Shires Poems - Poems about Shires

...WORDPLAY Scores of work to read and think deeply Stores of enthusiasm can reduce steeply Snores are heard and can attract curses Snorts from a few less tolerant nurses Sports offer very differ......

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...Imagine a world that Could have been A little more rural Of forest and green Steam is the power Coal is still king And they rely a lot On the clockwrk spring. A much slower world As Shir......

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..." Beacon of Love, shine in the night of waning moon, whither thy lamp beams goest , the world will go, O light up the lamps of hope and love" Eden Verse Thou foster child of sea and night ! F......

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...The thing he calls heart Man’s for long lost beyond trace For lifelong to part. What heaves in his hollow case Keeps him alive, runs dead cart. -------------------- Gulzaar | 02.04.2023 | ......

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...About the end of times when Carts were hauled by Shires, Coal was king and homes Were heated by open fires, A seemingly huge dark figure From my early childhood days As he drove his horse and c......

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...My mam used to clean at Billy Bulson’s farm, A magical place of mystery and charm, With geese that cackled and hissed and every day. Without my mam I’d have run away As they charged with flapping......

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...He was the village blacksmith To us children he was known As our adopted Uncle Wilf They’d no children of their own. Six days a week he worked, His hours long and physically hard. Our cottage b......

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...they dug a path down Church Lane with walls that , to my child’s eye seemed to rear up sheer and cold as though reaching for the sky at the extremes of my memory not much else is really clear ......

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...Yorkshire, 1914 I patch mended her copper saucepan, Edged an axe, two cleavers and a knife. I did all the jobs that were required. By this comely young farmer’s wife. She served me a platter of ......

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...For far shires beyond the western red sun I’m leaving the Land of the Long White Cloud - to journey across the far horizon where cockatoos in bloodwoods sing aloud. Trading in my black si......

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...These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I have written t......

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...by Joseph Christopher Liguori and Robert James Liguori Shh. Can’t you hear her talking to me. Her voice is the whisper from a tree. Sweet arms are the branches that grab me tight, And lift m......

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...Radiance by Michael R. Burch for Dylan Thomas The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil— for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet; each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil, ......

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...Myth, after Dylan Thomas by Michael R. Burch Here the recalcitrant wind sighs with grievance and remorse over fields of wayward gorse and thistle-throttled lanes. And she is the myth of the......

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...(* to be read in the style of Heny V before the battle of Agincourt) To arms! To arms! Men of the Shires, rouse from your winter sleep the game's afoot, waste no more time abed, to Hardware sto......

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