Australia is calling'
...Are you listening out in Wood-wood' in Balranald do you hear in the Hunter and
Newcastle all round Maitland ix it clear?
From Jamestown, in Burra-Burra and from
Port Augusta too will they stand? ...
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Categories:
newcastle, allegory, courage, freedom,
Form: Free verse
You shattered my dream
...2025.4.20
I was so excited. I was going on a trip,
All the way to New South Wales, Sydney.
Where I last visited in 2006.
This time, I wanted to climb,
On the Australia icon "Sydney Harbour bri...
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Categories:
newcastle, dream, easter, for him,
Form: Free verse
Brian Short
...Your album cover
Anything for a Laugh
seems candlelight lit
arched churchways
and smoke from village Chimneys
sepia daybreak
angel clouds jettisoning
with yellow filter
You died in Newcastl...
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Categories:
newcastle, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Polly Astley
...Polly Astley loved to have visitors, for she loved piquant, plum people;
Like counting stars when we were young, in milky moonlight, peaceful.
Her days were spent teaching children, with ...
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Categories:
newcastle, fantasy, friendship, home, imagery,
Form: Couplet
The beginning to the end
...My start in life was not round here,
Newcastle was my home,
But now I've spent 20yrs in washington where I roam,
Now I wonder what is left,
A hopeless future at its best,
A big part missing...
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Categories:
newcastle, bereavement, cancer, death,
Form: Rhyme
Black and White
...There are lots of things that are black and white,
Like zebras and Newcastle United, they are a good team and get their fans excited.
Penguins are mostly black and white, but some have coloured p...
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Categories:
newcastle, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, color,
Form: Rhyme
The Sea Gull
...The Sea Gull
The one-legged seagull king that lived on the last reef
before the ocean began had lived long, longer than gulls normally do
He came from a sturdy breed that for generations had liv...
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Categories:
newcastle, abuse, car, cat,
Form: Free verse
Chelsea Fc Takes Abramovich's Fall
...Chelsea FC Takes Abramovich's Fall
Europe is responsible for the war,
not CFC...who is taking the fall.
US played the devil's advocate de facto,
Putin turn deaf hears, no word from NATO.
...
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Categories:
newcastle, 1st grade, football, political,
Form: Rhyme
A Study In Bronze
...I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it
On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the
dingo’s call? It couldn’t be as all
Round me were the sounds of London go...
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Categories:
newcastle, endurance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Bonarda
...Bonarda?Twenty eight ripples
counted , flow? actually,
rain drops spare spaces.
?Newcastle darkened by windows,
shut,? a longing for short rope.
?Growing window boxes fell?,
by taxis and the...
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Categories:
newcastle, dark,
Form: Imagism
A Day In a League Fight
...With the wasp women on her heels
Thackray needed to cut a deal
In order to keep enjoying sorority gourmet prepaid meals
Taking a seat to watch Jay
She had a lot to say
This is not a late ni...
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Categories:
newcastle, beautiful, body, london, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Layered Cake Pt 2
...Layered Cake pt 2
Further afield I met a gangster in Liverpool who was alrite
He liked a right tear up and had a job to appear legit
But his real work was in various things like drugs, guns and ...
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Categories:
newcastle, conflict, life, teenage,
Form: Verse
Us Residency Yet Delayed Year 9, But Jesus Is Real To Me
...I wanted to write & testify, one-time suicidal Dr. Anil Deo, is reborn during second half-century on earth! Yes, Jesus is real to me, to revive hope and the desire to live or write, or preach ... whe...
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Categories:
newcastle, child, education, endurance, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
Brexit, Brexit, Mon Amour
...Shall I compare thee unto a crate of beer,
or, if not that, then unto washing powder?
Today I shun all things that are austere;
soft tones must yield to songs that are far louder.
May's shandy wa...
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Categories:
newcastle, allusion, england, political,
Form: Sonnet
Unquotable Quotes: Xlix - Tongue Teasers
...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: Tongue-Teasers - XLIX
« Third Degree » is when you add « Insult to injury ».
If you take everything everybody says with a « pinch of salt », we’ll soon be able to drink oc...
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Categories:
newcastle, humor, irony, race, word
Form: Epigram
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