Tag - Poetry

Poetry from Andover’s Poet Laureate and collections of work from other Andover poets.

Poet's Corner

Midnight on Mars

In the land of forever night where all the clocks stopped at midnight. Were the ghosts of hundreds of thousands graves whose bodies were enslaved by a spirit...

Poet's Corner

My Poltergeist wife

In the whisperer of the nights breeze in the murmur of words she softly said  I knew she wasn’t really dead in the movement of the trees outside, with their...

Poet's Corner

Hallowiener the brat worst

Maybe I am too old for trick or treating But I am not retreating I want all the sweets I am not a fat cat I am a tiger I am on those haribo and I am hyper Like...

Poet's Corner

Storytelling

In the minds of men and women are stories imagined. Where dragons roam a giant lives in his cloud home on his cast iron metal throne. Fantastical dreams where...

Poet's Corner

Anthony

My imaginary friend or ghost of a little boy Who had one eye green and one eye blue Taken into special needs, not knowing why not having a clue. He asked me...

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Love Andover radio station poem

Andover Radio on air off air, Love Andover cares. Gives access to education and the arts seeks to bring cohesion to an expanding population through news, views...

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What it means to be British

Having a takeaway at your gaff eating out a cafe. Queuing when there isn’t even a sign. Having a pint to tickle your twine cold and flat with an amber shine...

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Ghosts of war

One day they will beat the last war drum and we will hear the rattle the hum and the clatter of the earth as it shatters Everyone has a grave waiting out there...