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Poems tagged ‘Everton’

Too Few Blues haiku

Dachlan Cartwright

Sunday, June 10th, 2018

Argie Geordie Viking
Funes Pickford Sigurdsson
Silvery Brandstanding

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Big Sam Allardyce’ Blue and White Army

Denys E. W. Jones

Monday, December 4th, 2017

We’re the Mersey Madmen,
We’re seriously insane,
‘Cos we support the Boys in Blue,
We’ve only half a brain.

Were we endowed with any sense,
We’d follow Liverpool,
But we’re consigned to Everton
By Destiny so cruel.

Tradition? No lack of it!
Ambition? Reams and reams!
Our name? To us no other name
Could ever sound as sweet!

The teams we do not like include
Lyon and Atalanta.
On their account these past few days
We’ve endured so much banter.

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum –
Right now this boast rings hollow.
But nonetheless the Toffeemen
We shall not cease to follow.

We’re glory-hungry Velites
From the sluggish Mersey’s marge,
And the only way for us is up
Now that Big Sam is in charge.

4/12/17
Denys E. W. Jones

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The People’s Cubs

Dachlan Cartwright

Thursday, November 9th, 2017

Jordan Pickford can do it all
Can become a legend like Neville Southall

Johnjoe Kenny can grab some fame as
Apprentice to our passionate pounding Seamus

Mason Holgate gets illumination cash-free
From rubbing shoulders with Jags and Ashley

Michael Keane can add his name
To Roy and Robbie in the hall of fame

Morgan Feeney’s heritage is Moore than handy
Bootling up the river to the Dock of Bramley

Benny Baningime’s from another great river
Thrown against the Lions and making tackles all a-quiver

Tom Davies with his hair and rolled-down socks
Energizing future captain in our energized cauldron dock?

Dominic Calvert-Lewin, that masked man, who?
Getting heaps of kemo sabes from Dixie to Lukaku

Ademola Lookman, jinxing angel with two wings
Look, man, you lively lads are future Dixie’s kings!

Hey David Henen will you get your chance?
And whatever happened to Shari Tarasaj?

What about other loanees, Galloway and Browning, On-
-Yeku and Connolly, Keiran Dowell and Pennington?

And we need Luke Garbutt backing Bainesy’s Wonderwall
With mod crossover music, from Wigan’s northern soul

And come on Ross Barkley, in your heart you know it’s true
It’s not about the money, it’s the diamond that is you!

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The past remembered

Gacina Bozidar

Saturday, April 11th, 2015

I watched a thousand times
the elegant DUCHESS of YORK
smiling in the ROYAL BOX

This is from the year 1933
when one man was a goalscoring machine

The ROYAL STANDARD
at the towers of WEMBLEY

LIME STREET STATION
full of Liverpool people
waiting for Dixie and the lads

WITHOUT the sad War a few years
later, Everton would be the
champions somewhere
in the early 1940’s

But many brave people
had to defend the land
of football
that we can now remember

The football games played
since the war ended
and that EVERTON could
win the the League title in 1963
and again the Cup in 1966
and also the League title
in 1970
and to lift FA Cup in 1984
and to be
the champions in 1985
and in 1987 indeed

It is not clear what football will
be like later in this century

But in 1915, 100 YEARS ago,
EVERTON were the champions!

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