Get Your Premium Membership

Midlands Poems - Poems about Midlands

Premium Member A Charmed Life part 2
...After we turned from Africa we first lived in Cornwell and I got a job learning to be a riding instructor with Heather Hunt she was a tough lady to work for but her training was excellent I went on t......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, fun, youth,
Form: Bio
Up the Villa
...In the heart of the city, where legends embark. Stands the famous old stadium, they call Villa Park. A club full of honours, with a history so rich. I'm proud when I see Aston Villa on the pitch. ......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, celebration, devotion, emotions, football,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member CHALLENGING DRIVE
... And so we traveled very, very high, Our destination seemingly to reach The gathering mist and Dreary grey sky. The path rather track that we took, Could have been misunderstood, For a sta......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Country Communion
...Honesty is our soul Our work is coking coal Midst coarse iron foundries And steel mill boundaries We live, love, and labor Sing, dance, and play tabor...! Though coal dust pollution, Finds l......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, life, people,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Kente
...Colored checkered patterns Dashing vibrant colors Hand woven cloth strips Dazzling geometric shapes. Characterized weft designs Vivid eye appealing texture Ghana’s national cloth Royals favo......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, africa, art, beauty, clothes,
Form: Free verse



Suzanne
...We sleep in the same bed but we were apart was it the age difference or that you lived in Beckenham you told me of your addictions tobacco and wine You seemingly had no friends just access t......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let There Be Limericks: Two For Halloween 2022
...Dinner Date or Date for Dinner? When the harvest moon is full and bright, And the wolf bane blooms on an autumn night, If the guy whose kiss used to make you swoon Starts to lick his lips ......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, halloween,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Audrey Bowden
...A Lincolnshire lass was she in youth and bloom revealing, and upon us all God smiled when unto this world a child was born and bred in Healing Red flower of the Midlands - ......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, thanksgiving day, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member This Is Who I Am
...This Is Who I Am My first name is Belle, that’s a sobriquet * My feelings are being anon is best. Empathetic, helpful, Inquisitive Keen on humour, poetry and mu......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, character, me,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Autumn Light In Derbyshire
...Dark skies lurked to press upon 'em To Autumn they succumbed Trying to change was superfluous By twilight, the hills were overcome Fingertips of trees reached upward Hoping to prick the clouds......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, autumn, england, fantasy, introspection,
Form: Ballad
Mabely Rides To Town To Find a Man
...Near the shire long about the twisting bend Mabely holds her skinny frame inside, in tight On higher ground above the United Kingdom The mare moves slower, almost to a stop To a whisper in the d......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, beauty, death, horse, love,
Form: Free verse
Uncle Harry Mothilal
...last night, on the phone, albeit in South Africa uncle Harry - now 82 - repeated what my dad said (My dad, Harry's older brother, late since 2005) Recalled for us the days on the farm Before the ......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, africa, childhood, family, violence,
Form: I do not know?
Of Sleep's Defeat
...It came in the night, a crescent smile Slit across the midlands of its face, The foe of a thousand nights to once again battle A mind unsettled and heaving, drifting Towards the edges of sleep......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, angst, anxiety, crazy, depression,
Form: Free verse
Suffolk Day
...Suffolk day Wednesday 21st of June 2017 By Stanley Russell Harris The new mad author & A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet There is going to be a Suffolk Day, I heard the news I did today! ......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, celebration, encouraging, fun, happiness,
Form: I do not know?
Phil Pratt
...Phil is a Welshman from Cardiff, basketball, Who plays for the club the Sheffield Steelers, On the 2nd February 1994 he was born tall, And wears vest 11 for TeamGB, has feelers. His classificat......

Continue reading...
Categories: midlands, basketball, sports, strength,
Form: Quatrain

Related Poems


Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry