Hull Poems - Poems about 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...Read the rest...

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...Read the rest...

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...Read the rest...

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...Read the rest...

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...Read the rest...

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...Read the rest...

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...Read the rest...

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...Read the rest...