Short Manchester Poems

Rain pouring on pubs
Grey cotton weaving up high
Sprinkling on churches...

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My son is a Buccaneer (Orlando Pirates)
I'm a proud Khozi (Kaizer Chiefs)
We’re eternal enemies divided,
But we meet at Manchester United...

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From Manchester came a bloke
who thought himself quite bespoke.
	His risqué pick up lines
	were made in monorhymes.
He proved to be all mirrors, no smoke....

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Most Manchester parents are free of dread,
Their wee ones are safe asleep, in bed,
But some now wait there, all alone ...
For children who will not come home....

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A person's story/but unique only to them/are we aliens?

from *ing Upside Down In a Blazing Avro Manchester Bomber – Poems from My Life and More 

Nick Armbrister...

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Hence I like you dear/do you like my older bro?/I am an ice cream



F*cking Upside Down In a Blazing Avro Manchester Bomber – Poems from My Life and More 

Nick Armbrister...

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She said she’d only cheated once
I told her I felt spited
I asked who it was with
And she said Manchester United


9 November 2022
Contest: Butesize 55
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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as rain upon the road to hell
the burning coals of murderers
fall in a thousand pieces fall

have mercy on us all for we
are mourning for the meadow flowers
rise little butterflies rise

© Gail Foster 23rd May 2017...

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FROSTY   DAY  IN   THE   CITY

Wetless day,  birdless trees,
Witless denizens of metropolis
Long await the bus into
The delights of Manchester.

Townless  bus waiters  -
Their earphones are essential
For Deaf  Man’s Buff  -
Tuneless music....

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Senseless acts of violence 
Sadly, took away innocent lives 
Nothing but mass confusion 
Filled with corruption and strife 
Loved ones are grieving in sorrow 
Tears are falling down endlessly 
To the people of Manchester, England 
Who witnessed a major calamity...

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Seems a Manchester man dropped trow
to test out a sofa, and how!
The fabric is swell;
it resisted poo well.
Good news too, it’s half price right now!

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Reported by employees at the Sofa Club in Manchester’s Arndale Centre. The disposition of the couch is poetic license…...

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The roads are blocked from here to there,
drivers are gridlocked with despair,
traffic pollution’s everywhere,
ask the coroner, ask the mayor,
fellow commuters, could sometimes share,
use yellow buses, if fares are fair,
one thing’s for certain, please be aware,
Greater Manchester needs clean air.
...

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If your even vaguely religious and
 think God is the creator.
 Kneel, clasp your hands together and pray
 because I need the answer,
 why the hell is there Cancer?
 It has no regard for age,colour or creed.
 What is the thinking behind this indiscriminate disease?
 If you get a response please tell me please....

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"This is the best time of the day,"
The taxi man said,
"Before those buggers go to work.
Half an hour's time
You couldn't drive down here."
"I wouldn't want to."
I replied, looking up at the clear air,
Signatured with vapour trails,

And wishing Manchester
Were Singapore or Cape Town.

Kim Helen James
January 1997...

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Bells
now toll
in sympathy
Innocent victims died
and many people were wounded
on the streets of London and Manchester.
Please can you remember them all

in your
prayers

*prayers counted as 1 syllable not 2 as per how many syllables

New Form The Bell Contest
Sponsored by John Anderson

06-04-17...

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puckered
i like your shapely legs
your thighs are awesome
so muscular

your pek pek shorts hug you
as i want to do
me naked

my body reacting to you
i want to be there
between your thighs

to explore you baby
i love you and your legs

from  F*cking Upside Down In a Blazing Avro Manchester Bomber – Poems from My Life and More 

Nick Armbrister...

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bits of bone
bones lying there together/bleached by the salt water/all flesh has gone south/fish grew fat on seven aircrew/discarded pieces of skeleton/don’t you know they made up aircrew/who flew their manchester bomber/far into germany bombing them in war

F*cking Upside Down In a Blazing Avro Manchester Bomber – Poems from My Life and More 

Nick Armbrister...

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They came from near and far with smiling faces
and a skip in their step with excitement growing inside.

Daughters and sisters waving parents goodbye, their big night
a chance to be alone with Ariana Grande

I weep at what was to follow
smoke, heat and molten metal,
engulfed them where they stood.

Some shall never grow old
and we must never forget
one night in Manchester....

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deluge
hail thee the big mighty river/slow moving water mass/venture across a landscape/behold your majestic size/wondrous natural creation/power beyond man/women understand you/share the cycle/always alive in motion/finally reaching the sea/water cycle circle

from my new book...

F*cking Upside Down In a Blazing Avro Manchester Bomber – Poems from My Life and More 

Nick Armbrister...

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He is Anderson Dan,
A Man U Fanatical fan;
Only five minutes ago,
To Hell did go ...
Indeed, nearly mad ran,
Man U supposing in some frying pan,
Having Chelsea’s thrust lifted a ban;
In a match Chelsea had been A Titan,
Easily to Man U telling “I can”
And once again “That Chelsea can”.

Bamboozled Anderson Dan,
Had to forget his being a Man:
“Oh!” Chelsea is sure to our skin tan”!...

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Manchester

Man United, Man City
A great Mancs debate,
For the love of the game ?
Or inspiring hate?
Stone Roses, Oasis
The Mondays, The Fall,
A town full of talent 
Which inspires us all.
A town full of pride
With a past full of pain,
We cry in the sun
And laugh in the rain.
A diverse, cultural city 
Where you’re never alone,
I’m talking ‘bout Manchester
The place I call home??...

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Manchester she is alive
Alive with strength new
New skyscrapers replace old Victorian charm
Charm of Manchester with a burning heart
Heart's and mind's of all and each
Each day is special
Special to all that survived the bomb terror
Terror of a people and an embitterment
Embitterment that has long gone, rejoice
Rejoice Manchester, a proud city of Uniqueness

Uniqueness and Karma
Karma and love...

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Who will shirk me of this load 
The garment so heavy I'm weak
Heaven in cry, world in bleak
Like wet rag, cloth I wear
The sorrow, the pains I bear
Heavy it is to carry, these tears
In fear I saw them cold 
Cold, cold, in tons and folds
Glum the faces of elderlies
In cold, in tears, it's over
Subdued is me, Manchester 
But strong these kids hola 
To terror face they sang
In smiles, in cries, in smiles
Above cowardly acts we are
Thank you kids, thank you, Ariana...

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king james with a lantern on a hill tells 
of loose ribbons in ornate fancy hats 
and all prayers turn common when
 manchester united plays chelsea.

 now gods holy plasma screens burn 
brightly on old tarnished brick walls, 
uplifted by cherubim and cigar smoke. 

 while all the dart boards across the bar
 are decorated in their finest greens and
 reds like scottish noblemen.

everthing is as it should be, 
after all it is sunday and 
 god is an englishmen right?...

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There you are before me in Manchester
My mum was never mad at me like this
My mum was never angry at me like this
My mum was never crying at me like this
My mum was never disillusioned at me like this
My mum was never screamed at me like this
My mum was never glared at me like this
My mum was never exiled at me like this
My mum was never hatred at me like this
My mum was never insane at me like this
My mum was never bitter at me like this
Because my mum is fecking dead...

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