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Gloucester Poems - Poems about Gloucester

Premium Member Under the Weather
...Dr. Foster lived in old fashioned London, and was content to stay there; As red roses are content being caressed, by the wind from everywhere. Dr. Foster loved his daily routine, like the......

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Categories: gloucester, beauty, fantasy, home, london,
Form: Couplet
Convalescence of Richard McGeehan
...Convalescence of Richard McGeehan Spouse of my eldest sister marital bond fixed in place strong as mortise and tenon, he hales of hearty Irish stock genes of said septuagenarian analogous to ......

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Categories: gloucester, absence, america, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse



Peace of Cheese
...Can you forget that piece of cheese that you inhaled? Oh, just a crumb it was. But breathing while chewing, then choking! Was it Cheddar, Cheshire? Or that Limburger, Parmesan? But, oh, that p......

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Categories: gloucester, anger, food, health, peace,
Form: Free verse
Coronation for a King
...(Charles Philip Arthur George - b. 14 November 1948) I had a cousin called Charles, said Aunty Olive. Nice young man. That's him on our TV. That's not cousin: it's King, said Aunty Lucy. It'......

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Categories: gloucester, age, celebrity, eulogy, london,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wayward-Thinking Lover
...Once was a smart, forward-thinking young lady in Gloucester Her wayward-thinking lover she summarily oustered Since his libido he couldn’t control, Ceremoniously, he had to go And soon, t......

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Categories: gloucester, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Save the World
...[Dearest American friends... Gloucester is pronounced ‘Glosster’] * A sleepy old town in deep darkest Gloucester A stranger in town must be an imposter He does......

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Categories: gloucester, girl, hero, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sassy Lassie
...There was a young lady from Gloucester Whose flippant ways really cost her She snapped at a preacher Who tried hard to reach her And, finally, he up and tossed her. written July 10, 2021......

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Categories: gloucester, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Moments of Reflection
...I believe I fell asleep last year at the cusp of a new agenda. As a new virus took root, I found myself eradicated from society in a way I never imagined. All of a sudden instead of immersing myse......

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Categories: gloucester, death, loss,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
...They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters: These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep. From the 107th psalm It......

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Categories: gloucester, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Cathedral Church of Gloucester
...She is a beauty with her vaulted ceilings and cloisters. Has been parading about for over a thousand years Showing off her English gothic architecture. Cathedral Church of St. Peter and the Holy......

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Categories: gloucester, christian,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Perfect Ending
...When fate’s hands joined together, pounding seas A monstrous storm placed fishing boats at risk I called to Billy, “Captain, listen please, Turn ‘round, the seas are high and wind too brisk” ......

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Categories: gloucester, nature, sea,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Perfect Storm
...Beyond the bay the sun peeked over waves; calm belied what destiny would tell. A statue peers where sailors served and gave, so far from Gloucester shores where seagulls yell. So far from shelter......

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Categories: gloucester, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inhaling the Sea
...(This does have some internal rhyme) In the fall of ninety one a November morn had just begun as harbor bells rang loud and echoed all around sad Gloucester town. Lost within a perfect stor......

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Categories: gloucester, funeral, lost,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentythird Legal By T Wignesan
...Translation of Eric Mottram’s Twentythird Legal by T. Wignesan Le vingt-troisième légal pendant la guerre le peuple devient obéissent de nouveau plein du respect (et) de la confiance les en......

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Categories: gloucester, america, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's 1922 Section 1 In Earth Raids 1976 By T Wignesan
...Translation of Eric Mottram’s 1922 Section 1 by T. Wignesan for David Attoe Notre devise pourrait être: ‘que nous nous ne soyons pas envoûtés’ Wittgenstein in Zettel laissez pendre la ......

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Categories: gloucester, america, culture, earth, word
Form: Free verse

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