Categories:
earth, england, fairy, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Traffic
We drive on the left
park in the driveway
and walk on the pavement
over here in the good old U.K.
They drive on the right
and on the parkway
also the pavement
over there in the U.S. of A.
It could be confusing to motorist
and pedestrian alike,
so where should we go
when riding a bike?
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Categories:
america, car, england, humor,
Form: Rhyme
ArmisticeNOVEMBER 2022
Rightly so, the poppies flood
Early in the winter sky
Merrily stood in field, and this
Existence of mine has passed by
Maybe they'd watch us contend
But are authorities ever sober?
Early now, in Winter's sky
Realise how they owed her
Unwillingly ignorant to the loss, they'll be
Scorching their retinas, a veil of red...
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Categories:
conflict, england, grief, in
Form: Acrostic
Green And Pleasant Land
If the UK is as PC
as some would have us perceive
(tho' Britons never never never shall be slaves
Boadicea's turning in her grave)
it's incorrect on two counts
would you believe
and the US we should see
as between '52 and '22
it was a Queendom
not a Kingdom
and either way
that's sexist so
to speak more accurately
accordingly it should be
the United Sovereignty
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Categories:
england, humor, language, political,
Form: Rhyme
Call it Bazball or just Test CricketWe knew from the get go after Brendon accepted the call…jettisoned old school for new cool..the Kiwi on the balcony who looks like he’s smoked some bud..having a kip..let slip..quick to quip..almost let rip..did appall..won't linger..two finger flip..nip it in the bud..say no go…skip..snip..crud dud pick…so toodlepip..tally ho to the thick not slick Bazball blip..this...
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Categories:
england, sports, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Home, Home of the Brains - Lyric
~ To the Melody of "Home on the Range" ~
Home, Home of the Brains
Where Scrabble is endlessly played
Where seldom is heard
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Categories:
america, england, humor, language,
Form: Lyric
Categories:
england, 9th grade, abuse, addiction,
Form: Haiku
Welsh Winter : englyn
weathering Wales in bleak winter is hard
though starred sheep remain sleek
taverns roaring fires a feat
making Celtic maidens sweet
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Categories:
allusion, england, fire, how
Form: Englyn
Big Ben
When asked, 'If the orchestra conductor
had made an effort more concerted
not to miss the concert
and a sordid scene averted,
would he have been less disconcerted?'
"Don’t ask me, I’m only the drummer,"
replied I in chagrin.
And, altho' the name of my favourite band
is the one I am currently in,
I do like the sound of the moniker, 'Big Ben,'
it's...
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Categories:
england, fun, humor, london,
Form: Rhyme
Dieu Et Mon Droit
"Oh King Charles Philip Arthur George,
how do I see thee?
Let me count the ways...
Tho' beauty is only skin deep,
and in the eye of the beholder,
or so we have been told,
yours is more, it goes to the bone,
a sore sight for eyes to behold,
now you have acceded to the throne.
As, like diarrhoea, it seems,
it runs in...
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Categories:
celebrity, england, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Wellington - 1769-1852 And Bonaparte - 1769-1821
'England is a nation of shopkeepers'
was never said by Bonaparte
but it was those self-same tradesmen
who kicked Napoleon’s ****
and
when at Waterloo they met
as he won the day
to give it a positive spin
one may only say,
"Wellington put the boot in!"
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Categories:
celebrity, england, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Waiting at the bus stopa bobble hat fellow rumbles along
sharp turns behind me - hello -
but reaches up to the wall
grabs an apple 80 percent intact
and hobbles away again
a few seconds later he's back again
turns behind me, bends low
and picks up the soggy, abandoned
box of donuts
two inside remaining
successful mission
he wobbles away...
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Categories:
england, food, london, simple,
Form: Free verse
Antiquity
If we'd lived in olden days
days of yore
the golden days
and I were a troubadour
I'd serenade you with my lute
unless I had a flute to toot
or go more than the extra mile
and sing a song to make you smile
not with the end of a lance
would I beg my lady's favour
but gallantly request a dance
mayhaps a carol...
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Categories:
england, fun, history, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Britannia Rule
As an Englishman's home
is his castle,
I abide in my own abode
part and parcel,
but as I'm always being told,
by the trouble and strife
(Cockney for 'wife'),
how to behave
in my own house,
whenever the rules I waive,
I must ask, I have to say,
"Why am I not Lord
of all that which I survey?"
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Categories:
england, home, how i
Form: Rhyme
Lessons from Shakespeare Song lyric contest AI musicLessons from Shakespeare
Here’s a song of tragedies
Four plays from bygone times
Shakespeare did the penmanship
For these heroic crimes.
Hamlet was a stately prince
King Lear a royal dad
Othello was a noble man
Macbeth was just plain bad.
From these stories we can learn
That great men can have flaws
And even in this century
We all can crash and burn.
Come...
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Categories:
england,
Form: Lyric
Specific Types of England Poems
Definition | What is England in Poetry?
Poems Related to England
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