Sir Mick
Michael Phillip Jagger
learned to strut and sway with swagger
the queen thought him so chique
she knighted him and now he is known as Sir Mick
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Categories:
knighted, humorous,
Form: Clerihew
Excited When Invited and Knighted
would become excited
by queen he had been invited
when he was knighted
to win gave up soul
gain power was his goal
position he stole
seem so suspicious
found things to be fictitious
also felicitous
under dome my home
ran teeth through hair with come
in place where i roam
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Categories:
knighted, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Ringo Was Knighted Today
Ringo was knighted today
For music and his entertaining way
He was the last living Beatle
To have this honour for his musical mettle
For peace love and music he is well known
And for his sixties peace sign shown
So as the Beatles start to fade from memory
We will always remember their story.
Paul Warren Poetry
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Categories:
knighted, music,
Form: Ballad
Knighted Cards
Knighted Cards
Richard Boone
Presented Paladin cards under an ominous tune.
First gunslinger so erudite
In circumstances likely to explode like cordite.
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Categories:
knighted, america, celebrity, music,
Form: Clerihew
The Knighted Night
The Knighted Night
Too much sun can kill the skin,
The Benevolent whispered to me,
The daylight’s hard due diligence done,
Grants no shade from toil for free…
But yield instead to my calm implore,
Let loose the day’s long listed sins,
Walk into me to find the cure,
For all day’s debts I have forgiven.
So Benevolent marked in winter’s woods,
a place where
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Categories:
knighted, child, christian, forgiveness, freedom,
Form: Imagism
Knighted By the Queen (Call Me Sir Sidney)
I was knighted by the queen, I think
When I gate crashed the ball wearing pink
She said “goodnight I say”
“Guards take him away”
Due to the over indulgence of drink
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Categories:
knighted, funny
Form: Limerick
Knighted
I kneel on the dusty battlefield,
my eye catches a glint of the tarnished sword.
The glint blinds me, my mind
fills itself with memories from long before.
I, a young boy, am riding on a youthful pony.
My body trembles with this new wonder,
as the pony’s smooth gait prompts me
to kick its sides, increasing speed…
Next, I, the
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Categories:
knighted, death, history, on work
Form: Narrative