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Best Englishman Poems

Below are the all-time best Englishman poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of englishman poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member I Want Your Seeds
**"And his name was Jack"**

No one perceives what abides above the clouds. 
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs. 
I demand to see and feel...

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Categories: englishman, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Abc. Music Is My First Love
AC/DC, the rockers from down under
Boston, with Tom Scholz on guitar, sweet thunder

Creedence Clearwater, singing Proud Mary
Deep Purple, from the 70's, rocking and hairy

Eagles, easy...

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Categories: englishman, inspirational, music
Form: ABC
Premium Member Leap of Faith
Stood on the roof of the Empire State
Two American men and their new English mate
It’s true that a bourbon or two had been had
Perhaps that’s...

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Categories: englishman, america, hero, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Artemisia, Part 2 of 12
(It was 1860 when the English poet Robert Browning
stumbled upon an interesting artefact as he walked
through the city of Florence.  It was a file...

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Categories: englishman,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Love Is Truth-A Joy For Ever-
True love never dies it’s black and white in books
Love is not love that alters when finds alteration
Love stories are fantasies giving joy to the...

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Categories: englishman, joy, love, truth, ,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member Love Is Truth-A Joy For Ever-W
True love never dies it’s black and white in books
Love is not love that alters when  finds alteration
Love stories are fantasies giving joy to...

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Categories: englishman, beauty, joy, love, ,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Mark Halliday: Warriorpoet
Mark Halliday

Son of a California Englishman
And a small-town Utah Mormon.
In his youth, nothing extraordinary;
Later served in Europe as a missionary.
Pianist, marching flutist, then a Guitarist;
Enlisted...

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Categories: englishman, art, family, garden, life,
Form: Couplet
Henry Morgan the Privateer
Henry Morgan was an admiral of the Royal Navy
In his time, commissioned, but most found him crazy
Such that the Spanish called him a pirate rebellious
Whilst...

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Categories: englishman, betrayal, character, conflict, courage,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Mcgee's Fish-N'-Chips
An Englishman, just new in town
Walked the streets until he found
An older man sitting down
fishing from a puddle

His back against the old pub wall
His old...

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Categories: englishman, drink, fish, fishing, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Dad In Quotes
When playtime was over my tiny hands tediously picked up Tyco toys, a fistful of three at a time. "Atta girl," my dad would encourage....

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Categories: englishman, appreciation, bereavement, blessing, childhood,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Lincoln County War
Billy the Kid was living an honest life as a ranch hand.
He was employed by John Tunstall, an immigrant Englishman.
Mr Tunstall gave Billy his own...

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Categories: englishman, history,
Form: Rhyme
The Great Divide
Our ancestors roamed ‘cross the seas
way long before my time
and conquered lands so strange to us,
but ever so divine.

But since they crossed that salty pond
they’ve...

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Categories: englishman, conflict, language, places, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Tall Tales
Surely, Sherlock was rooted in the home.
But his ruby slippers
Had worn-out souls
So the jaded detective
Followed Fitzgerald and the lost generation.
But somewhere in between chapters
And the...

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Categories: englishman, books, language, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When a Man Love a Woman
A man living in Tobago 
but he was born in Trinidad 
he loves his next door neighbor 
this is his story it might be funny...

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Categories: englishman, life, loneliness, lonely, longing,
Form: Light Verse
Live To Work
In England men just live to work
grab pleasure when they can,
it’s working that controls the life
of every Englishman.

The English should take lessons
on the reason for...

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Categories: englishman, family, time, work,
Form: Rhyme

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