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Worcester Poems - Poems about Worcester

A New Museum

...To visit a museum 
Where you’ve never been before
Means you have the opportunity 
To amble and explore.

At the Worcester* Art Museum
Were mosaics on display 
And some special arms and armor
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Categories: worcester, art,
Form: Rhyme

A Dash Of Worcester

...A spider dropped into my soup
oxtail it was
with a dash of Worcester
he popped right up 
and made for shore
not too hairy
nor too large
for a heart-beat
I could only stare 
as he bobbed abou...
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Categories: worcester, perspective,
Form: Free verse



Hotch Potch Soup

...I start off being optimistic
With my big saucepan
Only as a last resort will I ever
Eat  soup from a can.
I assemble all the ingredients
From a list I’ve not written down
Caremelise the onions....
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Categories: worcester, adventure, food, humor, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberProud Red Rooster

...I am a proud red rooster
  from the friendly town of Worcester*
Equipped with a brain the size of a pea
  I'm glad it's my red comb that people see

The highlight of every day
  comes early my ...
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Categories: worcester, 3rd grade, bird, morning,
Form: Light Verse

My Guests

...I had set up the table with a tablecloth full of memories
That will leave them mesmerised
The smell that was coming from the kitchen door
It tickled the taste buds
I had outdone myself this time
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Categories: worcester, africa, age, celebration, change,
Form: Free verse



Excremental

...I cooked a pie with 
For my husband, the old git,
Cos he really had been upsetting me
I used a very special pastry
That was so light and tasty
To help disguise the flavour, OMG!

The carrots, ...
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Categories: worcester, fun, giggle, satire,
Form: I do not know?

Mimi and Mary T

...Mimi and Mary T.
By

M P Walsh


It was 25 December,
And a snug-warm Christmas day.
The temp was over 50,
The weather: bright, not gray.

But a sadness on this Sunday fair
Perplexed me......
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Categories: worcester, celebration, death,
Form: Ode

Saucey Suncream

...A fruity smell,
An apple smell,
A peachy, strawberry, grapey smell
Sugary, bitter and sweet.

Cream-like,
Soup-like,
Anything at all like,
That keeps everything cool in the heat.

You get b...
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Categories: worcester, summer, sun,
Form: Rhyme

Beggar's End

...From back streets, alleys and hedgerows they came,
all sorts of people with children and dogs
filling the Chapel like a hall of fame;
the smell in the air had a whiff of bogs.

The best beggar i...
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Categories: worcester, death, funeral, grave, religious,
Form: Quatrain

As You Call

...AS YOU CALL    
                                                                    
Threads ripple across space                                              
 as you draw pictures with your cells...
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Categories: worcester, 12th grade, body, dog,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Heart Made Hatchet -2

...Hannah, I haven't seen or heard you cry
not in the gray of winter day
or in the cold silence of our prisoner nights,
the others can hardly keep up with you on the marches
your face is changeless ...
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Categories: worcester, america,
Form: Epic

All Movement Stopped

...Like children, pages
  drift away adolescent, 
  refusing what I offer

Defiant
  in their questions,
  beyond all answers in their parting

Forcing what’s left, to live trapped
  in the aba...
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Categories: worcester, words,
Form: Free verse

Ian Sagar

...At the age of 17 Ian broke his back, 
In a motorbike accident, had rehab, 
He then worked for a w/c company, 
Who showed him w/c basketball fab. 

For 3 years he played in the club, 
Of the She...
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Categories: worcester, basketball, sports, strength,
Form: Rhyme

Phil Pratt

...Phil is a Welshman from Cardiff, basketball,
Who plays for the club the Sheffield Steelers,
On the 2nd February 1994 he was born tall,
And wears vest 11 for TeamGB, has feelers.

His classificat...
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Categories: worcester, basketball, sports, strength,
Form: Quatrain

Ade Orogbemi

...Ade is a 2.5 wheelchair basketball player, 
Who was born in Lagos in Nigeria in 1978,
His home town is Liverpool, a Mersey sayer,
In Spain club BSR Amiab Albacete is a date. 

He lives partly in...
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Categories: worcester, basketball, sports, strength,
Form: Quatrain

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