Football Poets

I dreamt last night that Shakespeare’s Ghost
Went for an English teaching post
The English paper for that year
Had several questions on King Lear
But Shakespeare answered less than three
Too bad he failed GCSE! […]

In 1950
The Labour government
Was relelected with a majority
Of just 6 but for Bevin time is racing
Matisse with his bold colours
Won the Grand Prize at the Venice
Art festival and his generous heart
Shared the […]

The Banks of the Mersey have always been
A land for those frm across the seas
Songs and words and new togues bold
Grace our town with vibrant soul

Liverpool Scene and always heard
Rich with poetry Henri’s […]

And those bruises that blossomed like roses
And those wishes that died on the vine
All here in the shadows that cling to
The promise of water and wine

And day is for fishers of wisdom
Whose yoke is the burden of […]

Water into wine
Fishes and loaves
Oh these ragged miracles
Pass into echoes and shadows
Shattered emblems of modernity
No burning Monet will sieze
Upon the ambition and colours of your
Immortality
Claim the pitch […]

Hamlet planning in defence
The best way to attack
Macbeth with blood and thunder
And his missus on his back
King Lear he blames the weather
Whilst his girls they just swap sides
Hal scores 4 for Hotspur
As John […]

Are you Neruda? Lorca? Desnos?
Does the burning heart of their wisdom
Trace the blood of your heart
Are you man alone?
What dreams gather pace in the journey
Of your blood
What fugitive’s glory binds your boots […]

They write of genies on the pitches
‘Next Big Thing’ pinned onto walls
But whilst their boots are blessed with spells
They’re not the boots of
Bobby Moore

They came as Kopa, Muller, Johnny Rep
Like Cantona […]

They were Roger Hunt and Charlie George
Georgie Best and Denis Law
Bobby Charlton Johnny Haynes
But I was always
Bobby Moore

They copied Norman Hunter Billy Bremner
Just Fontaine and Pele scored
Rivelino Puskas […]

A long, long time ago… I can still remember how
His football used to make me smile.
And he knew if he had a chance,
That he could make that terrace dance,
And make the people happy for a while
But September […]

The Justice Bell tolls
Ninety six times “Ninety six”
Chimes the Justice Bell.

Football poems tumbling from 10,000 feet
Weaving between the dreams and aspirations
Of sky and pitch
Meet between the gaps of words
Messi melted more wings than Icarus
His blistering boots sparked by […]

Fickle these football gods
Make sport of us all
With a turn of fortune’s wheel
And a flick of the ball.

But not Bad Boy Balotelli
He’s a Frankie Worthington in bling
Stan Bowles with a decent haircut
One or two spectacular goals
For metube and fame is sign sealed and twittered
But Barca for all of their verve and […]

How times have changed
Education now recognizes the impact of football
Marketing Media and Finance
That tripartite of success…
Ghosts of Clarets past smile out from black and white nostalgia
Whilst I think of […]

Your diamond eyes
23 Carra blue
Batter my heart
Like Gerrard’s boots

This Ring of Fire Allez Les Rouges
My Kenny Dalglish my Ian Rush
You trap my dreams Nutmeg my soul
You’re Shankly’s words
You’re Robbie’s […]

Messi plays football no strings attached
His tricks Hundreds & Thousands scattered
Sky bound aerial acrobats
Black arrows dive bombing
Breach traffic lights mock hidden lenses
Dart left then right cut strips of […]

Come back Kenny
And turn defences dizzy
With your Presley hips
As your magic dazzles all who watch
Come back Kenny
And once more your name an anthem
Reaches the Red skies from throats
Blistered with hope and […]

Our voice in the wild
Wastelands of new poetry
Football Poets Heard.

Come back Kenny
And turn defences dizzy
With your Presley hips
As your magic dazzles all who watch
Come back Kenny
And once more your name an anthem
Reaches the Red skies from throats
Blistered with hope and […]