with love (and nothing to do with football)
with love (and nothing to do with football)
with love
with love – we will still pull through
with love – if this is all we do
with love – when it’s beyond control
with love – from in your heart and soul
with love – when they don’t understand
with love – we will still make our stand
with love – for every living thing
with love – amid this suffering
with love – and not just flippantly
with love – with love from you and me
with love-however far that seems
with love- we must preseve this dream
with love – that we might all be free
with love – whatever comes to be
with love -though we cannot believe
with love – all of that we perceive
with love- when they all turn away
with love-we will still have our say
with love – though we may feel so few
we will go on – if this is all we do
with love -for just another day
we will be strong – and go on anyway
with love
with love
with love
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in ‘light’ of all that has happened ..and far from a football poem…
i don’t mind being accused of keeping it light (hello Clik)we all have to do it it in our own way….i love this world…and with so much darkness-hatred and greed i can only express my feelings in my way…as you must all do in your way…long ago (as a child who never knew his dad)..i met him one day aged 15 for the first time.. to discover he was an intellectual ..highly political and radical beatnik artist and one of the original founder members of the CND movement who had spent his life fighting in that way for change..i guess it resulted in me fighting for freedom in a very different and un-political way….i don’t mind if no-one knows where i’m coming from …because it’s not about me it’s about us-this world and all that we try to do – to make it a better place to live in..football poetry is probably one of the most bizarre ways right now but it’s there…this site isn’t really there for the much more important stuff of life.. but t seeps through and like it or not i still expect a flood of poems about how futile football seems right now…crispin
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Welcome to Football Poets -- a club for all football poets, lovers of football and lovers of (alternative) poetry. Discover poets in every league from respected internationals at the top of their game to young hopefuls in the school playground.
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joe morris
29th March 2024
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28th March 2024
Crispin Thomas
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25th March 2024
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Mike Bartram
23rd March 2024
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21st March 2024
kevin halls
18th March 2024
Richard Williams
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18th March 2024
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19th March 2024 at 8:00 am
Hi Crispin. Chris Sutton on the radio has gone for a Chelsea v Coventry final. As we know anything can happen in the Cup, and I reckon we can go to the final.
We’re still in with a chance of the play offs too, so lots to go for.
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19th March 2024 at 7:41 am
Hey Kev
Let the masses drool over their odds on City v Unted Final, but who knows how pressure can hit.
Cov and Chels will be rightly labelled as having no chance..but hey …stranger things have happened..
so Chelsea v Coventry…that’s the Final for us!
Best
C
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29th January 2024 at 10:03 pm
Hi Crispin,
How are you doing mate? Yes, you’re probably right but hey football is all about emotion and passion and I just love writing about the game. I try to keep my poetry to a reasonable length but there’s so much to write about the game and its literature just lends itself naturally to poetry. Sometimes I just get completely carried and I do apologise for the length of my poetry but it’s a great thrill to be associated with Football Poets.
Cheers mate
Joe
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10th January 2024 at 7:52 pm
You’re right of course Joe but…..it’s actually more of a big welcome break for everyone who is not into Premier League ..I’m talking fans of EFL National League and below…..
Btw …is this actually your longest poem ever !?
Best
Crispin
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8th January 2024 at 4:45 pm
Thanks!
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8th January 2024 at 10:42 am
There’s something so evocative and nostalgic for football fans the world over, in ‘revisiting’ old lost grounds.
Occasionally some remnants remain, with perhaps part of a wall or part or a stand or thre shape of a terrace, but often they are only still there in faded images and in our heads..
Great stuff Graham
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4th January 2024 at 10:13 am
A great idea and well executed. Thanks Graham.
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19th November 2023 at 1:45 pm
Thanks Gacina, glad you liked it, and I have just posted a new one about our points deduction…
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7th November 2023 at 6:34 pm
Today B.B.C post on F.B was titled:Premier League reduced to 18 clubs? I really think it may be interesting to see if this would be Everton’s nightmare and this poem is well suited for this concern.If there would be more difficult battle to stay if there were 18 teams.Great poem and somehow true.
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6th November 2023 at 4:43 pm
Ashington FC have launched a £50,000 Crowdfunder appeal to meet the increased costs of winning promotion last season, to pay for urgent stadium improvements, travel costs and equipment
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