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Somerset Poems - Poems about Somerset


Premium Member The George Inn
January years ago, confused far away I was with the cold. Landed in Bristol on a snowy airport, as snowed were the meadows and frosted my mind. A trip to say hello and goodbye to a beloved one, taking my hand, she closed her fading eyes into her last sigh. I saw the dark face of life turning...

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Categories: somerset, adventure, blessing, emotions, england,
Form: Haibun
Of the Larke Cumb
(etymology of a surname: Larcombe) somewhere in the deepest dark of Somerset, was a secret cumb, I know of not yet where ancients did note that many a Larke would wing, for food, to brood, and sing in those times a cumb was understated with trees aplenty in it's forest, where insects unabated, invite the Larke fated to dance with them as their guest. as such, much gratiated, the...

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Categories: somerset, environment, journey, nature, society,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member River Avon
Strolling by the River Avon, I found somebody, Strolling to nowhere, I found a person. I looked at the river, I followed the water. I saw somebody walking to Bath. He was my old friend the tailor. Very well known he was. Near to...

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Categories: somerset, 2nd grade, adventure, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn Gold In Somerset Dialect
Dozy with Cider The tavern was quiet but for old farmer John, when the Kings rider strode in demanding a bed, He ordered his ale and sat next to the old sage, “Where be all the villagers?” he said. Farmer John took a sip from his tankard and smiled, “What brings you to our village, good sire?” The rider frowned, then with...

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Categories: somerset, birth, culture, drink, england,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Somerset Blues
Back then she was singing the blues, In a smaller club where the sunset- Splashed the walls in various hues, On a plummy street called Somerset. I was introduced to her backstage, In that far away, long ago place, Before she had become all the rage, With her jet-setter's renowned face. Her voice then was as liquid gold, And eyes reflected the bright lights, And...

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Categories: somerset, blue, culture, music, people,
Form: Rhyme



Sudden Apparitions In the Night In Rural Somerset
White cars stationary on their roofs blocking rural arteries whilst severing others Unexpected loss of vertical hold and bodily functions frozen in the failing headlights Beautiful greenery ablaze, beside the twisted wreckage of man. A movement shakes away broken glass and the tarmac writhes free of the terrible pictures Running on the wide screen’s of my mind. Dripping petrol...

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Categories: somerset, confusion, death, loss, people,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things