Sharon Jones
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 9 months ago
It’s like coming home
Opening the fixture list
Checking who we play first
Then looking when we play them blue noses
The hopes and dreams new season bring
Ignite my soul as I count down to that first g […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 11 months ago
John Lennon
He wore a red and white scarf
But did not play much football
And when he raced across Strawberry Fields
He ghosted between the spaces of childhood
Slipped unnoticed behind the gaps
Where nothing […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years ago
How much money do you really need
Is it market forces or just plain greed
How many Ferraris in the drive
The constant snort of I ME MINEWhen will your pot of sporting gold
Manifest in terms of stay or […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years ago
There’s a war in Yemen
But does anybody care
There’s a war in Yemen
Near a million disappearedAlan Shearer makes his comments
Ukraine’s plight has left him shocked
But he sings a different toon
For […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years ago
We are romantic about football
Eulogising our heroes
Those chivalrous gallant knights of the pitch
But when the smoke of love disperses
And we look and see
Those football boots of clay
Caked in the mud […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years ago
Kelleher steps up
Alisson sits on the bench
The Cup’s in safe hands. -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 1 month ago
“Guess who’s been on Match of The Day?”
“You have in yer big shorts!”
‘Anarchy in Timperley’ the soundtrack of
My teenage years
Frank and his fantastic shopping trolley
The genius of a paper Mache […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 1 month ago
Your eyes shine
Like Mané through
Your lips as red
As 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 […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 1 month ago
On the outside of football boots
We recognise branding and logos
And crave those stripes or swoopsWe believe that by wearing these artefacts
Of rubber and plastic
Our feet will be transformed
And we […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 1 month ago
Sculpture is the art of stripping away
What does not need to be there
Cutting away what is not necessary
Idols
Addictions
CompulsionsSo that we see the beauty
That was always there, hidden within […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 1 month ago
Like Michelangelo’s David
We are entrapped in stone
Waiting to be freed
To set foot upon those playing fields
Unfettered
ChildlikeJust a ball and a patch of green grass
“Football’s such a simpl […] -
Sharon Jones commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 years, 2 months ago
It’s weird to see it happening, especially when you consider the price of tickets at PL games. So much action often happens in the final 5 mins!
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 2 months ago
I wonder if these people
exit the stage before the last act
leave the cinema before the final scene
start sentences that are left wordless in the air
turn off the road before reaching the destination
open a […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 2 months ago
THE PRESENT
These old bones
Rattling tackling moaning groaning
Inch invisibly
Along the inevitable roadTHE PAST
Kennedy, McDermott, Keegan
The Kings of Rome
Bob’s ghost
Those Durham vowels […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 2 months ago
No doubt that Bill
Would eager thrill
To the fire of Salah’s fame
But I think like me
He would yearn unapologetically
For the game
From whence he came. -
Sharon Jones commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 years, 2 months ago
Boss poem Lee.
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 2 months ago
Rock & Roll & Football
Two halves that make one whole
The terrace throng we sing along
God bless this mighty soulThe Game is nowt without the fans
That pulsing swaying roar
Of songs & chants the shards […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 3 months ago
It’s just a game
Not life and death
We know this old refrain,
A leather ball
A muddy pitch
And childhood, once again. -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 3 months ago
“Football” said Bill Shankly
Is a very simple game”
Life and Love and Poetry
Methinks should be the same! -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 3 months ago
1980, 16 years old, and when not at Anfield
I would be posited in Probe Records
And once when deciding to buy an old vinyl of The Cramps
Pete Burns muttered “good choice that”
And I floated down Mathew Str […] - Load More
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