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Poems tagged ‘Bournemouth’

Wessex Hymn

Alex Saynor

Thursday, October 8th, 2026

We used to play football on winter fields
on ice which hardly melted all the day long
by arches strung at a right angle to the Thames.

We used to play all summer long, or just a day
with tourists in Alexandra Gardens
careful of flower beds to a degree

as when we played by decades of greetings cards
faded into a single blue in the summerhouse
of our grandparents’ house in Ferndown.

We used to play under the relief road
‘tunnel amusement’, kicking the ball to the roof
on a road made safe by concrete bollards.

We used to play as if our lives were somewhere else
waiting for us, and I suppose they were.
We once played in Hamworthy Rec

pretending our names were ‘Paxo’ and ‘Oxo’
and though you became a professional
that game was lost to laughter unrestrained,

a total eclipse of cool by Poole Harbour.
Those were the games and ‘those were the days’
is what of the unrecoverable is said

but with a thought to multitudinous future games
and a son’s requested sea shanty in the lounge
I hear the first Mercian hymn echoing
in Wessex, heed its end and ‘sing it again.’

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Cherries chopped as Reds extend record

Emdad Rahman

Saturday, December 7th, 2019

Nineteen minutes for the death knell
Three goals in a devastating spell
Ake’s subbing enhancing the flow
A blitz from the returning trio

With that came the winds of change
Oxlade-Chamberlain from close range
Ramsdale beaten with a volley of class
From Henderson’s pinpoint pass

Salah’s genius back heel despite the squeeze
Keita slotting home with ease
Paying back the Reds Egyptian star
Game over Mohamed Salah

07 12 19

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© emdad rahman

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