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Best The Commonwealth Poems

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The Commonwealth Games
You're going to be amazed here
comes the commonwealth games.

professional athletes putting on the 
finest displays, what breath-taking 
arrays of the fittest and the brave
 
We...

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© Andy Craig  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: the commonwealth, devotion, games, inspirational, passion,
Form: I do not know?



Oh Virginia
Oh! Virginia

Come travel back with me to Old Virginia 
The namesake of Elizabeth: the Queen
No other state possesses such charisma...
Oh! Mother, of this nation... evergreen....

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Categories: the commonwealth, home, symbolism,
Form: Sonnet
Societies Shame
Societies Shame
02/09/2018


Toothless grin implores
Pleading eyes so pained
People passing ignore
Beggar should be ashamed

Compassionless society
Lazy get a job
Regardless of sobriety
People lose all hope

Victim of circumstance
Job loss, mental...

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Categories: the commonwealth, community, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Boo Hoo Politics
(Boo Hoo Politics was Written following the Brexit and Trump
votes as an observation and not a political declaration.
A few years out of date now but...

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Categories: the commonwealth, america, political, usa,
Form: Rhyme
An Affirmation
An Affirmation is that you say to improve your health today.

It’s a prayer and potent, because you are willing something to happen.
The seek and you...

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Categories: the commonwealth, adventure, prayer, prayer,
Form: Ballade



Premium Member Money
Quote By Poet "Money like honey is sweet to taste but money can sting you."

If money was the way
we would be happy everyday
then why are...

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Categories: the commonwealth, blue, food, happy, health,
Form: Rubaiyat
An Uppercut I Remember
Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already...

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Categories: the commonwealth, father son,
Form: Blank 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: the commonwealth, england,
Form: Rhyme
Pray For Peace But Live For War
Man Prays for Peace but Lives for War

Mankind dreams of peaceful life
Of days of sun, of minute strife
His prayers for peace though seem to me...

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Categories: the commonwealth, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bleeding Before Rome -1
The bombers began to bleed
their heavy tears of death
from 20,000 feet above the breathless battlefield, 
B-17 Flying Fortress formations
moving with apocalyptic aplomb
the shadows of high...

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Categories: the commonwealth, culture, heart, war, world
Form: Epic
My Parents Were Illegal Immigrants In the United States
In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a...

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Categories: the commonwealth, america, immigration,
Form: Prose
Gemma Prescott
The club event at the Paralympics, 
Is unique only to the Paralympics, 
And is for people with cerebral palsy, 
Or for the brain injured traumatically....

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Categories: the commonwealth, body, desire, education, happiness,
Form: Heroic Couplet
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: the commonwealth, culture, england, history,
Form: Narrative
Inspirational Cavalry Speech
Kill! Kill the enemy with no mercy and commence!
Charge! Charge with your heart immense.
Arise! Arise Men of the Commonwealth!
We will approach with great stealth 
Let...

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Categories: the commonwealth, world war i,
Form: Rhyme
We Are Victims
We are victims
Tied with  common fetters 
Loosed in thoughts of varied choices and desires
Loosely searching to make ends meet:
The meeting at this spot,
Either to...

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Categories: the commonwealth, africa, angst, betrayal, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs