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CLERIHEW tennyson

...Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson
with tetrameter(ABBA) had much fun
Gifted with wordplay he was blest
'In Memorium' at his best...

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The Essence Of Song

...A poet is a musician 
The instrument he/she plays are words
The heart of a musician is the essence of song 
So when Lord Alfred Tennyson defined
Poetry as “the rhythmical creation of beauty”
He ...

Categories: alfred tennyson, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

Lord Alfred Tennyson

...Clairibel
Mariana
Timbuktu
Lord Alfred Tennyson
poet loved by my favorite poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
charge of the light brigade
my husband’s favorite poem
“theirs is not to reason why”...

Categories: alfred tennyson, write,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Love's Peat Fire

...
“‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” —Lord, Alfred Tennyson


love at first sight at the ceilidh
dancing 'round peat fires gayly
lad and lass equally ...

Categories: alfred tennyson, dance, fire, heartbreak, love,
Form: Rhyme

Clerihew Tennyson

...Alfred Tennyson was created a Lord
but his poetry ever strikes a chord
He suffered an emotional blow
when fellow poet-rebel.Hallam was laid low...

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The Poet of No Regret

...Now another bird. My poem for those who, in a period of uprisings or vice, and want to depart with light heart and cheer.

Nymphea and Hymen! I see the tree of Hymen gleaming in the night, my heart...

Categories: alfred tennyson, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Silver Wheels

...So you return on silver wheels,
and the wheels are faster
than I remember them.

What memories you bring,
what joy,
what heartache, Brenda.

I had forgotten you 'til now,
but sil...

Categories: alfred tennyson, absence,
Form: Light Verse

'wild Bells and Blue Sky"

...Off with the old, and on with the new,
  Hopefully good ambitions all pursue,
  Salute Lord Tennyson do or die!
Ring out wild bells, to the wild sky...

I will read my Alfred Tennyson,
  Meanwh...

Categories: alfred tennyson, funnyold, old, sky,
Form: Kyrielle

Bloody Muddy Monday (With Apologies To Rudyard Kipling & Alfred Tennyson)

...Assailed upon all sides; trapped, like a rat without his cheese.
Though I wore quite fancy shoes, there were no socks upon my feet,
When I fought the heathens and, met defeat, at the Pillar Of Muha...

Categories: alfred tennyson, parodywar, war,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

' Lord Alfred Tennyson ...' (Classical-Tribute) 62nd Senryu

...‘ Lord Alfred Tennyson … ’ (Classical-Tribute)  62nd  Senryu



       Tennyson Thundered
‘ The Charge Of The Light Brigade ’
      Salutes … Six-Hundred...

Categories: alfred tennyson, adventure, dedication, children, history,
Form: Senryu

The Charge of the Heavy Mob

...Half price sale, half price sale’
Half price sale today.
Into the town centre on a bus 
Rode those to be plundered.
Forward the crowd as it swayed
“Charge on your card! The cry
Into the town ce...

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Form: Ballad