Pennines Poems - Poems about Pennines

A Tapestry

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A tear in his heart, zigzagging on his own two feet, he combed through his emotions, back and forth, up and down, he was apprehensive but hopeful. A silver lining, A thread to keep him bound. Pray....

BOEING BOMBER, BARBARA JANE

...The local folk now hear a plane,
quite low and circling round.
In thickening fog and driving rain,
can it not see the ground? 
It surely has wandered off course.
For where was this plane bound? ...

Pennine Chain

...Pennine Chain
                  by Bob Moore © 2021

I’ve camped in the hills of the Pennine Chain
in the cold, and the snow, and the pouring rain
and if I was young I would do it again
but the...

Saddleworth Moor

...Crossing the Pennines, rocky spine
Of the country running North South,
Following the motorway west 
From the Humber Estuary Mouth 
It always felt cloud bound whatever
The weather or the time of ...

Waiting For Acceptance

...Now Buxton is the place to stay when hiking in “the Dales”,
But your schedule’s shot to pieces if you’re troubled by strong gales,
On a campsite in the Pennines the wind was blowing bitterly
I con...

Dream By a Mountain

...I must dream by a mountain
and knell by the bells
cliche after cliche
is my calling
From  Gibraltar to the Pennines
I see the lemmings meet their master
But the fireside grows dim
the crows co...

The River Lune

...I breathe as softly as a little bird
Like the robin did in Arnside Wood
Quick yet calm, who for some food would dare.


The view from Arnside Knot is  broad and fair
The atmosphere is  pure, we...

Pennine Ramble

...Pennine Ramble
                                     by Bob Moore © 2019

I have rambled through the Pennines, on a lovely summer’s day
to Kinder Scout and Bleaklow , and Scafell not far away
We’...

Natural Legacy

...Jimmy misses the hikes with his dad
Going to the Pennines, Lake District and Wales
Exploring old quarries and mines
Finding wartime plane wrecks
Marvelling at man built reservoirs and dams
Riski...

Oh England

...by Bob Moore © 2019
                                   >>>>
Oh England bloody England, a land 0f Poms and rain
Oh I wish that I could be, back in my England once again
To see my friends and...

Where I Was Born

...Where I was Born
        by Bob Moore (c) 2017 
                              
 I am a product of where I was born 
 long ago on a cold winter’s morn
 my father and mother are part of me, 
 and...

A Life Well Lived

...A Life Well Lived
     by Robert J (Bob) Moore  (©2015)
The old man sat at the window, staring into space
people could only wonder, at the smile upon his face
but they had not been where he had b...

Your Wishing Well of Hope

...Its been three years since we've met 
two years since we started sharing a bed 
and one year since we haven't been
fighting on what could have been. 
wishing you'd give up her hand 
hoping you'd see ...

Going Home In Gateshead 1952

...GOING  HOME  IN  GATESHEAD  1952


Boy and mother walking home.
Sounds  muffled,  closed  intimate silence.  It was snowing.

Street  lamps’  light of warm orange   blazed a trail 
Of modern l...

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