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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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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31st October 2023 at 4:26 pm
‘Three Teams Worse Than Us’ from our Toffee friend Denys in Italy, also sums up how FGR fans currently feel. Yes, in our case, with two going down to the Conference, it could be entitled ‘Two Teams Worse Than Us’, but three would make us feel even safer.
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6th October 2023 at 11:49 pm
Enjoy it while you can, although I’m sure Mbappe could well be bound for St James
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2nd October 2023 at 1:52 pm
There still remains a magic about the early rounds of the FA Cup that the premier league / internationals can never match.
Coventry Sphinx v Leicester Nirvana sounds so much more than a tale of two cities etc. etc.
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24th September 2023 at 5:14 pm
Very accurate indeed!
Palace home for me is always a tough journey as well. From the wilds of west London to Selhurst is a random journey into the unknown.
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20th September 2023 at 1:37 pm
Lovely stuff for one of the best.
We love him to death down at the Palace.
I’ll post my Roy poem a bit later. You’ve inspired me to finish it.
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19th September 2023 at 5:06 pm
I’d like to think some of my scarves might get passed down the generations, but can’t see some of the “quality merchandise” I have making much past my son’s generation. They’ll fall apart before he even has kids, I reckon!
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7th September 2023 at 2:43 pm
Very true Crispin. Thanks!
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