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Boleyn Poems - Poems about Boleyn

Overexertion

...Perpetual
Intellectual
Mother
Just another
Smother, then cover
“Too weak to recover”
“Be our good maid”
“Just to be betrayed”
“Don’t give her a voice!”
It’s not love if there’s no ch...
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Categories: boleyn, abuse, appreciation, beautiful, dark,
Form: Free verse

TRAGIC QUEEN

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Anne Boleyn Courted Disaster
Eventually, From Gruesome Henry.
If justifying Kingly Love,
Must Nurture Offspring Prince.
Queen Really Struggles Trying.
Unfortunate Victim With X-chromosomes.
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Categories: boleyn, death,
Form: ABC



Premium MemberAnne Boleyn Saved the Day

...I came across a tale one day
about a hatchet on display
a crowd be had an oddity
I see no man but only me
mind pays less, its tales interest
as time goes fast like growing grass
the tailor come...
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Categories: boleyn, rights, tribute, women,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTime Traveler Who Would You Choose To Be If You Could?

...Have you ever sat or laid down
Deep in thoughts that float 
Into your mind and your imagination
Creates a movie

What if those thoughts made you think
About your ancestors and what kind of life...
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Categories: boleyn, history,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn Pacifica

...In Pacifica
I despise that portrait of me.
The likeness ends
with the name.
Yes, Jane Seymour, unbeheaded
Queen of England.
No, not of pinched thin lips
and sharp bird-beak nose.
Those hideou...
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Categories: boleyn, history,
Form: Free verse



The Poems I Never Wrote

...I have pages of unfinished poems, most a menial scribble.
Thoughts, simple phrases, baited hooks without a nibble.
Rhyming lines lost like balls because of my faulty dribble
or tossed aside becaus...
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Categories: boleyn, poems,
Form: Rhyme

5

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"5" 

benevolence and favour
seemed to be absent
in the world 

grace, a name 
whispered before 
a meal shared

5 fingers 
on each hand
steeples, hiding people 

g...
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Categories: boleyn, war,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHenry and Anne

...Anne Boleyn Condemned 
  Declared England's Floozy 
Grotesque Henry Imposed Justice
King's Law Meted
Nobles Obediently Praised
  Queen's Reasonless Subjugation
Testosterone Unequivocally Vindic...
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Categories: boleyn, history, london,
Form: Abecedarian

Premium MemberSix Wives of Henry

...Bessie Blount, lady-in-waiting, gave him a bastard son.
Catherine was first true wife, who birthed his daughter.

Anne Boleyn, lady-in-waiting, caused king to divorce.
The king want...
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Categories: boleyn, angst, women,
Form: Free verse

Silent Watcher

...SILENT WATCHER

Oh the things she's seen,
Pterodactyls swooping low,
Nagasaki all aglow,
Iceage creeping over land,
Maradonna's cheating hand,
Armstrong making one giant leap,
Humpbacks singi...
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Categories: boleyn, moon,
Form: Rhyme

Dead Crush

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"Dead Crush"



Oh uplift me woman
if we were to have a 
conversation would 
bees fly out of your mouth
or just mewling, simpering 
watered-dow...
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Categories: boleyn, courage, freedom, women,
Form: Free verse

O Witless Quill

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"O Witless Quill"




O witless quill
sharply dipped in smiles leering
joust they your words
on their egos competing
galloping black stallions,...
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Categories: boleyn, dark, imagery, journey, light,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAn Infamous Legend

...AN  INFAMOUS LEGEND

King Henry XIII was indeed quite a boy,
He had no clue how to spell the word coy,
He was consumed by a quest that 
A wife bear,
And give birth to a male heir,
He was fat, ...
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Categories: boleyn, funny, history,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCherish Armour

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"Cherish Armour"


She 
wears 
Her armour,

LOVE -

draped like chain mail
shields You 
with Her heart

When She is drowning
She will thro...
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Categories: boleyn, daughter, journey, love, mother,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Legacy of Anne Boleyn

...She stands all alone in a court full of men
An innocent woman condemned
The charges are great, she's resigned to her fate
She knows she will die in the end

Though she is in despair she's standi...
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Categories: boleyn, england, history, judgement, prejudice,
Form: Lyric

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