Short Londoners Poems
Short Londoners Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Londoners by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Londoners by length and keyword.
Buffalo Dreams
A buffalo’s another name for bison,
Don’t you know?
But you can’t boil your Christmas pud
Inside a buffalo …
This is a pun on the word “basin”, which Londoners (and Aussies) pronounce “bison”.
It’s an English thing …...
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Categories:
londoners, animals, funny
Form:
Epigram
The Bulldog Breed
The British in the past
Seemed to have more grit
The Londoners of old
Bombarded in the Blitz
Shook their fists in defiance
Such were the plucky Brits
People alive today
Would never stand for it
They’d shout about human rights
And probably serve a writ...
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Categories:
londoners, life
Form:
I do not know?
The Tyburn Tree
The Tyburn wagon halts at every inn.
Tight stinking alleys
cobblestones and gin.
The condemned drink their fill,
none fear falling ill.
Harlots cackle and screech
the condemned grow horny.
The Hanging Tree accommodates
three at a time.
Six limbs a’ waving,
bladders and bowels voiding
- drink now to the dangling.
A canting debauchery
spends its copper penny.
Hungover Londoners swear
‘off the wagon,’
but look here comes another:
Pass the flagon!...
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Categories:
londoners, poetry,
Form:
Free verse