joe morris
Hi everybody. My name is Joe Morris and I’ve just made my first attempts at writing poetry generally but I have now written a couple of football poems for your delectation. I support West Ham but hey we’re an endangered species. LOL. I write for pleasure now since I’m now retired on mental health grounds owing to a breakdown in 2012. My wonderfully loving and supportive family are my rock and inspiration. I like to think of myself as humble, very descriptive in my writing and forward thinking. Here are some of my poems.
Football – on the horizon once more
Like the passing of the seasons
Football, like the clock on the wall
Ticking towards the passions of the
Teeming terraces, the fans return to
Their natural place in the scheme of
Things, wending their way, traipsing
Towards those timeless turnstiles
Heaving with hope, sun lit tunnels
At the other end of August to May
Refrain of old, collective chants and new
chanting the melodies that uncle and
Dad once intoned through cloth capped caps
Then mum once offered her knitted hats
Days when rattles and rosettes flashed
With transient pleasure then contorted
Faces of weather beaten defeat, oh the loss
But then the sudden transition to victory
On Cup Final day, the culmination of it all
But on this Saturday, Sunday and Monday
The random nature of times,
Dates, any chronological order who
Cares, play the Beautiful Game
At midnight and don’t wake up the
Neighbours because the supporters
Will embrace the hour yet again
In the first grievances of the world
Swirl when people bristle at the
Injustices groaning at ongoing
Discomfort on the theatrical stages
Of life, but hey we’ll always have
Football at any time of your choosing
The green carpet of August
Hostilities, then the millionaires
of football’s monied classes
Preside from on high while
Those below flourish their scarves
Cheering under the canopy
Huddled together, cold, warm,
The Bovril masses gathered, the sound
Of those who may never be quiet
For a single moment, bound
Together by vested interests
The fusion of blood ties, wit
And humour wandering through
Our fevered thoughts for
We were biased, devoted
To forlorn causes, relegation
And promotion, goals that
Lighten our moods
Because we were there,
Bitten fingernails to the
Bitter end, timeless and priceless
This is our time to win the League
Now or never time frames
Hopefully savouring the wine
Of triumphant times
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Poems by joe morris
- Happy Birthday Sir Trevor Brooking
- West Ham walloped again
- A busy night in Europe.
- UEFA Nations League?
- Today’s the day war broke out
- The great Svengali
- Happy Birthday Match of the Day
- New season.
- It was 5O years ago
- Hammers in America
- You can hear and see the new season
- The Claret and Blue land
- The lull before the storm
- Farewell Gareth Southgate
- The final word from Berlin
- England- your country needs you
- Friday in the Mediterranean
- It was worth it in the end
- On the eve of the big match
- How much more can we take?
- Politics and football
- So close to the exit gate
- It’s now or never
- England, oh England
- Farewell, Scotland
- Oh England, what happened there?
- Turkey, Georgia, Portugal and Czech Republic
- Netherlands, Poland, Denmark and Slovenia, England and Serbia
- Switzerland, Spain and Italy
- Scotland, brave but battered
- Come on England.
- Real Madrid- Champions League winners again
- Manchester United win the FA Cup
- VAR on the grapevine
- The penultimate weekend
- Farewell David Moyes
- Cesar Luis Menotti- a tribute
- The Tractor Boys are back
- Klopp’s Liverpool held by happy Hammers
- FA Cup replays no more
- Farewell Europe, England
- Germany calling
- Joe Kinnear- a tribute
- Oh woe West Ham!
- The top three battle it out
- England – Brazil
- Not another repeat FA Cup Final
- Down to the last four
- Germany again
- The business end
- Oh for days of yore
- Stan Bowles- a tribute
- An old friend
- Prescot Cables FC
- The Championship title race
- Jurgen Klopp- the leader of the pack
- Back from Far East ports
- Football goes into hiding
- FA Cup third round day
- Celtic play Rangers
- Boxing Day fun and games
- Just days to Christmas
- Exhausted West Ham
- Oh what a massacre.
- Euro 2024- the draw
- Claret and blue triumph again
- Terry Venables
- Spare a thought
- England against Malta
- Manchester City
- It was raining goals today
- FA Cup first round day.
- Hammers beat the Gooners
- Eric Cantona- singer supreme
- Spurs – top of the Premier League surely not
- Sir Bobby Charlton – obituary.
- Italian job done
- England beat the Aussies
- Euro 2028
- Premier League round up.
- Francis Lee- an obituary
- The FA Cup in September
- Hammers against Gunners.
- Hammers in Europe again
- Roy Hodgson
- Woe United
- Business as usual
- Scotland- England
- Domestic football downs its tools
- Top of the Premier League albeit briefly
- Transfer deadline day
- Erling Haaland
- Hammers are top of the Premier League
- West Ham- early doors
- Spain reign on the plains
- The Women’s World Cup Final
- Parky
- Citizen Kane
- Ward Prowse, Alvarez and Maguire
- Days to go
- Load more
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13th September 2024 at 6:14 pm
Welcome to Football Poets Beth
Great evocative poem Beth….
More please !
Haiku always welcome.
Hope we (FGR) get to play you again soon
Best
Crispin
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26th July 2024 at 6:25 pm
Great poem Mike Bartram. Eddie was a legend, affectionately known in Liverpool as, “the first hooligan.” Even the hoolies were well dressed in those days. The amazing thing was he was only 26 when that picture was taken. He’d played for Everton youth team and was well known to the players. He never got arrested. They threw him out and he climbed back in, just in time for Derek Temples winner.
I used the picture of him being tackled to the ground on the front cover of my book, “Once Upon a rhyme in Football.” It’s worth looking on youtube and finding the re-enactment of the Wembley scene. Frank Skinner and Baddiel went around to Eddies home in the 1990’s and acted it out on the green outside. It’s hilarious, especially all the effort they put in to get Eddie sober enough to shoot the scene.
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10th July 2024 at 6:07 pm
Hi Crispin,
I don’t know if you’ve see the picture in social media today…
a picture of a teenage Lionel Messi cradling a baby in Africa as part of a photoshoot…. the family had won a lottery to have their baby pictured with him….
the photographer has just revealed that the baby is actually in fact Lamine Yamal!!!!
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26th May 2024 at 2:30 pm
Hi Denys…
Re Man City:
OK it was 20 years ago but Criag Wilson did write this and a few others on them back in 04/05.
BTW I’m more Forest Green Rover since 2014 (and Chelsea) these days . I drum and am a standing season ticket holder .
Best
Crispin
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29th April 2024 at 2:47 pm
Hi Denys,
Yes Richard Williams you’re a brilliant wordsmith, my friend. When I first saw your football poetry I thought it was the superb Guardian sports and music writer. I once had the honour of sitting next to Richard Williams while at the Independent on the sports desk. He writes about music and sport with immense knowledge and authority. I’ve read a couple of Richard’s books recently. Great writer rather like you Richard Williams the Pompey fan. Congratulations on promotion.
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28th April 2024 at 5:59 pm
Thanks Denys. Yes your replay poem was superb.
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26th April 2024 at 4:46 pm
Nice work, Joe. You were quick off the mark with that! Good one from Richard Williams too I see.
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25th April 2024 at 7:33 pm
Hi Denys,
Thanks mate. I’ll do it now.
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25th April 2024 at 1:56 pm
Thanks Joe,
you might like to write a poem yourself on the same subject…
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23rd April 2024 at 4:03 pm
Hi Denys
With you all the way on the abolition of FA Cup replays. What are they doing to the game?
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