Football Poets

World's largest football poetry site. 17700+ poems. Exists to inspire writing & reading through football for all. Est: Stroud 2000. Archived by British Library.

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@PhilB1883 Hi Phil..Crispin here from Football Poets.Are you coming to FGR on Friday by any chance ...on your way to L1 and ours to NL? . Would be great to say hello....

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@PatThomas1964 @MickPuck @RTEArena More than Rhythmic Beat of Poetry and Freak Flags to Fly, Allen Ginsberg (1993) and Mike Scott (2014) have also both appeared at Cheltenham Festival of Literature. I was also incredibly fortunate enough to be at both.

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And so the flame has been snuffed out completely Stanley, oh Stanley
Rebel, non conformist - vices and temptations You succumbed to so sadly..
(extract from Stan Bowles- a tribute’ by joe morris) Stan Bowles RIP (1948-2024) For poem: https://t.co/ao0yL7pbR1

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@MickPuck In 69 we hooked up with a bunch of Moroccan travelling musicians who played te cafe’s for tips . At one café ‘The Dancing Boy ’mainly men watched boys dance while smoking Kif on clay pipes. This...as ever more-delicious cakes appeared as the evening and effects wore on.

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@SmaragdinaVisio @MickPuck Of course he does! Rupert always had a lover of all things deep and Eastern . I treasured his annuals and was inspired by his adventures and still do. He was right up there with the hookah smoking caterpillar in Alice.

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@MickPuck Looks like you're having a great time Mike.Taskes me right back to being in htast square in 69 during Ramadan...My sister Samantha, who screenwrites for Emmerdale(!) now loves in Marrakesh x.

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@MickPuck Great pics https://t.co/Samdyim7yK Marrakesh. We first hitched there in 69 .Those skies over the market place at sunset and the cats everywhere,j ust like back then! Bought a piece of amethyst from a little kid up in the Atlas Mountains. Stil got it. Good times.

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@ajordanwildlife @Paulepicado I only got to see one hidden in a tree on its own the day I went up there Paul..close to the fallen magic tree...Crispin

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@MickPuck Klaus Voorman's imaginative and inspiring design (to me) found the Beatles in mid-muddle times, but it did get me into flour-glue pasting in collage and stuff. A kind of fore-runner of certain 70s/80s hand-made photocopied fanzines. My copy disppeared in a bed-sit in Fulham.

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@MickPuck Actually the behaviour and posturing becomes more scary the more the view it...

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@MickPuck Fisherman's Purples?

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@MickPuck Looks awesome Mike..Happy New year from Stroud

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Mr Wordsworth walks to Bolton ~ He wandered lonely as a cloud
At evening in the encroaching dark ~ When all at once he saw a crowd...........(extract from
‘IN SEARCH OF LOST GROUNDS’ by Graham Salter)
Poem: https://t.co/nRtYOggInt Image : When Saturday Comes magazine.

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@FGRFC_Official Mr Wordsworth walks to Bolton ~ He wandered lonely as a cloud
At evening in the encroaching dark ~ When all at once he saw a crowd
....(extract from ‘IN SEARCH OF LOST GROUNDS’ by Graham Salter) Poem: https://t.co/nRtYOggInt Image courtesy of When Saturday Comes.

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‘Pelé’
The grace of genius
In the blood
Subtle as a glance
The intuitive knowledge
Announced with
The undisputed joy.....(extract )
c.Sharon Jones - Dec 29 2022.
For poem : https://t.co/qgu7iSsTn6

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Wembley you’ve been livin’ hell to me with your Hanger Lane gyratory
traffic for no reason, regardless of the season, and the IKEA cafe’s run out of lingonberry.
Wembley I hate every inch of you
.(extract from ‘Wembley’ by Alex Saynor )
Poem: https://t.co/2cqKLCkseE

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On another day-an able Kane could have, would have won the gamefter all a second pen is a cinch, a cert, a doddle? Alas, the England skipper blew his chance of extra time against a fast-fading France
To join the ranks of Southgate, Pearce and Waddle...
(kevin raymond)

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Pundits raving about the World Cup 2022.
But let’s not forget the bigger picture here.
A Qatar backdrop of discrimination and fear.
(extract from The ‘Bigger Picture’ by Mike Bartram
https://t.co/GCWEGJdXsh

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let’s boycott Qatar it’s wrong for heaven’s sake
however little diff’rence our non-viewing will make..
let’s go watch a small club while games go on at home
while they just greenwash endlessly to justify their own
(extract)~ Poem:https://t.co/CN8nqiuxeP

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@MickPuck all through my childhood
you were all a cad should be ...
well hello ding dong!
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Leslie Phillips RIP. Legend from a different world when mangles were king! Impeccable timing. The epitome of raffish naugtiness. Carry onward well Mr P.