Tyne Pride
A Villanelle About A Ship For Poppy's Prompt #11
Introduction
The super-tanker, Tyne Pride, at Swan Hunter, in Wallsend, 1975. Photo taken by Tom Buist.
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To me, this has always been an incredible picture, taken fifteen years before I became an adopted Novocastrian. My eldest daughter Juliet lives in Wallsend and my youngest daughter Kirsty used to live there with her husband Mark.
It is also for Poppy's Prompt that you can read about and enter here:
Tyne Pride
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At The End Of Our Street, A Veil Of Steel Grey
That Was Once Just A Skeleton Girder Shell
It Was Built By The Shipwrights On The Slipway
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The Tyne Pride's Might Brought Night To Our Working Day
Our Horizon To Follow On The Morn Bell
At The End Of Our Street, A Veil Of Steel Grey
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Our Street Bathed In Light When Tyne Pride Sailed Away
To Be Laden With Oil Drawn From Sunken Wells
It Was Built By The Shipwrights On The Slipway
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But Now Long Time Gone Are Those Lost Halcyon Days
Maple Wooded Captain's Quarters Served So Well
At The End Of Our Street, A Veil Of Steel Grey
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That Wondrous Sight Has Forever Gone Away
Tyne Pride Not Forgotten, But Remembered Well
It Was Built By The Shipwrights On The Slipway
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The Tyne Pride's Last Journey Was To The Scapyard
A Tanker No Longer, It's Just Scrap Metal
At The End Of Our Street, A Veil Of Steel Grey
It Was Built By The Shipwrights On The Slipway
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