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Best Trooping Poems

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

Trooping of All Colours

The day I joined the Soup
Frankly I was so cock-a-hoop
    So many kind poets
    Who didn't all know it
Most...

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Categories: trooping, on writing and words,
Form: Limerick

Trooping the Colour

(The UK Queen's Platinum Jubilee was in June 2022)


You're at Trooping the Colour now, Dominic.
Were we not friends when we were schoolboys?
You look so smart...

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Categories: trooping, color, dance, memorial day,
Form: Free verse

London

London

The tour of London begins
 In the streets of my mind,
  Through past and present
   Intrinsically entwined,
    Through people...

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Categories: trooping, london,
Form: Rhyme

Obsequies for a Queen

(Elizabeth II 1926-2022)


Are we - crow, blackbird, sparrow -
aware of what's occurring?
We cannot tell, they assume,
but gape and gaze from up here.

This is a land...

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Categories: trooping, city, color, death, grave,
Form: Free verse

A Galant City Unmatches Your Greatness

You are extreme in beauty
perfected by builders who constructed all
your planking with pine trees from Ivory coast
and made a mast for you out of the...

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Categories: trooping, birth, birthday, blessing, celebration,
Form: Ode

Albums of War

I saw those men in solemn chain trooping from the line
hand on shoulder, link to link their bandaged eyes gas blind.
The image burned upon my...

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Categories: trooping, warmen,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

A Deep-Dreamer's Mirror

The moon rabbit is chasing a man on the moon               ...

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Categories: trooping, allegory, allusion, humorous, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Colors of South Gate

Show me the gate
Show me the fortification
I see the trooping of colors

Where is the gate show me
Show me that i may lock it
I see the...

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Categories: trooping, dedication, metaphor, military, war,
Form: Narrative

Resurrected Heroe

RESURRECTION OF A HEROE:

CHORUS:

Far from comparison, far from fear.
Failure part of the journey; shed no tears.
Man...do... the best you can do.
Talents in your hand's only...

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Categories: trooping, beautiful, beauty, hero,
Form: Lyric

The Second Coming

After a meal of;
'Lamb steaks and Baccaroni,
Embroided with sweet potatoes'.
Life tossed him around and
Dazed him with threatening pleasures.
Then did he take up a tag to...

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Categories: trooping, allegory,
Form: Narrative

Coronation for a King

(Charles Philip Arthur George - b. 14 November 1948)


I had a cousin called Charles, said Aunty Olive.
Nice young man. That's him on our TV.

That's not...

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Categories: trooping, age, celebrity, eulogy, london,
Form: Free verse

That Place

Like a stillborn child they slept;
Their good and evils they 
couldn't do again.
In a place quiet, dark and 
lonely,
Where even prisoners are as 
free as...

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Categories: trooping, fear, desire,
Form: Free verse

Benediction Towards Anonymous Mindful Readers

Reverence affects yours
     truly with unmeasurable
     infinite jubilant zeal,
sans unbeknownst world wide
     (web...

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Categories: trooping, 11th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

The Flight

I saw the herons trooping across the evening sky
And wondered how far their white wings flew
What perils neath cosmic clouds their patient path defy
What change...

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Categories: trooping, love, change, river,
Form: Verse

Morning of a Buddhist Monk

Rise  upon the trucks by dawn,trooping the soi`s (streets)
              soaring heat...

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Categories: trooping, religionmorning,
Form: Free verse