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Wantage Poems - Poems about Wantage


Passing By
...I was travelling. I still am, but once upon a time I was on my way through a particular place. It was north of Wantage that I stopped and stepped out of my car to survey a white canyon.......

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Categories: wantage, creation, earth, god, journey,
Form: Free verse
Roadworks
...ROAD WORKS AHEAD FOLLOW THE DIVERSION Road-works ? I’d rather have potholes ! Or go on foot, on leather soles. Engines braying, tempers fraying More gas, more water, More electric, fibre-......

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Categories: wantage, urban,
Form: Free verse



Alfred the Great
...Alfred the Great (born Wantage, 849) Market place; he stands in isolation. Known for culinary conflagration, The object of two vandalous attacks – How scandalous to steal his battle axe ! He b......

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Categories: wantage, history,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ridgeway Rambles
...Avebury a Wiltshire village low To windswept beacon of Ivinghoe. Eighty-five miles,vale and hill Wayfare freedoms,exhilarate and thrill. Striding downs in grassy scrub Midst trees and clumps o......

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Categories: wantage, places,
Form: Ballad

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