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Oxbridge Poems - Poems about Oxbridge


Intellspeak
...We used to listen to the Radio Five minutes News on the hour Middle of the road voices Not too light or too dour. Now we have twenty four hour TV With accompanying twenty four news And a speci......

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Categories: oxbridge, humor, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Sword of Honour
...His father was an Aristocrat His mother a high class whore And he attended Public School As had his ancestors before, Achieved a First at Oxbridge, Sword of Honour at Sandhurst, Served in Bosni......

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Categories: oxbridge, angst, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Optimist
...Overrun with covid Overpowered with stress, Obligation their aim Otherwise our health spent, Oxbridge to the rescue Outlook fashions a smile On the front line of hell. © Harry J Horsman 202......

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Categories: oxbridge, dedication,
Form: Verse
Spring At Last
...SPRING AT LAST The long awaited spring has come today To chase away long winter months of gloom. Unprecedented floods have drained away And crocuses are bursting into bloom. T......

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Categories: oxbridge, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Malay Pantun: Post-Colonial Writing
...La capinera's wintering pieces of tropic tunes The garden warbler's echoes of dark melodies Post-colonial poets return by summering fortunes Learnt by rote as sacred Oxbridge duties Note T......

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Categories: oxbridge, on writing and words,
Form: Pantoum



Premium Member Wake Asia Wake - Part Two - 1
...Part Two Older in age younger in growth still heeding His Master’s Voice the Great swirling dark illiterate masses led by less than nought poin......

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Categories: oxbridge, inspirational, dark, dark,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Does the World Need Another Sestina?
...Bloody, bloody Ezra Pound I never got my head around his magnum opus: The Cantos I’ve tried so hard but goodness knows he didn’t intend it to be easy for me or his mate Mussolini. Perhaps obs......

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Categories: oxbridge, funnyme,
Form: Sestina

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