London To Work
...Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner,
That's how the song goes.
I am proud of this city,
And it has been sung about in many a ditty.
Each day I get on bus 341,
And my journey through history ha...
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Categories:
londoner, career, city, endurance, food,
Form: Rhyme
The Visit
...It went wrong,
two days to visit my former life
as a Londoner.
Old men in East End pubs
knew my past
but the tour bus
did not pass that way.
Trips around Buckingham Palace,
the Tower of L...
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Categories:
londoner, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Anxious Kate
...Anxious Kate
could never be late
Up at 3:30
she began to worry
Got to work two hours early
sat around growing surly
Kate's morning dragged on
with many a yawn
By lunch break
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Categories:
londoner, angst, anxiety, satire,
Form: Narrative
For I'M a Londoner Now
...Found my way round London like a boss
Know the best way to Piccadilly and Kings Cross
For I'm a Londoner now
Seen the sights Big Ben and the like
Taken a cycle journey on a Boris bike
For I'...
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Categories:
londoner, city,
Form: Rhyme
Layered Cake Pt 2
...Layered Cake pt 2
Further afield I met a gangster in Liverpool who was alrite
He liked a right tear up and had a job to appear legit
But his real work was in various things like drugs, guns and ...
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Categories:
londoner, conflict, life, teenage,
Form: Verse
Lone Londoner
...I look at this wonder,
This art,
The landscape behind her blushes,
Lone Londoner,
She defeats my love,
Trumps my harmony,
Warms my blood,
She beats my heart,
Passion in her eyes,
Co...
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Categories:
londoner, london,
Form: Free verse
Advert For the Father-Land
...By Fatmir Terziu
What could I tell a Londoner about the Fatherland? The adverts
Are copies of the unscrupulous inscriptions in tombstones,
Just as we are copies of the bestial goods,
Of our ego...
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Categories:
londoner, art,
Form: Free verse
Livin' Through the Sky
...I live
I survived
No-one can track this beat
You losers
I win
I destroyed those who were racial
Those who lighted up their fates
I live again
Through the power of the sword
My soul lives
Lo...
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Categories:
londoner, change,
Form: Concrete
Starless Night: the Art of Giving (Rhyme Incorporated) Part 2
...Thinking of O, Ms. Jill Martin was in her solitude “Quietly…breathing”
That, she just waved her hand greeting April Lewis “Without Speaking”
I spied humorist Donald Meikle, writing a “Note to a Lad...
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Categories:
londoner, art, friendship, funny, on
Form: I do not know?