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Best London Poems

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London
London

The tour of London begins
 In the streets of my mind,
  Through past and present
   Intrinsically entwined,
    Through people...

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Categories: london,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member London Town: Brick Lane
graffiti stares
and retro drips
beneath the shoreditch sky

like those who watch
 - between their sips
the world and us go by....

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Categories: england, flying, london,
Form: Rhyme
The City and the State of Play Today
THE CITY AND THE STATE OF PLAY TODAY

No one worries about morals today 
They follow the rules they create
So to them all is ok
Those on...

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Categories: london, business, community, corruption, international,
Form: Free verse
Jimi Hendrix
Electric poems reverberated,
Within the walls of a London abode.
A psychedelic haze fueled the gift,
That a creative heart was bestowed.

Far from his broomstick days,
Passionate strums…electrified the...

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Categories: historyheart, heart, london,
Form: Quatrain
Give Me Your Hand....
Let me take you to Venice
passing through the canals
all the alleys and valleys
gondolieurs,souvenirs,
saying cheers,drinking wine 
whilst we dine,full moon  
lanternes lightning sweet Venice,
its the...

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Categories: london, lovedance, me, sweet, home,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Wonderland I: Prologue
The west winds of springtime
Brought forth April showers
That rained on the pavements
Of Southwick for hours.

It was standing room only
And full to the brim
As people sought...

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Categories: character, literature, london,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Tale of Two Cities - Life Lesson
How thrilling was a novel long ago
I read for school: A Tale of Two Cities.
It tells of common people whose great woe
comes from the upper...

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Categories: london, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Brain Station
It resembles the London Underground inside my messed up mind 
With a network of confusion 
And Tracks that twist and Wind 

Tunnels full of darkness...

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Categories: london, anxiety, confusion, depression, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Lone Londoner
I look at this wonder, 
This art, 
The landscape behind her blushes, 
Lone Londoner, 
She defeats my love, 
Trumps my harmony, 
Warms my blood, 
She...

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Categories: london,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost In Britain and NEW!! Lost In The USA
LOST IN BRITAIN

Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop, 
Matching Tye and Droop

Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown, 
Westward Ho! and Throop.

Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghead, Frome, Cat's Ash

North Piddle, Staines...

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Categories: london, america, england, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Wimpole Street, Part 4 of 7
(Sir Frederick Treves, Victorian surgeon, has the
following claims to our respect: (1) he discovered
and cared for Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man":
(2) He followed the route...

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Categories: london,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member The Runaway
Lucy went to London
She couldn't stay at home 
She was a crazy mixed up kid
She felt lost and so alone

When Lucy got to London
The streets...

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Categories: girl, innocence, london, sad,
Form: Lyric
Within These Abandoned Stone Abbey Walls
Within these abandoned stone abbey walls
An old coffin can be seen on the site—
And strange sounds from the creatures of the night
Are heard echoing through...

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Categories: england, halloween, london, night,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Full English Breakfast
Toast and jam
Sausage, ham

Cap mushrooms
Red legumes

Tomatoes
Potatoes 

Eggs to try
Poach or fry

Breakfast tea
All for me

Tummy full
Last mouthful 

Happy tum
Yum, yum, yum!

Day dismal
Pink bismol...

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Categories: food, london,
Form: Rhyme
Great Britain
Government
Royal family, regal, royalties,
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are part of GB, Europe
Army, Air force, and Naval support
Treasures, tutoring, training

Buildings and gardens of significance
Rivers, rail...

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Categories: england, international, london, world,
Form: Acrostic

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