A Yorkist Gentleman
...Harry Horsman in poesy clad
a white rose bred Yorkshire lad
A PoetrySoup stalwart many a year
always true and sincere...
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Categories:
yorkist, obituary,
Form: Clerihew
Clerihew Congreve
...Yorkist poet/playwright William Congreve
got his critics a little peeved
His writing became a bit erotic
within his very fine lyric...
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Categories:
yorkist, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Brexit Sonnet 14 - One Tragic Production
...Brexit Sonnet No.14
‘One Tragic Production’
Witness now this Carillion carry on;
Be it victim of its boundless chiming debt,
Or government multi-tasking gene now gone.
One tragic production...
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Categories:
yorkist, political,
Form: Sonnet
A Simple Story
...I was born in 1943
in a rural backwater safe from the bombs
also a safety net still akin to the 19th century.
Neither electricity nor gas
only an old oil lamp and candles for comfort.
The luxury...
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Categories:
yorkist, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
My Middle Name
...This is possibly
a useless piece of information,
but in Yorkshire where I was born
we only have an alphabet
of twenty five letters,
as all true Yorkist will tell you
there is no ‘H’ in our dial...
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Categories:
yorkist, funny,
Form: Free verse