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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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
Comments (9)
A beautiful poem for Poppyβs Promptsβ¦ I feel sorry for the grand old shipβs demise π₯Ή.
What a great story poem that shares many memories. Good work.
Amazing poem and history!
Nice meditation on a fantastic photo. Are you familiar with Chris Killip's work? Some great images of Wallsend in the 70s. He had a retrospective at the Baltic about 18 months ago.
This was a beautiful take on the prompts. Loved your poem!
There is something majestic about an ocean ship Well done Mike
'A Veil Of Steel Grey' is an awesome phrase!
Nice poem. I love the flow of it.
Lovely villanelle. Me think of the ships that dock in the shipyards around where I live. majestic!