Introduction
...Intrduction -Byron’s Sonnet
If I can say the lines that make her mine,
and stay from speaking trite words she would hate,
but rather play her praise of golden weight,
then homage I would make g...
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Categories:
river tyne, desire,
Form: Sonnet
Going Back
...GOING BACK
It was not an endearing place, a storybook place
With little cottages and
Loaded fruit trees from which apples could be casually filched,
Nor were there sparkling streams ...
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Categories:
river tyne, introspectionsong, dark, dark, places,
Form: Narrative
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
...NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, ENGLAND
Half-Scot, half-English and ill at ease with the past,
Newcastle is sooty black from its coaly drama,
And the breathless town was always in a hurry to gro...
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Categories:
river tyne, urban
Form: Free verse
Submarine
...SUBMARINE
It was Navy Day on the River Tyne*
I can remember I was about nine.
Four big grey warships to be seen
And a small black submarine.
The big ships were truly splendid
With flags and...
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Categories:
river tyne, seariver,
Form: Narrative
Gateshead 1954
...GATESHEAD 1954
My home’s between vinegar factory
And a small-time scrap metal dealer
This town is an ugly and grimy
Industrial place - and it doesn’t get any realer
Like rich woman n...
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Categories:
river tyne, river,
Form: Quatrain