A Valentine In London
...My Valentine has a ticket to ride;
So London town beware!
New wings will carry her up north;
A pass to Leicester Square.
Let Big Ben toll and chime aloud;
St James's Park prepare;
The hustle o...
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Categories:
covent, valentines day,
Form: Free verse
Antagonistic or Protagonistic
...Extended Cultural Reaches
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entry themes and walk on music------------------
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They set the standards high
ex...
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Categories:
covent, analogy, beautiful, clothes, education,
Form: Ballade
Zealous untiring repentance
...Zealous untiring repentance
Fleshed out as poetic confessional.
Profligacy prevailed pricking psyche
precipitating pandemonium.
I wrought havoc courtesy aegis
of paramours picadillos, your...
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Categories:
covent, absence, adventure, africa, anger,
Form: Free verse
London's districts and life
...London’s districts
Cricklewood, Greenford, and Edgware are nice districts of London; I lived there
Amazing moments, times, and emotions all of them. Wembley is my residence
Lovely nights, rainbo...
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Categories:
covent, life, london,
Form: Free verse
Scratching Fanny in Cock Lane A true tale
...Scratching Fanny in Cock Lane, a true tale
The year1762 a tale of murder or mystery they boast
A teenage girl, a drunken parish clerk, and maybe even a ghost
About hordes of aristocrats and wealt...
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Categories:
covent, murder, mystery,
Form: Ode
Confused I And Stressed In London
...is everyone from Barking Barking mad?
Does everyone In Lambeth do the Lambeth walk?
Is Leicester Square In Leicester?
Is The Elephant And Castle a place where they hide Elephants?
Is Oxford Stre...
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Categories:
covent, city, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Saint Hilda's Tears
...We were always a little ash white,
the girls always a bit cleaner;
the soap always green carbolic
the toilet paper always slick and hard to scrunch,
six year old bottoms always a little sore.
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Categories:
covent, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Who Stands For Love
...KELP SEAWORTHY.....WE KNOW ONE THING: HE VALUES HIS TIME AS CHAMPION
HIS CROWN IS COVENT, IT'S THE MEANS OF HIS WEALTH
AND IT IS THE REASON HE THRIVES. HE WORKS HARD TO BE A TOP TALENTED SUPERSTAR....
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Categories:
covent, adventure, celebration, film, inspirational,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Town Full of Hopes
...An auld Covent
watches over its town
by shedding grey husk all over
wondering to be once more found
on the antipodes - across
bygone graveyard
not here neither lost
stubbornly lasts
bet...
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Categories:
covent, history,
Form: Ode
In Old California 6
...Then Margarita gave her father mind,
for she was very happy being home.
Hence three years placed in a covent confined
where she's had little use of brush and comb.
Removed from places she loved m...
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Categories:
covent,
Form: Rhyme
The Chapel
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Back in 1887, The Convent Of Our Lady was built,
It was part of a school for girls run by grey nuns;
1971- demolish, sad that tilt,
Art gallery wanted it and offered big sums.
It...
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Categories:
covent, history,
Form: Pantoum
Marshland
...The Marshland
In the middle of the fen where the soil is full of rotting foliage,
roots of tree from the time the land was a forest,
a dam where ducks swim and as is the way of ducks noisy in
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Categories:
covent, culture, friendship, giggle,
Form: Blank verse
Dickensian Time
...In Dickensian time
Upon sunset hour
Overshadowing Thames
Is London Tower
Blackened cobble streets
Shimmer in the rain
Big Ben at Westminster
Chimes an eight bells refrain
At Euston Station...
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Categories:
covent, places,
Form: Free verse
Scratching Fanny in Cock Lane, a true tale
...The year1762 a tale of murder or mystery they boast
A teenage girl, drunken parish clerk, and maybe even a ghost
About hordes of aristocrats and wealthy men assembling
Crowds rivalling Covent Ga...
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Categories:
covent, history,
Form: Ode
Run a Way Train
...Coocoo chacoo!
Well, you’d think a blithering idiot
got hold of my governor controls……..
You’d think Watt had never invented a throttle for my mouth
Of course, no one ever has, and doubts exists an...
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Categories:
covent, passion, political, social
Form: Free verse
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