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BargePoem

Handbook for Bargemen, Lightermen and Tugmen of the Thames: Charles T.Perfect

Look Out Whether sailing close hauled or running free-LOOK OUT!  Whatever the weather, wherever you be-LOOK OUT!  You cannot avoid a thing you don't see-so LOOK OUT!  When coming to anchor, or stowing up sail-LOOK OUT!  Or washing the decks with mop and pail-LOOK OUT!  Whatever you're doing never fail to-LOOK OUT!  It is easy to hit an object that's…
alyson
October 8, 2019
DebenPoem

The Deben by Kit Clark

The Deben Gives us much pleasure, Boats sail their measure, Against ebb and flow, Against winds high and low, Just walking the shore. Knowing there is more, Each day a different hue. Each day a changing view, Sands enjoyed by tots, All spades, buckets and pots, Birds that stay and feed. Dabbling in the weed, A veritable garden of Eden,…
alyson
January 25, 2019
2009 at WarPoemWW2

A Suffolk Village by Stella James

Early morning, early summer, the sun rises over the village on a perfect Englishday. Bobby opens up the garage while up the road Miss Bloomfield in the Post Office drinks her first tea of the day, dusts the shelves in the tiny lean-to shop, polishes the jars of jelly babies and dolly mixtures, farthing a bag, bull’s-eyes, 1/2d. a half-a-dozen.…
alyson
January 25, 2019
Poem

1950s My Village by G Waller

MY VILLAGE We loved our dear old village, So many years our home. Still welcome never fails us. Whenever back we come. Its peaceful tidal river, The woodland, meadow, moor: They each recall a memory. Some treasured one of yore. Unrivalled charm that river; It seemed, a thing apart," A moorland ramble, picnic, Scarce less such joy of heart. Whilst…
WaldringfieldHG WaldringfieldHG
December 12, 2018
Poem

1929-1989 Poem Waldringfield Village Hall

When all our pensioners were lads And lasses, they would play Right up the village, past the school Where a field abandoned lay. Cricket and such, in spite of ruts And bumps among the hay. Arthur Bloomfield Then sixty years ago this year An army hut was found Which Arthur Bloomfield had put up On that same piece of ground…
alyson
February 17, 2018