'There Are No Zoos in Dunfermline' - an Alphabet Poem
Updated: Sep 19, 2019
You can write a poem by starting each line with a letter of the alphabet, in alphabetical order, as Alex demonstrates - using Dunfermline as his subject:
There Are No Zoos in Dunfermline
Aberdour Road’s not far away from here
Bellyeoman Road is where my doctor is
Canmore Street has the Alhambra and PJ’s
Duncan Crescent’s in the heart of Abbeyview
Eden Road is not far from there too
Foundry Street is where you’ll find the Job Centre
Garvock Hill …looks onto East End Park…
Hallbeath Road will take you to Fife College
I lived in Gillie Court that’s in ‘Brucefield’
James Street’s near the Kingsgate Shopping Centre…
Kirkgate has the Abbey on the left…Glen on the right
Lovers Loan is near Milton Green
Monastery Street has the war memorials south of the Abbey
Nethertown Broad Street has the Dunfermline Chess Club
Old Mill Court Yard looks on to the Rex Park
Pilmuir Street has the Carnegie Leisure Centre
Queen Anne Street had the Post office
Rose Street is second left up Townhill Road
Sandpiper Drive winds up Duloch’s eastern flank
Thistle Street third left up Townhill Road
Upper Mill Street’s south of the sorting office
Victoria Terrace near Headwell
Winterthur Lane winds past Bruce Street onto Mill Street
X marks the spot where…
York Place is…near the top of Paton Street…there are no
Zoos in Dunfermline Alexander Shand Hudson

Here is more of Alex's work:
A DAY AT THE FRINGE
While walking down the Royal Mile…
I played guitar and sang
To the walkers and the talkers
N listeners, trying to make a breakthrough
In buskers west alcove of Saint Giles Cathedral
I played and sang ‘Pub With No Beer’
A man put a coin in my hat
Cameras lights action…movies
Fringe festival takes to the streets
And alley ways of the High Street
The Mercat, Parliament square
Saw Japanese kung Fu artist there
Met Gerard there too my friend from
Long ago…took photo O me, put it
Up on Facebook…I shook hands with
Him and carried on singing…’No Hassles’
‘Walking The Plank’ filled the airwaves…
For a while and then the crowds got bigger…
‘All Along The Watchtower’…
I sang that one n all…
This festival's amazing…can’t get enough
I’ll go in with my guns a blazing
Tomorrows on my mind…
Who Knows what I will find.
