Clerihew Bunting
...Northumberland poet Basil Bunting
had the knack to make words sing
His bio colour-filed 'Brigflatts'
always gloss never matt...
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Categories:
northumberland, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Grace Darling
...Grace Darling
Tempest spits upon the gunnels
But Grace Darling manhandles the paddles,
To rescue the folks of the Forfarshire crash,
Stranded on Farne Islands off Northumberland coast.
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Categories:
northumberland, hero, sea, storm, weather,
Form: Verse
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
...The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A we...
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Categories:
northumberland, education, environment, history, technology,
Form: Prose Poetry
Stephen Miller
...Stephen has won gold at three sequential Paralympics,
In his event, the club, which you throw with everything,
In Atlanta 1996, in Sydney 2000, then in Athens picks,
And then in 2008 in Beijing ...
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Categories:
northumberland, body, health, motivation, sports,
Form: Quatrain
It Is Now Autumn
...It is Now Autumn
It is now autumn
The leaves are changing slowly
The air is cooling
It is now autumn
Time for life to be calmer
Summer all over
It is now autumn
Time to go to sch...
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Categories:
northumberland, environment, sea, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Grandmother
...A grandmother often plays one of the most important roles in a child's life.
My grandma was born way out in the Northumberland Strait.
Born and raised in a place called Pictou Island; just part of ...
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Categories:
northumberland, bereavement, death, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Waterloo's Aftermath
...How could such a man with diminutive stance,
be the leader of all the armies of France?
A little dictator ruling with a strong arm,
he will be exiled to where he can do no harm.
This leader is consid...
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Categories:
northumberland, adventure, fantasy, history,
Form: Rhyme
Alnwick Gardens Northumberland Uk
...Feeling the serenity that knows all its powers
Unwinding the mazes not knowing what devours
To sprinkle the liquid as each we do walk
Inside is the garden where we meet and talk
Silence is golden...
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Categories:
northumberland, nature, garden,
Form: I do not know?