Short Churchill Poems
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
a Prime Minister with many a skill.
Though his ideals by some were not favoured,
his victories by many were savoured.
Sir Winston Churchill
His wit and charm lives on still
Whiskey always touched his lips
For every morning he took a sip
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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Never paid his overdue bill
His amazing memory no one could fight
Because a Shakespeare play he could recite
Entry for contest of Andrea Dietrich
A Clerihew
Diplomacy is telling someone to go to hell
And they ask directions, said Winston Churchill
From my recollection
It changed my complexion
Caused my flesh tones to darken and swell
Liquored up, Churchill liked to converse.
Talking politics, Winston would curse:
“All democracy’s trash!
We don’t act: we rehash.
But the other ‘arrangements' are worse."
During World War II, Winston Churchill said
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself” nothing to dread
A nasty time it was
For a totally insane cause
Thankfully the world rose up and on Hitler's plans they tread
Hey Tom, your heart you wear on your sleeve,
Concisely achieve what a poet does perceive,
Surpassing discerning reporters near and afar,
Keep writing about Putin and his stories bizarre,
You remind me of Churchill, just add a cigar.
There are two things that are more difficult
than making an after-dinner speech:
climbing a wall which is leaning toward you
and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill
Has Trump been told this yet?
Jim Horn
Form:
I looked at mental health the way Churchill looked at Hitler,
I have this one and only shot, and with it, I must deliver.
* "for without victory, there is no survival" - Winston Churchill
* "for without survival, there can be no victory" - Nick Trim
Sweep me up;
away from here,
i hope a hero is super near
sweep me up away from here and take me
to a home so far from near//
take me off churchill and onto fairytale life with little bill..
sweep me up away from here & take me to a place far from `Near..
Form:
Just met an
Islamic lady
She was soft spoken
far too young for
me
but she did have on a Batman
tea shirt
She has come to AMERICA
and is learning English
the same language Winston Churchill
spoke
who has passed
into whatever.....
in a used books store
tomes of recorded history
line up on dusty shelves
"Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
~Winston Churchill
For: Bite Size Poem no.38 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
March 4, 2022
May we be blessed to heed the words of Sir Winston Churchill
Who in his lifetime was blessed…
to know a little something about failure and success
He had his share of both…by all accounts:
Success is not final
Failure is not fatal…he said…
It is the courage to continue that counts
Greatness
spawn’s reincarnation
like the dawn
rebirths the sun
Alexander
Patton, and Churchill sleep
but woken
rebecome
When destiny calls
the greatest rise
to battle
zero sum
And stem the tide
before the flood
on shores of victory
— won
(Dreamsleep: December, 2025)
Death standing
at attention
for a fated
reveille
Which trumpets
through
the darkest cloud
to rain down liberty
Each bayonet
he wills in place
with fearlessness
empowered
A call to arms
through hill and dale
to launch
‘His Finest Hour’
(Winston Churchill At War: December, 2025)
"We make a living by what we get,
we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill
aristocratic
leader destined for greatness
supercilious
Nobel prize winner
war correspondant
soldier
Britain's inexorable prime minister
diplomat par excellence
with bulldog tenacity
optimist
Winston
Churchill
WINSTON CHURCHILL
A Commoner and not a lord,
He spent his life,
And round his bedside,
Stood only his children, and his wife.
His stroke was fatal,
At 8 am on the 24th day
Of January in the year 1965,
God paved his way.
A genius, an orator,
A husband loving and so mild,
A man who swayed the masses,
In fact “History’s Child”.
An English accent helps,
if you’re at least half well dressed
in an American bar.
Your voice maybe a passport
to getting yourself laid
or it may perhaps be an invitation
for some young buck to spoil your night
in a fit of beer rage.
However,
if you leave with the girl,
it was because of your good looking
accent;
and I thank you
Sir Winston Churchill.
Anybody who is or was anybody,
Has had them,
I don't know anyone who has avoided them yet
If you have not experienced them yet
They are not a dream,
Just ask Mr Peabody.
Churchill was sick of the sight of them,
They are a delight to nobody,
Not even a vet.
The good news is most of us come out of them,
If our number we don't forget,
That is the opinion of this body.
In London
Big Ben told me the time
Seven p.m.
With chains clinking history
A few yards away
With his heavy jaw
Churchill was chewing
Burned out human wisdom
People were crammed into every space
And cameras were flashing and weaving
Like stunned fireflies
The world’s caique appeared in the mist
Old, very old
The captains come and go
But the oarsmen are the same –
Nameless
I bet they laughed, I bet they howled
I bet Winston Churchill growled
Where’d you get this loony from
He’s talking ’bout a bouncing bomb
All the drawings all the plans
All the notes and telegrams
Tell what happens when one slams
Barrels into concrete dams
Laden heavy for the flight
Nineteen bombers in the night
A secret plan too mad to warrant?
First a trickle then a torrent
A Worthy Question?
Our income tax has become outrageous
Our politicians promise umbrageous
Life one step at a time
Then two steps out of rhyme
Is being honest disadvantageous?
On the Prowl
An old man who lived in a windmill
Way up north in the town of Churchill
Was warned he would have to pay
The revenue man today
Spent all night taking apart his still.
© Harry J Horsman 2018
SOBER IN THE MORNING
A famous leader called Winston Churchill
Quoted a limerick that showed poetic comedy skill
It was Winston who named the Cold War
A riddle, mystery and enigma for sure
In that Soviet era
Russia came ever nearer
To knowing what Britain now stood for
Twice he became Britain’s Prime Minister
Post war prospects became quite sinister
Yet mostly what we seem to remember
Is that V-sign and his cigar’s lit ember
Idi Amin, pol pot, stalin, hitler, francis drake, himmler
mengle, eichman, treudea starmer sunak churchill
jan paul kruger, general crook Tommy Robinson, pharoah mithererandates
moses fauchi mat hancock scott morrison, albanese boris johnson
dan andrews, gates, shipman, ceaser, ceaser's nixon biden trump
roosevelt eisenhower, g w bush, montgomery, rommel, patton
mussolini, mugabe, ian smith, joshua nkomo, chaka zulu. solomon
david and joab.)
I peeked in the room where FDR
And Churchill made a deal –
The chairs and table where they sat
Made history so real.
I stood in the room where JFK
And Eleanor did meet.
Discussions there allowed him
To successfully compete.
Lin-Manual Miranda,
In his most successful play,
Described what I experienced
In Hyde Park yesterday.
It’s special being in the room
Where history occurred
But as to what went down there,
We have only someone’s word.