Val 'N Tyne
At sweet sixteen she'd never been kissed
And then she met Miss Kuni Lynn Guist
A sweet Valentine
Would suit her just fine
And Mr. Wright would never be missed
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Categories:
tyne, word play,
Form: Limerick
Call of the Tyne
CALL OF THE TYNE
The river fog grey-green
Hides the silent piers
Of bridges which lead
To roads unknown.
The Tyne’s call of the deep -
Fog-horn, long missed
And far buried within me,
Shows the hidden way unknown;
Feels slowly cautiously
Through miles years
With low-pitch note,
Penetrates the unknown.
13 October 2019
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Categories:
tyne, river,
Form: Free verse
Anzac Day 2018 - Tyne Cot Cemetery
Tyne Cot War Cemetery
White head stones in countless rows
Soldiers all from the Great War battles
Thousands dead now glory served
Each one a son and loved one
Victoria Cross engraved as heroes found
Known unto God a sad refrain written
On the stone “Their name liveth for Evermore”
A Christian Cross on top of a German pill-box
Sacrifice for the “War to
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Categories:
tyne, world war i,
Form: Free verse
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, ENGLAND
Half-Scot, half-English and ill at ease with the past,
Newcastle is sooty black from its coaly drama,
And the breathless town was always in a hurry to grow,
Narrowly avoiding destruction of its past or leaping over it.
Up on the plateau,
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Categories:
tyne, urban
Form: Free verse
Tyne _ Built Ship 1968
TYNE - BUILT SHIP 1968
Gigantic steel behemoth
Sitting on the ways greased
And ready to give it birth,
Ten-storey-high street-darkener,
Rusted and immobile -
Once launched in silent swish
And cheered by a thousand voices,
Transformed to marine elegance,
And slimmed by the vastness
Of the endless ocean -
She moves easily in her
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Categories:
tyne,
Form: Free verse