Best Constable Poems

Constable


To pinpoint or to finger a Constable
Is treasonous and abominable
Dockets and summons may state:
‘Charged for subverting the State!’

Reorientation my men deserve
They know no longer who to serve.

They fast run with the swift hare
Sharing its calamities of the snare
Then hunt with the ravenous hound
Whose victims are...

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RIP Police Constable Keith Palmer 2017.
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author

Who shall we bury today?
Who has been taken away?
Not me yet I’m pleased to say.
So I can write these words today!

As we mourn loved ones lost.
Or friends we knew, in days gone past.
Lost to...

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trees
sunlight
             shadowed
streams
English
            through
            and through
from
memory
      ...

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a passion for nature
          wanderings concentrated
in a 
    singleness of purpose
in a
     passion for painting
of a
   parochial persuasion
relived
        again&again

a light-drenched...

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John Constable famed for his Haywain
later loved painting the wind&rain*
in many ways ahead of his time
&with which  conniseurs of art still chime


*https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/constable-cloud-study-n06065...

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CONSTABLE WEATHER EYE
displays
  of bravura vigorous
bracing
washed in tranquillity
 glistening
treasures
    of  celestial dramas
changeable climates
   blustery
exhilerating
  in
    white highlights

THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma...

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Maria was John Constable,love of his life
waiting seven years to make her his wife
Seven children she bore her dear John
sadly at 40 caught tb ,died & was gone

*pic of maria painted in her wedding year http://www.john-constable.net/portrait-of-maria-bicknell/...

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Suffolk's landscapeer John Constable
was both talented& able
His art 'eye salve' is a veritable treat
he called it more savoury than sweet

* judge for your self here. https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-constable/rainstorm-over-the-sea-1828...

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My next-door man was a postman
He stunted gimmicks like Tarzan 
I met a constable
And told him my trouble
He said, “I can’t treat your ailment”. 


Syllable count: 8, 8, 6, 6, 8 (I used howmanysyllbes.com to count syllables.)...

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