The Hanging Tree
...Come, my love and meet me
Come, my love and meet me
Along the fields by The Hanging Tree
Come, my love and watch the navvies building the canal there,
Near The Hanging Tree
Come, my love and res...
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Categories:
navvies, allusion, murder, mystery,
Form: Ballad
A Hovel In the Woods
...I stumbled on a hovel in the woods
Dug in a foothill roofed with mossy shakes.
Inside, its furthest wall was made of stones
Piled high to make a chimney and a hearth.
Two stovepipes served as dra...
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Categories:
navvies, analogy, loneliness,
Form: Blank verse
Reg Everson
...Kitted out with a uniform, I felt the part,
But the deesire inside is always the art;
I was enlisted as a pilot under training,
And inoculated, vaccinated in yearning.
The medical exam asser...
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Categories:
navvies, courage, death, history, tribute,
Form: Heroic Couplet
The Manchester Ship Canal - Part Two
...Stilled again across the canals broadening
Girth;
Mesh cages of rock-filled Gabions
Reinforcing patches of exposed and arid earth,
Reflecting the glints that gleefully
Twist and dance in the h...
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Categories:
navvies, history, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Apology To Eliot
...Let us go to certain half-desserted restaurant
Where cheese is spread on the table like an elkmilksheet
Steaks are burnt, curries are bland, puddings are mulberry mist
Let us go to certain half-...
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Categories:
navvies, age, allegory, angst, crazy,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Cut
...A country yearns industry
from assiduous minds revolutionary,
cities conceived with mind set and skill
yet lay insipid in the body of Britannia
those in need of life’s blood,
akin to human organ...
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Categories:
navvies, inspirational, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
...Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The navvies were round knocking on doors
They had some tarmac left and they could get more
Yes we needed the drive and a path
But we weren’t going to be in, that was the first...
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Categories:
navvies, funny,
Form: Quatrain