Short Newcastle Poems

I love this brown ale so much
In a glass so clear
Newcastle, you are the one...

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There once was an old man from Seattle
Who had it in his thoughts to skedaddle
But booking trips his mind they would rattle
He took plane
Landed in Spain
When he wanted to go to Newcastle....

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Your album cover
Anything for a Laugh
seems candlelight lit
arched churchways
and smoke from village Chimneys
sepia daybreak
angel clouds jettisoning
with yellow filter

You died in Newcastle
broken by the rain, 
only one album
and a few credits
cherished by a few...

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Bonarda?Twenty eight ripples 
counted , flow? actually, 
rain drops spare spaces.
?Newcastle darkened by windows,
shut,? a longing for short rope.
?Growing window boxes fell?, 
by taxis and the lost echoes?
Part time clocks between dead towers?Tick, 
through the eroded scraggy day?
Arrows flew blistered stray crows...

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SHADOW    TOWN


A shadow town with only a past
Abandon hope all  ye  who cross
The black iron bridge over the smell of the Tyne
Tyres hiss on the wet road as they pass
And leave me here in the dark
Murky rain dirty roads 
November in  Gateshead   
In the shadow of gloriously dirty Newcastle

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Note

Anyone who had the misfortune to live in Gateshead  in 
the 1970s  will understand the feelings in this verse....

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