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River Tyne Poems - Poems about River Tyne


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




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