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Hull Poems - Poems about Hull


A Man Of Hull
One of our local heroes: his record of try’s in a season has still not been beaten. Jack Harrison VC, MC A Temporary Gentleman Not really the right sort Just a common school master Who played professional sport, But he was a volunteer Not a Conscripted man Volunteering for service Soon after war began. A Temporary Gentleman Who came to the good Charged a machine...

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Categories: hull, conflict, courage, in memoriam,
Form: Rhyme
Hull Cenotaph, Remembrance Sunday, 2018
The Guildhall clock chimes Eleven times this special day, A great silence descends as The two minutes tick away. On parade at the Cenotaph, An old man among old men (Where did the years go for In my mind I’m young again): Not in best battledress Or even Regimental Blues But I’m booted and suited With not quite bulled shoes, And the old drill moves come back So...

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Categories: hull, anniversary, emotions, patriotic, remembrance
Form: Rhyme



The Humber Ferry
By heck it was cold on the Humber ferry The water was deep and Hull smelled like leather May I mention the bridge it’s all there’s left The boat man’s gone, it must be the Styx Right it was cold on the Humber ferry !ow I’m a widow from him who I married His mother was Hilda his father was Harry His...

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Categories: hull, age, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Hull Fair
Hull fair October and it arrives, Hull fair is a family thing, As children parents take you, Teenagers you go with mates, As adults you take your kids, I've not seen in years now, No grandchildren you see. In my life time it's always arrived and I'm 55, I still remember the sights, sounds and shouts of joy, Hull fair brings it all to all...

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Categories: hull, joy, october, places,
Form: Free verse
Bill Hull-My Father
No sunrise sparkled brighter, No thunder clapped, No trumpet sounded at your birth. You were just born, Grew to live youth, To fish back country ponds, summer streams, Run roadways and highways like a deer, To work, to marry, Raise a family, Retire to loneliness, To find yourself Within yourself In back woods you loved. Your friends were trees, As were birds, and clouds and summer flowers And...

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Categories: hull, tribute,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member It's Been a Hull of a Life
I'm going to sea in a blueberry boat paddling far past fakers and breakers where I'm told there's happiness and hope more givers and doers not dreamers and takers. I'll sing salty songs with sharks and gulls, until they nibble away my blueberry hull and gift this soul unto the deep blueness-...

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Categories: hull, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Letter To Ronald Hull On His Comment On Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn
LETTER to RON" Diary Notes : Lament at Dawn - A Year Ago Yet Now No Change " Reviewed by Ronald Hull 8/19/2018 "Quite a lament! The state of Paris at dawn. Just the thought of sewage seeping down through the walls gives me the willies. Yes, Paris is not the same. But has it ever been? Always...

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Categories: hull, conflict, immigration, paris, political,
Form: Free verse
Hull, City of Culture 2017
Hull is the great and unique city where I was born Sitting on the Humber estuary...proud and all alone Known for keeping Charles I and his army out through courage and bravery Also the birthplace of William Wilberforce who helped abolish slavery The most bombed city outside of London during the 2nd World War This made a strong community stronger...

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Categories: hull, birth, city, culture, fishing,
Form: Rhyme

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