another liverpool poet

SAFE HARBOUR, SAFE STEERSMAN

anotherliverpoolpoet — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:10:50 +0000

Unnumbered boys regarding me But glad said they that I had come Their swaying souls were safe said they For Christ had steered them home.

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THE VOICE THAT SPOKE TO ME

anotherliverpoolpoet — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:09:32 +0000

For I am sailing these fierce Arctic seas Berth place for three thousand men I shout to wake them, if they please To come back home with me again. Imagine I could make them wake To make them come with me Undrench their eyes for Heaven’s sake And heed them lively to my plea. Imagine I could make them dream Of life beyond this sickened sea Where salty bones […]

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FACES OF THE VERY YOUNG

anotherliverpoolpoet — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:08:17 +0000

It’s not the deaths of old men That cuts me to the quick It’s not the surge of the blooded sea That grieves me, makes me sick But faces of the very young That surface and then sink down And sink down deep where I cannot see Where I cannot see them drown.

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D-Day Outlier Poems

anotherliverpoolpoet — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:04:08 +0000

THINKING YOU’RE NEAR In the lap of the waves I hear your voice On the incoming breeze I feel your fear In the holidaying children I weep for your loss With the passage of years Betrayal has snared us Yet set fair in my heart Unforgotten. ON THE BEACH I HEAR YOU CALLING While on […]

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D – Day

anotherliverpoolpoet — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:38:17 +0000

D – D A Y TUESDAY, 6TH JUNE 1944 THE FALLEN BOYS HAVE GONE ASTRAY This pulsing boy A corpse Within a splintered second His tensioned grip His sweating tremble His prayerful pleas All gone. All gone This shattered self Now just A floating hindrance For other souls of Other desperate boys Not yet corpses […]

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BRANDY, PRINCE OF CATS

anotherliverpoolpoet — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:11:18 +0000

After being left to my own devices Making marmalade with gorgeous spices I’m pulling on my silver trews And lacing up my pointy shoes Then off to a castle in my flying car And find the bright, spotty door ajar Leaping slippery steps up slanty decks Past anchors hauled from ancient wrecks And meet again […]

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THE FALL OF A SENTINEL

anotherliverpoolpoet — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 17:57:33 +0000

Heavens above! We come upon you So utterly Destroyed. Truly splintered Ribs and arms Splayed akimbo By outrageous power. What thought you, Whispering tree, So torn apart And hideous? We gently touch Your pines Your cones Now sleeping. And what has been Is now not so, No longer Swaying, sighing. Why solely you Amid […]

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4:10am AND SLEEPLESS

anotherliverpoolpoet — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:30:25 +0000

Who Out there Shares This time With me? 4:10am In the black Suspension Where counts My heart. Peopled by Surging shards Of troubling voices, Agitating this  Indignant me. She, sleeping As I, driven And pestered by an Inconvenience Of frowning memory. Pinched by failure By duties missed, My mouth protesting Wordlessly. […]

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LE JOUR DE NOTRE MARIAGE

anotherliverpoolpoet — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:44:51 +0000

UN SONNET POUR L’AMOUR Je te conjure, mon mari, D’être gentil avec moi Et je te conjure, ma femme, D’être affectueuse avec moi Traverse la vie avec moi et ne me quitte jamais Garde-moi, ton amour, auprès de toi Je serai avec toi pour toujours Nous avons traversé des plages […]

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THIS ‘ERE TREE AND WE

anotherliverpoolpoet — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:59:05 +0000

This ‘ere tree Fascinates me. In shape divine By the railway line. Balance complete At thirty feet. Something true Just like you. Nature’s designer Brings little finer. This neat symmetry Sets a mind free. Sense you we, Entrancing tree?

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