Wife London Poems

INSPIRED BY CHARACTER OF CLARISSA DALLAOWAY IN VIRGINIA WOOLFE'S STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS NOVEL "MRS. DALLAOWAY"



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Lily White was in the mood for sweets 
Walking the streets 
Came across pastry treats 
Modern Royals pull out a dessert spread 
Enough that armies...

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I was born within the sound of Bow bells in the east end of London, this makes me a true cockney, I own a cock...

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There are lots of theatre breaks websites
It’s clearly a popular thing
To buy an hotel ‘n show package
To watch actors dance, act and sing

And for some...

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London

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

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We are going on a trip to the British Isles
and Channel Island of Guernsey and Normandy.
This sure should be quite a cruise. Here is my
first...

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I had to sit through it all
the conversation that was inevitable
What they did
Where they went
What they saw...
My brother and his wife
On the their expensive trip...

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There is a wedding in old London town
A handsome man and his radiant bride
Ivory silk made up her graceful gown.
A merry throng had gathered in...

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Morning Blues of London
by Steven Cooke

I see reflections in the window,
My coffee, my only friend.
Waiting for my journey to begin.

My suitcase, my only possession.
Yesterdays clothes,...

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We came to your home
Jack
Hidden amongst bosom 
hills and armies of trees 
past the State gates 
who finally admitted 
us entry to your tomb
they keep...

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There is always a way, the optimist says, 
Yet the creak of life’s tensions groan low,
They shadow the quake that the floor he walks makes,
And...

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London was a lady I met many years ago,
Yellow haze and memories and the grimy, smoky snow,
London was a lady with an icy English smile;
‘Asked...

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