Short Churchill Poems

never in the field of human poo have so many smelt the stench of so few...

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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.
...

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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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5-29-15...

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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...

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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...

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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."...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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.....

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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........

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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...

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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

"We make a living by what we get, 
we make a life by what we give."
quote is from Churchill himself...

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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”....

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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....

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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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.)
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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....

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 The Eagle Has LANDED -A TITLE POEM/Free Verse








Theparatroopers safely landed in England, 
Eagle were their names in code.
Has not Heinrich Himmler informed us,
Landed in order to kidnap “Sir Winston Churchill”.








9/27/19
Written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©




TITLE POEM
Take the title of your favorite book (or movie or song) and use each of the words as the beginning of a line....

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If you’re destined to be famous 
would you take it 
If being distinctly heinous 
Is how you make it 
Not a Sinatra or Monroe 
but a Hitler or Mussolini 
instigate an all time low 
death pain and misery 
Power mad to the bone 
Abusing humanity 
Famous but alone 
For the authority 
What’s fame if you’re evil 
Dangerous mad and lethal 
Admiration of the people 
Mentally weak and feeble 
Hitler was destined 
So was Churchill 
Fame your destination 
Would you still?...

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