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The Solent Poems - Poems about The Solent


Put a Light Out On Hunching Cliff

...Somewhere partially due east 

Of Hunching Cliff 

On the Jurassic coast

Where the Old Lighthouse

Used to stand it's ground 

Battered intermittently minutely 

Against the wave's and c...
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Categories: the solent, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Toy Soldier Knee March

...March forevermore my child

Press onwards admirably
foward

Should you to be allowed
and granted access

Piggyback if you can on the
wing's of solent angel buffered
kite

Whilst all the w...
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Categories: the solent, slam,
Form: Free verse



Ponder This Before You Can'T

...If memory be a wizened
rainbow string of cotton candy

With i best trying to win in a 
traveling fair a goldfish circling 
in a bag of freshly squeezed alcohol infused urine 

And like the fis...
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Categories: the solent, slam,
Form: Free verse

Shy

...Shy of condition

Shyness afflicted

Shy opaque canvas butterfly

Who only speaks when addressed

Oh shy , Oh shy
Opaque butterfly
Who only speaks when addressed

Converses only in chilli...
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Categories: the solent, slam,
Form: Free verse

Lest Flanders Was Alive Come 11 November

...Where once the mighty timid
Flanders soldier shook

Bathed in foriegn mud underfoot

All but one and two a man

Hard fought and pressed with bayonets clenched in hand abreast
expedient beatin...
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Categories: the solent, slam,
Form: Free verse



Thick

...Enter the quickening

Earth wind and fire sand

Pulsating purple pork pie presence

Varacus viscus veinns

Like bullets piercing brain  
baloon targets

Knocking them from scaffolding
blo...
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Categories: the solent, slam,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFlavor Pies 2

...Aloo pie Apple crisp pie gives me gimmie pie
Apple crumble  Australian meat pie 
Banana cream pie, 
Bacon and egg pie 
Caramel tart  Canelé pie
Derby pie 
Empanada, Egg tart pie
Flan p...
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Categories: the solent, addiction, analogy, appreciation, food,
Form: ABC

Cheap Watch Priceless Moments Ffd2

...I bought the watch I wrote about in my dream

I have it here at present with me

I wear it on my wrist

To remind me

Of what I am not quite sure

But the price will be worth it

I fear
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Categories: the solent, cute love,
Form: Free verse

Virtual Cocaine

...Something relevant for the current scenario:
Social media addiction.

VIRTUAL COCAINE

The clock on the wall strikes midnight,
I still hold on to my phone very tight,
With lights off I still s...
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Categories: the solent, abuse, addiction, analogy, community,
Form: Free verse

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