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Marston Poems - Poems about Marston


Sonnet 22 Battle of Marston Moor Ii
...I let a boy, a Roundhead* boy, to live... I knocked him down, and said, 'stay down my boy! You're fourteen, and your mother waits to give You letters** - HEY THEN! THAT is not a TOY!' (For he'd ......

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Categories: marston, courage, death, devotion, irony,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnet 13 the Battle of Marston Moor
...Five Thousand Men! Blood flowing in the creek, The deadly sweep and ‘whisst!’ of footman’s pike, The cavalry broke through where lines were weak! The smell of grass and loam, a caltrop’s* spike ......

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Categories: marston, death, death of a
Form: Sonnet



Luekemia
...Luekemia luekemia, the atomic bloody curse, Menzies the magnificent allowed 12 atom bombs to burst, The order of the garter for the boofhead Aussie clown, Became a sir or mr on the tory......

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Categories: marston, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Lest We Forget the Bad Decisions
...Sponsor Nancy Jones Contest Name Things that suck Lest we forget the Bad decisions … (Myxo the rabbit steal the Bagmans Bunny), first use of a deadly weapon ( Cane toads 4 cane beetles,)( 12 at......

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Categories: marston, adventure
Form: Rhyme

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