All Poems

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New Year Poem

© Barry Tebb

For Jeremy Reed

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Apologies For Absence

© Barry Tebb

Sorry, Neil Oram (with an orange in my pocket)

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To Daisy Abey

© Barry Tebb

In sleep I dream the gratitude I know I cannot say

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The Brus Book VIII

© John Barbour


[The king in Kyle]

The king fra Schyr Aymer wes gane

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Incompatabilities

© Barry Tebb

For Brenda Williams

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The Lover Speaks To The Hearers Of His Songs In Coming Days

© William Butler Yeats

O WOMEN, kneeling by your altar-rails long hence,

When songs I wove for my beloved hide the prayer,

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For James Simmons

© Barry Tebb

Sitting in outpatients

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The River

© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

It is a venerable place,

  An old ancestral ground,

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Directions/misdirections

© Barry Tebb

I sit inside the train of tears

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Sorry I Missed You

© Barry Tebb

(or ‘Huddersfield the Second Poetry Capital of England Re-visited’)

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In The Train

© Sara Teasdale

Fields beneath a quilt of snow
From which the rocks and stubble sleep,
And in the west a shy white star
That shivers as it wakes from deep.

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Open Letter To Andy C.

© Barry Tebb

Sorry, Writer in Residence on the Great North Run

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The Beach Comber

© Harry Kemp


I'd like to return to the world again,

To the dutiful, work-a-day world of men, -

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Thomas Heywood: X

© Algernon Charles Swinburne

TOM, if they loved thee best who called thee Tom.

  What else may all men call thee, seeing thus bright

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Lines on the Opening of a Spring Campaign

© Amelia Opie

Spring! thy impatient bloom restrain!
Nor wake so soon thy genial power;
For deeds of death must hail thy reign,
And clouds of fate around thee lower:….

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To Brenda Williams ‘writing Against The Grain’

© Barry Tebb

It was Karl Shapiro who wrote in his ‘Defence of Ignorance’ how many poets

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The Day-Dream

© Dante Gabriel Rossetti

THE thronged boughs of the shadowy sycamore

Still bear young leaflets half the summer through;

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A Memory At Sixty

© Barry Tebb

They have vanished, the pop men with their varnished crates

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Of Bronze—and Blaze

© Emily Dickinson

My Splendors, are Menagerie—
But their Completeless Show
Will entertain the Centuries
When I, am long ago,
An Island in dishonored Grass—
Whom none but Beetles—know.