Today
How was it, have you got a slot
You ordered Lucozade, prawn toasts
And Garibaldi crisps, I thought
Your favourites, have you got those?
It was so hot today, I sat
Behind closed curtains, overwhelmed
With RVW full set
I passed the fens you know so well
I played the Norfolk Rhapsody
I watched the recent film of Cromer
And through that haunting
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Categories:
norfolk, deep, for her, loss,
Form: Rhyme
A Sailor In Norfolk
A sailor aboard ship in Norfolk
was always quick with a ludicrous joke
Though his humor was lame
he quit the ship to seek fame
Now he's the laughingstock of Roanoke
2/5/22
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Categories:
norfolk, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Nor Folk
The ewes are gathering at salt licks
The ovens are hot for baking bricks
My mum is humming,
"Christmas is coming" *
My dad, it seems, is getting his kicks
*Winter is frigid in Norfolk, which may
account for 19th-century women
naming their sons, "Christmas"!
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Categories:
norfolk, christmas,
Form: Limerick
Norfolk
I love to march along the Icknield way:
Bretton Heath, Brickklin Covert and Caistor;
Fring Cross, Sedgeford and Swaffham still hold sway.
The sea sings with Terns and Oystercatcher
As we descend to the cold distant shore.
The air is perfumed with sea lavender
And Norfolk’s rich and abundant secret store:
Shrubby sea-blite, sea aster and rock rose.
Rome, come and unleash my
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Categories:
norfolk, history,
Form: Sonnet
My Norfolk.
This is Norfolk
Feet stamp the sidewalk
Flap flap flapping
Off to somewhere, anywhere
A hot summer day in the city
With nothing and everything to do
Streets cars people buzz, a sturdy hive
All I hear is the wind across my water bottle
Humming a melody of the distant seas
Of sailors’ tales new and old
Far from this life on the brink of
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Categories:
norfolk, introspection, life, urbanlonging, water,
Form: I do not know?
(norfolk ) Virginia Is For Lovers???????????
I'm from Norfolk Virginny
where every bodies stingy
even king pins cut nuts and pinch pennies
where stick up kids are found
patrolling their grounds
when the sun drops the pull out and start patting you down
like give me your money now
don't make a sound
when this barrel burst it's known to send souls to the cloud
and rule number one is
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Categories:
norfolk, black african american, song-urban,
Form: Rhyme
On a Bus From Norfolk
On a bus leaving Norfolk late Friday night, I was in the last seat in the back
A young and pretty woman boarded with hair so long and black
She was a sailor's dream sitting across from me and slowly falling asleep
I was gazing out the window and dozing off myself and the snow was getting
deep
We
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Categories:
norfolk, happiness, life, body, me,
Form: Dramatic Verse