Short Napoleon I Poems

O' his mighty soul
Truly a man of courage
And all for his France...

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Colonies in America rebelled -
British, French Haiti, why the latter quelled?...

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Napoleon was miserable
Very sad and flat
To cap it all
A strong wind blew
Whipping off his Tricorn Hat!...

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Napoleon Bonaparte.
Smaller than a popcorn fart.
Not man enough for Josephine.
You know exactly what I mean....

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They came to take you away
Napoleon the fourteenth
We remember that ditty 
from decades ago.
...

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With Napoleon and King Tut
   History's stuck in a rut
We're still not sure how they died

Now with DNA samples
   Technology so ample
My only question is Why?...

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I sense a Napoleon complex
As Joe the canary his wings flex
He stretches tall and proud
Squawks and shrieks really loud
At the Seagull who has huge, huge pecs  ...

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Alexander the Great, Caesar and Napoleon too
   Through military conquest empires grew

Pulitzer's Fourth Estate ruled the modern world
   ~ 'til Zuckerberg Facebook, then Meta unfurled...

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Artist Jaques-Louis David
into politics he once slid
He loved the 'Roman nose'
with Napoleon in a dramatic pose*

*https://useum.org/artwork/Napoleon-Crossing-the-Alps-Jacques-Louis-David-1801...

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Vladimir Putin

Surely must suffer from

Such a Napoleonic

Small , Man , Syndrome

Complex

He needs a step ladder

In order to look his so called enemies

In the eye

Or stab them in the back...

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The clock on Big Ben will soon 
strike midnight
And the pubs are closed
Where do we go
and what do we do?

England still owns the rock
where Napoleon died

Always is a long time
and the Queen is dead...

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Haven't heard recently about Napoleon Blownapart
Perhaps it's because his parts were blowed off the chart
Hard to survive
When parts have flied
All over the country, such sadness it imparts...

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The locals’ boats all gathered round;
Napoleon was in The Sound
On board Bellerophon.

Two guardships kept the crowds at bay;
The Emperor was on his way
To exile, freedom gone.

Jack Horne for Dr Ram’s Tail Rhyme contest...

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He was egotistical
Like Napoleon
    No longer a thorn for me
           On the day he said:
                  “It’s my way or the highway”
                            This new job has set me free

Composed 10/09/2012...

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You may conquer
on horseback
but to rule
must dismount
Pandora
lies waiting
new blood
for the fount

Napoleon
Attila
Augustus
afield
The vanquished
in chaos
till order
—congeals

(Dreamsleep: October, 2023)...

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This Halloween I'll hand out no candy
Just yachts, fast cars, and Napoleon Brandy
Yes, I'll be spreading my wealth
My friends, here's to your health!
There's fine wine ready and my checkbook handy

Written 10/11/22...

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Napoleon, the Military Commander,
Rose to prominence as the indefatigable French leader.
Stood on victor’s podium for long, but Fate pulled down Bonaparte.
A deflated balloon in Waterloo, with his armaments torn apart!...

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Trapped, like Napoleon on Elba, cursing himself 300 straight nights.
There's no escape from MY desolate coast"so I longingly wait nights.
The moon comes and goes on restless, disenchanted, chaste nights.
Will I be an old maid before the next"dear and playful"date night?...

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How fast they fall
from the heavens
pounded to stone dust
a culture of thought
reduced to tzatziki sauce
stare at the statues
of broken leg and limb
this empire is dead
the next one too
on and on the merry-go-round
	spins
the last tango is never in Paris
just ask Napoleon...

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Edgar Allan Poe
Died in 1849, you know.
We heard his telltale heart beneath the floor;
Then quoth the raven: nevermore!

Napoleon Bonaparte,
His marriage to Josephine got blown apart.
Her barrenness: his Rubicon;
His name, he thought, should live ever on.
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The Spanish had armadas;
the Americas, flotillas.
The Amazon has capybara;
the Andes has chinchillas.
Kentucky has its sassafras;
Madagascar has vanilla.
Napoleon lost at Waterloo;
Frazier, in Manila.
Will a person tell the Mexicans
how to pronounce tortilla? 
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Not Alexander, not Caesar, not Napoleon
None of the warring butchers
Can measure up to him
Who could have been but didn't want to be a king
Who didn't allow himself to be a god
Who running far ahead of all humankind 
Grabbed the future 
And brought it back
Like an ordinary apple 
To put on the table of a new nation...

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         the surprising thing is not
       that every man has his price
            but just how low it is

      Quote By Napoleon Bonaparte

           searching under stones
       curious what the worms have 
           holes become the norm 
          stay there a little too long
        and you will envy the worms 
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Our Lady of Paris
With your ribbed vaults
Flying buttress
And rose colored windows
The Huguenots
The Republicans
Couldn't destroy you
Victor and Quasimodo
Loved you
Napoleon restored you
Fire couldn't destroy you
Your spire fell
But your spirit
Your cross
Still shines

NOTRE DAME IN THE NEWS Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Rodrigues
5/16/19...

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I wonder if I’ve lived before,
And what my life was like.
Perhaps I was the boy who stuck
His finger in the dyke.
I could have been Napoleon
And lost at Waterloo;
Or might have been the fellow who
Invented Super Glue.
I do not know about the past,
Nor lives I’m yet to see -
But spare a thought for some poor soul
Who finds that he was me.

for Carolyn's contest...

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