Best Balmoral Poems
Romance In the Time of Crawling
"Romance in the Time of Crawling"
We wait in hibernation
for the great release
into a 2nd coming maybe
a 3rd, a 4th, a 5th
it’s a joyful death
the pain on entry
where oceans break
the certainty of all
that is shore
the harbour opens
we sail forward
through bloody waters
into a...
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Categories:
balmoral, muse, passion, romance,
Form:
Narrative
R I P Queen Elizabeth the Secondserved her people well
seventy years on the throne
now gone to her rest
Written 8th September 2022
R. I. P Queen Elizabeth who passed away this afternoon at Balmoral in Scotland.
Prince Charles will now become King Charles the 3rd of England...
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Categories:
balmoral, england,
Form:
Senryu
Skirl of the PiperThere was an awful caterwailing and clamour
as the pipes filled up with air and swirled
today it was for an orange march
playing the protestain songs of inflamitary verse.
Many were the songs and events the piper was called to skirl
one day it would be dirges the...
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Categories:
balmoral, celebration, life, music, song,
Form:
Verse
The Queen of EnglandQueen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022
...
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Categories:
balmoral, appreciation, celebration, death, grief,
Form:
Clerihew
Ode To An Heroic Trio: a Contra DictionHear Me, O Muse, no moos or cluckings, muckings or horns of fog
Do sound the clamoring claxons of the bardics that be written by William McGonagal o’ the Bog,
That Laird of Lamentations Disastrous, that Scot Wha’ Hey Nonny Nonny,
Laureate of the quite awful woeful grueful...
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Categories:
balmoral, hero, hyperbole, nonsense, satire,
Form:
Light Verse
Tropic of Cancer
"Tropic of Cancer"
Follow the silent trail
words like stars shine
coded on straight lines
blind to all
like diamonds
they are invisible
the keys
written and held
Winter stars puzzle the sky
Northward a cold frontier
waits beckoning
Capricorn’s Summer's dream
Escape Hell South
Where Heaven is a blue sky
golden beach purgatory
littered with...
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Categories:
balmoral, freedom, future, life,
Form:
Free verse
Searching For the FactsResearching generally finds the truth
Not accepting the common belief
Or buying into those conspiracy theories
Knowing the facts brings much relief.
The queen did not die in Detroit, my friend,
Despite the reports on the internet,
She succumbed in Scotland at Balmoral
A fact the world should never forget.
I am amazed...
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Categories:
balmoral, integrity, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Intermission Break: the Flow
"The Flow"
I walked into the Ocean today
the Wind was wild whipping up the waves
like lemonade white horses riding into shore
I tread water, the Aquamarine was a washing machine
While someone else’s kids raced by me out to the break
the wind bit my face, I submerged...
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Categories:
balmoral, freedom, home, love,
Form:
Free verse
Just NowThe tributes keep pouring in and my heart is singing a wonderful hymn
The lines are getting longer and the passions are getting stronger
They stormed the streets in a hundred thousand throng; people of all color and creed, husbands and wives holding hands and little...
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Categories:
balmoral, absence, africa, allusion, america,
Form:
Narrative
Debs RattleAcrotic?
Bored, I got sunburnt,
Evidently, I learnt,
Across the road ,
Cantered cane toads,
Henry thought it’s fine,
Bull mastiff Jerry Hog's,
Laugh's at every bodies dogs,
A growling all the time .
No body wore their togs,
Kangaroos were banned,
Elisa sat and did count frogs,
Too hot the ladies fanned,
But later on the...
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Categories:
balmoral, adventuredog, dog, time,
Form:
Acrostic
A Royal LuncheonKing size prawn cocktail hors d'oeuvre
Duchesse potatoes
Crown roasted ribs of mutton
Balmoral tarlets
Mint imperials
Bourbon bakes
Sheik!...
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Categories:
balmoral, food
Form:
Epulaeryu
Queen Elizabeth, Now In Heaven's GreenIn the green graced Castle of Balmoral
After she saw Platinum roads and walls
The Queen passed away without a quarrel
Queen of the land where the sun never falls
Now the sun will free her with our prayer calls
Under the rainbow of colours...
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Categories:
balmoral, appreciation, celebrity, death, memorial,
Form:
Dizain
The First DayIn seventy four we were just lads
They lined us up
In front of the Drill Hall
All a bit strange to us
Some parents too who looked so proud
The courses marched past
Then someone spoke and instructors bellowed
The squads doubled around the parade ground
The parents all laughed and...
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Categories:
balmoral, education, parents,
Form:
Ballad
ANOTHER RAID
Oh no, there go the sirens,
They’re over’ead again.
Take the kids to the shelter, Ma.
That ‘itler’s a bloomin’ pain.
Night after night for eight months.
When will it ever end?
There can’t be much left to bomb now.
It’s drivin’ us round the bend.
But, of course we’ll never surrender;
We’re British...
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Categories:
balmoral, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Queen of united kingdomThe queen Elizabeth was born in April nineteen twenty six
she grew up with her corgis and taught them lots of tricks.
She was first born child at Balmoral Castle,
born to the Duchess of York without any hassle.
She didn't go to school she was always taught at...
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Categories:
balmoral, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme