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Best Britannia Poems

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Britannia Waives the Rules
The British can not sip their tea
Where tea cups are no longer free
So Bojo proposes
Before a shop closes
Try bra cups temporarily...

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Categories: britannia, england, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Eu'Rage, Britannia Stage
Introduction..  An excerpt from a speech by Mr Keith Campbell 1969,  On the need of a referendum on joining the 'common market' the...

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Categories: britannia, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Cut
A country yearns industry
from assiduous minds revolutionary,
cities conceived with mind set and skill
yet lay insipid in the body of Britannia
those in need of life’s blood,
akin...

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Categories: britannia, inspirational, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member England - Gleaming In the Distance
across the Doggerland dogged people trudge
  Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
  hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
  the mighty maw of...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: britannia, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative
William Alexander Bustamante (From Pages)
Now let us forget foreign captains
And Conquistadores myth
That colors the morning exuberantly
With exotics wars and phony fathers
Like a fine lady strolling along a rotten street
I...

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Categories: britannia, history, people
Form: Free verse



Long Live Queen Elizabeth Ll
Long Live Queen Elizabeth II

Queen of England and realms of the Commonwealth,
she’s a symbol of grace and enduring strength.
God blessed Elizabeth with longevity,
intelligence, poise, and...

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Categories: britannia, england,
Form: Rhyme
Cup of Tea -A French Pantoum
Meet me by the sign
And we will have a cup of tea
Together talk of olden time
When Britannia ruled the sea

And we will have a cup...

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Categories: britannia, friendship,
Form: Pantoum
Roman Legion
Ignatius inspected his cohort
The unknown one and his men
He needed the best to fight for him
He needed the best to fight for them

Iduma stood tall,...

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Categories: britannia, adventure,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Whips of History - 2
Gentlemen,  behold, the wild yet curious Laurentia, an unexplored beauty,
Welcome to Utica, Latifundium Africanus Magnus
I am Titus, the overseer of this plantation wherein sweat...

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Categories: britannia, history, passion, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Great Little England
skinny island rump
  highway seas churning the horizon under turbulent skies
  entity England
  migration waves still grounding along the continental shelf
 ...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: britannia, culture, england, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Winston Churchill
In the foggy isle of Britannia, many men have sought
Out fortune and fame.
But one man's legacy remains, as steadfast as the walls
Of parliament, a single...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: britannia, character, courage, history, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Warlord Wars No More -2
Pay heed to those deeds from whence the heart must confess...
You're far from Rome Proconsul Caesar...
As they say, "All roads lead to Rome" Ariovistus
and all...

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Categories: britannia, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes Ii
   Unquotable quotes – II

Spare the rod and knife the wife.
Empty drums make the most deaf wise.
Penny wise Pound English.
The Polyester Stomper heals...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: britannia, cool, crazy, fantasy, funny,
Form: Epigram
Mongrels of Mischief: An Introduction Into Mischief Pt 1
It was somewhere in Cambridge, when the amalgam of substances 
began to cloud our judgment. 
The changes were between vague and blatantly obvious, but 
we...

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Categories: britannia, adventure, nonsense,
Form: Narrative
My Country
Oh to live on the land of great poets
Keats, Shelly, Wordsworth and Shakespeare plus more,
this land of bravery, tales of heroics
a land that's tranquil, seas...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: britannia, identity, london, poets,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things