The Chronicles of a Steel City Man
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THE BOMB
This is a poem loosely based on my experiences as a soldier in Northern Ireland, specifically in South Armagh. It’s a bright day in the Province And Jack Frost is about All’s quiet on watch And then, There’s a shout … …
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A Poignant Journey of Love and Loss
THE VOID … A TALE OF LOVE AND LOSS … This is a tale of a love so strong,It burned like the eternal flameIt filled our hearts with an unshakable bondAnd our souls with love untamed.For fifty short years we traveled life’s roadTogether we laughed and we criedAll the while our love’s light glowedWe were…
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Vlogging Lockdown Poetry: A Creative Exploration
VLOGGING WITH ‘LOCKDOWN POETRY’ Hi, a rare addition to this page of poetry, with a shout-out for my Youtube channel, steelcityman Why steelcityman ?, Well I was born and bred in Steel City…SHEFFIELD even though I now live in LEEDS, WEST YORKSHIRE, I’m a Steel City man at heart. LOCKDOWN POETRY… In The dim and…
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TOO MUCH WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE…
Of course at 74 years old, as much as I wanted to, I could not reach for him…he was far too fast …
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MUCH WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE…
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A STEEL CITY MAN… DAY .. WHATEVER … # 4 Still in the Barnstable Krankenhaus (North Devon District Hospital), incarcerated far, far from the Steel City where my home is. Feeling a lot better but still waiting for an Angiogram in Exeter, where there is a long waiting list…
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MUCH WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE ..day whatever #3
Here we are again…still in the North Devon District hospital, frittering away my ‘holiday’, wired up to state of the art technology, which is eating my telemetry like a Hungry Hippo. I can amuse myself by messing with the readings, holding my breath for a while, causing the wavy lines to change, or doing exercises…
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MUCH WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE .. DAY WHATEVER!!
The holiday got off to a good start, a good start indeed! in fact, the only good thing so far (as far as holidays go) Was the great hotel, The Park hotel, the food is/was excellent and the staff went the extra mile at all times. The single most enjoyable thing of my stay so…
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Much water under the bridge-DAY #1.
Lovely day to start the road trip down to DEVON for cream teas and a posh hotel. Being as my home county is YORKSHIRE, I can’t see there is much to shout about down there, I mean what can possibly be better than God’s own County, Yorkshire? It’s been a funny start to the trip.…
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MUCH WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE …
As the old saying goes, “A lot of water has gone under the bridge” since I last posted a ‘steelcityman’ blog, and just like water, life rushes by, faster as you get older, or it seems that way to me. I’m 73 years old now, and feeling every year of it. It’s a time of reckoning…
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Another day in A&E
This is a re blog of a post I wrote some years ago whilst ‘people watching’ in the Emergency Dept., at my local Hospital. My wife and I had taken Mum and Dad (now sadly deceased) down to the Emergency room as Dad was in excruciating pain and could barely move, let alone walk. The…
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