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Short Essex Poems

Short Essex Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Essex by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Essex by length and keyword.


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Essex girl Sandie Shaw
bare-footed held the floor
Famed for a Puppet-on-a-string
her win made all England sing...

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Categories: essex, song,
Form: Clerihew



Pint Will Raise
About my deceased friend Terry.
Will have service for him Thursday
with a wake at Gun Tavern in
Basildon, Essex, England

Pint Will Raise

For Terry a pint will raise
And offer him much praise
Distinguished gentleman has been
Heaven's gates are open again
Where Terry now rests and stays....

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Categories: essex, appreciation,
Form: Limerick
In Search of My Own
I traveled from Essex
  to the kingdom of Wales
  in search of a family tree

And passing a cobbler
  I then was reminded
  what these shoes really mean to me

I’ve walked and I’ve walked
  and I’ve searched and I’ve searched,
  for a name more than mine on loan

And through leather worn thin
   these sparse clothes that I’m in
   will walk to China in search of my own

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)...

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Categories: essex, analogy,
Form: Rhyme