Guy Fawkes' Night
...Guy Fawkes' Night
By the middle of October the piles are growing.
English weather fails to dampen
childhood enterprise.
Gangs traverse the streets in forage
To drag, on broken prams, a hoard,...
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Categories:
woodbines, autumn, childhood, death, fire,
Form: Free verse
The Ten Shilling Note
...As a very young boy of fourteen I set out one night through the week
To meet my girlfriend from Girl Guides, the beautiful Angelique
It was a dark and windy evening and just as I put on my coat
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Categories:
woodbines, age, childhood, dad, girlfriend,
Form: Rhyme
New Quay Harbour
...I sit upon the harbour wall
And feel the warm sun on my face.
I turn my gaze far out to sea
And watch the happy dolphins play.
Bright sunbeams slanting through the clouds
Are searchlights toying...
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Categories:
woodbines, nature, places, sea,
Form: Blank verse
Made In Sheffield
...Made in Sheffield by Steven Cooke
Its Early Morning, a mist descends into the valley.
Not a Mist, from some love poem, but a fog forged in graft.
No sun shines here, for there is no welcome.
For her...
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Categories:
woodbines, life, nostalgia, workmen, work,
Form: I do not know?
Waiting For the Bloodbath (1917)
...There, at the parapet, part-built with corpses,
Where we dug out the two year old bones of the French,
Stands on the second rung of the ladder,
The corporal keeping watch from the lip of the trenc...
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Categories:
woodbines, death, history, life, loss,
Form: Verse