ups, flash mobs and meets,
long gone to their bed-sits and urban retreats.
Puddles painted with ne...
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Categories:
mancunian, city,
Form: Rhyme
The Lost Years
...The Lost Years
EDIE
Edie looks well for her age,
Hard to believe she’s almost 94.
A widow wife these past 72 years,
Lost husband Bill, in the 2nd World war.
Bill was presumed killed in ac...
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Categories:
mancunian, absence, age, loss, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
Limerick Crochetes Portrait of a Dead Brit Nazi Lord of the Lollypoppians
...Limerick crochetés: Portrait of a Dead Brit Nazi, Lord of the Lollypoppians
Part One
Once an uppity man from Poland
Wed a stumpy wench from High Golan
Result: mangy mongre...
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Categories:
mancunian, satire,
Form: Limerick