Tyne Poems - Poems about 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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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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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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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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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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