Short Englishman Poems

Englishman Thomas Wyatt
adventurer poet & diplomat
Imported rom Italy the strombotto
Rhyming forms Sicilian,& Toscano...

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Englishman  Patrick Heron
with large scale artist did belong
Colours were such a delight
especially if seen in sunlight...

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Englishman Paul Nash
with pastoral art made quite a splash
An artist between two world wars
juxtaposing style by the score...

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Cubist/Surrealist Edward Wadsworth
an Englishman by birth
Achieving much artistic success
in abstractions in vogue then I guess...

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An Englishman Grinling Gibbons was his name
wood carved a cravat to find fame
Realistic sculptures helped him survive
making them seem organically alive...

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An Englishman went to Qatar
For the football and bants in the bar
I'm here and I'm queer
And I'm after a beer!
He said. Oh. All together now. Ah

© Gail Foster 18th November 2022...

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Thomas Paine - an
Englishman 

Maybe the best
American

Long and well before
all the fat folks
who live there now

Spoke of national
institutions 
of churches whether
jewish christian or
muslim or other
nonsense

Schemes seeming to
him be no more than
human inventions,
set up to terrify
and enslave mankind
to monopolize for
power...

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A Son of Mine.

You are my Son.
Hope of the human race.
I see myself, in your face.
Soon I will be gone.
Your turn will come.
Which way to go.
To live the life of an Englishman.

In this book I have tried to say.
All. To help you on the way.
The life you lead.
Is in your hands.
Choose with care.
All that you share.

........................

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Twice a year
I pump deflated tires, run a cloth over the dust,
maybe even oil gears if I have thought ahead.
Mostly though, I react to it on impulse,
remember all over again why bike riding in Ohio
(for this climate sensitive Englishman),
can only be done in Spring and Autumn
when the State rests between an Ice-age and
hells steamy kitchen....

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As fascism grows and spreads through the land. A few of sit and remember when an Englishman was respected as a tolerant man. 
Respectful of colour, freedom, compassion and creed. Not bent on self through tyrannical greed.
Now being English carries a weight. Expected loyalty demands xenophobia, resentment and hate.
So be English if that is your path. I’ll turn round, backtrack and nail my colours to a different mast....

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The Englishman left a note.
From there he was afloat.
Of all the stars he saw,
Nothing more dropped his jaw
Than the memory of a life long lived.
And a note that wondered what he did.

Love is a long song.
It will tell you when you are wrong.
So while you walk through wicked whispers
And into the right of laughter-light
Know, that a note flits through the night.

It turns out
You are your 
Brother's daughter....

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On Jerusalem's  shinning spectre
London wastes away
On bus Non speaking Englishman
in England's fair open land
The border centres have a heavy load
from your tired, tireless migrants
Tent cities erected in West End
human capital indivisiblely wasted
Crisis queues at A and E
14 years of  Tory waste
The Bird of prey
on England's blight
Give Labour a chance
invest in peoples power
stop unequal development up North
...

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I say I say I say
Said the horse with the long face
The Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman looked on.
Knock knock said the dwarf 
In a jovial tone
Put his fez on
And then he was gone.
What's black,white and red? the nun said
As a trumpet grew in her yard
She rooted it oot without a sound
And didn't let down her guard.

If a picture paints a thousand words
Then Dali said it well
The world is other than it seems
Let's leave at the last bell....

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An Englishman 
A Scotsman 
And an Irishman 
Go into a Bar

Great

Nice to see them getting along and having a drink

A Jew
And a Muslim
And a Catholic 
Go into a Café 

Fantastic

Nice to see them eating together 

An American 
And a Mexican
Meet to discuss building a wall

Over the border

A RussIan 
And a Syrian
Meet for Coffee

And all hell breaks loose

Something's change 
Something's don't 
Depends on the people at the meeting...

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