Long Downing street Poems
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A New Queen Is BornI stood at the back of the line and watched nature unfold in front of my weeping eyes. I stood at the back of the line watching them moving in droves from every corner of...
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Categories:
downing street, care, celebration, change, death, environment, future, leadership,
Form:
Narrative
Confused I And Stressed In Londonis 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 Street in Oxford?
And Paddington a bear?
Highgate...
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Categories:
downing street, city, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Dual HeritageI am a descendant of Greece and the
Greeks,
We say hello and goodbye by kissing
Both cheeks,
But I also descend from the British,
For my father was very, very English!
I am a true mix of English
And Greek,
And...
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Categories:
downing street, life, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
London LamentI 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 to see Roger Federer in the flesh
My husband and daughter...
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Categories:
downing street, sad,
Form:
I do not know?
BorisWell swollen boobies on bullocks Boris is boss
our nations Prime Minister at J Hunt's loss
some say a buffoon and they say it sinister
like the mans brain is only miniature
think Corbyn the codfish would be...
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Categories:
downing street, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream Party At Number 10In my dreams
like many have dreams,
I went to number 10 Drowning Street.
in this pandemic, isolation to cheat,
there is no other better place
to meet, greet, drink and eat!
In the back garden, I sat with Boris,
chatting...
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Categories:
downing street, abuse, america, anger, anxiety, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Big Lil - 1968It was a year of revolutions
Worldwide, quiet little fights
Wanting more from democracy?
Fighting for Civil Rights.?
From Hull three trawlers sank
February, fifty eight lives lost,
Adding to that 10 thousand
Deep sea fishing would finally cost.
They called them Headscarf...
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Categories:
downing street, courage, dedication, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
ButterflyShe was just 8 years old
With freckles on her face
She was a little tom boy
Playing miles from the U.S base
Her name was parwana
Means butterfly in afghan
She was like a little princess
Born in a cruel...
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Categories:
downing street, childhood, confusion, daughter, death, dedication, father, fear,
Form:
Light Verse
Modern Day GenocideBoris and Hancock heads held high but don't be surprised for they know how to lie
Pockets jingling they have no shame, they don't really find you all the same
Watch your loved ones through a screen...
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Categories:
downing street, death, political,
Form:
Rhyme
George Osbornes Speech At the Conservative Party Conference 2015George Osborne’s Speech at the Conservative Party Conference 2015
Yesterday, on the 5th of October, Chancellor George Osborne said,
He was gonna give devolved powers to local councils dead;
He was gonna extend his hand to the many,...
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Categories:
downing street, community, jobs, leadership, money, political, power, work,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
All These and I Today Are OneALL THESE AND I TODAY ARE ONE
All these and I today are one
Two blocks
The neighborhood
Supermarket ...
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Categories:
downing street, childhood, today, drug,
Form:
Free verse
10 Downing Street10 DOWNING STREET
Six years ago on 10 Downing Street,
Tourists by the score we did meet,
Fascinated by the pomp and splendor
England’s Political leader, in his famous home,
Safe from the crowds, having tea
A discreet meeting at
This Historical...
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Categories:
downing street, love,
Form:
Free verse
Jarrow CrusadersThey were strong men of steel
In flat caps and hobnail boots,
hunger pains all they could feel
dressed in Sunday best suits,
poor diet of potato and marrow
no more ships, unemployment high
for folk in northern town...
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Categories:
downing street, betrayal, character, class, community, dedication, discrimination, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tribute To Our SoldiersFare thee well our precious men and boys
Marching into war
Fighting for a purpose
Does anyone know what for
As some you return lying down
Instead of tall and strong
How can we all sit and watch
Surely this is wrong
Will...
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Categories:
downing street, angst, anxiety, dedication, education, leaving, london, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
1984 In London AloneThere I was on overnight sleeper
catching the Kilmarnock-Euston train
didn't sleep much on the way
hit the capital 6.30am met the rain
I was there for a week much to enjoy
got into sally army hostel need not book
it...
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Categories:
downing street, life, london, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Cock-A-Doodle-DontSo, would you tell me Sir, what can’t a labradoodle do
You’ll never hear a labradoodle Cock-a-doodle-do
Neither will a wallaby or skippy kangaroo
Nor anything not chicken, and not a cockatoo
Huskies and Alsatians, they don’t figure...
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Categories:
downing street, humorous, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Number Ten AgainOne of the greatest footballers that ever did play
Wore the number ten shirt in the name of Pele
Commandments of ten were given on Mount Sinai
How that number came up nobody knows why
Ten Downing...
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Categories:
downing street, imagery, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
A Change At No 10In a world of mediocrity
Where sounds bites rule the day
There’s only one Politician
That means what they say
He fought against apartheid
And would ban the bomb
The guy he’s not for turning
No election promises...
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Categories:
downing street, political,
Form:
Free verse