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Premium Member 10 Downing Street
10 DOWNING STREET

Six years ago on 10 Downing Street,
Tourists by the score we did meet,
Fascinated by the pomp and splendor
England’s Political leader, in his famous...

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Categories: downing street, love,
Form: Free verse



In Which Boris Takes Pmqs In the Toilet At Downing Street
It's nearly time for PMQs
Said Boris, and I've blocked the bog
With one of my enormous poos
It's nearly time for PMQ's
It's hard to verbally abuse
The opposition...

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Categories: downing street, angst, celebrity, england, natural
Form: Triolet
Downing Street
driving down downtown
  rain dots dancing
                  ...

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Categories: downing street, life, places, political, social,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member 10 Downing Street London



                   10 DOWNING STREET


   ...

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Categories: downing street, celebration, england, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dream Party At Number 10
In my dreams
like many have dreams,
I went to number 10 Drowning Street.
in this pandemic, isolation to cheat,
there is no other better place 
to meet, greet,...

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Categories: downing street, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



A Tribute To Our Soldiers
Fare thee well our precious men and boys
Marching into war
Fighting for a purpose
Does anyone know what for

As some you return lying down
Instead of tall and...

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Categories: downing street, angst, anxiety, dedication, education,
Form: Rhyme
Ten
The French call it "dix" - the Romans used X
The number of lords that are leaping Xmas
The total of fingers and thumbs on both hands
The...

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Categories: downing street, funny, humor, humorous, math,
Form: Verse
Premium Member London Lament
I had to sit through it all
the conversation that was inevitable
What they did
Where they went
What they saw...
My brother and his wife
On the their expensive trip...

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Categories: downing street, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member 1984 In London Alone
There I was on overnight sleeper
catching the Kilmarnock-Euston train
didn't sleep much on the way
hit the capital 6.30am met the rain

I was there for a week...

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Categories: downing street, life, london, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All These and I Today Are One
ALL THESE    AND I    TODAY    ARE ONE

All these    and I   ...

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Categories: downing street, childhood, today, drug,
Form: Free verse
George Osbornes Speech At the Conservative Party Conference 2015
George Osborne’s Speech at the Conservative Party Conference 2015

Yesterday, on the 5th of October, Chancellor George Osborne said,
He was gonna give devolved powers to local...

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Categories: downing street, community, jobs, leadership, money,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Jarrow Crusaders
They were strong men of steel
In flat caps and hobnail boots,
hunger pains all they could feel
dressed in Sunday best suits,

poor diet of potato and marrow...

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Categories: downing street, betrayal, character, class, community,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dual Heritage
I am a descendant of Greece and the
Greeks,
We say hello and goodbye by kissing
Both cheeks,
But I also descend from the British,
For my father was very,...

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Categories: downing street, life, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Butterfly
She was just 8 years old
With freckles on her face
She was a little tom boy
Playing miles from the U.S base

Her name was parwana
 Means butterfly...

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Categories: downing street, childhood, confusion, daughter, death,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Cock-A-Doodle-Dont
So, would you tell me Sir, what can’t a labradoodle do
You’ll never hear a labradoodle Cock-a-doodle-do
Neither will a wallaby or skippy kangaroo 
Nor anything not...

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Categories: downing street, humorous, political,
Form: Rhyme

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