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Short The English Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about The English by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about The English by length and keyword.


Le Vacance Pretentieuse: Storm Part V
The English weather:
Rainclouds follow us from home
There is no escape....

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© Dan Keir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: the english, adventure, freedom, history, holiday, home, hope, humorous,
Form: Haiku



Sick Queen
Coronavirus attacked 

The English Queen

Let virus go

Leaving Corona!...

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Categories: the english, abuse, conflict, language,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Un-Phonetics
It ain't what you say
  rough,dough,though
  slough,cough,plough
When you say..the English way !...

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Categories: the english, on writing and words
Form: Light Verse
Ampersand
The English are a lazy species.
They use the squiggly ampersand
to save a second and not bother
with 'and'....

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Categories: the english, england, humor, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member CLERIHEW eliot
Missouri's Thomas Sterns Eliot
loved the English life quite a lot*
His style remained American
as a very poetical craftsman...

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Categories: the english, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew



Writer's Block
There are thousands of words in the English language
Right now they're all knocking on my door
I hear them 
But I can't bring myself to answer...

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Categories: the english, writing,
Form: Free verse
Eisteddfod
A pub that's typically Welsh
Has music the English can't squelch
Hymns and arias rule
But, like any gene pool,
The loudest is always a belch!...

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Categories: the english, music, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Mastery
One of the smallest, most powerful words in the English language is “Yet” the next is “Will”. Kale Brereton Oct 6/2018
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Categories: the english, dream, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form: Free verse
The Sun
Today it rained
But only for a while
And then the sun came out
Which if you live in a good climate
May seem quite confusing
But to the English is amusing...

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Categories: the english, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tea for two
Two giraffes decided to see
what the English have for their tea.
They stuck in their necks,
and each of them checks,
then ruled it was too bourgeoisie....

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Categories: the english, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Close To the Heart
They
kept
a lock
of his hair-
a devoted pair,
life-time in-laws,with love to share.

Note:Mother& Wife of Disraeli the English 19th century Prime Minister...

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Categories: the english, family, people
Form: Fibonacci
Premium Member The English Gent
There was a gentleman from England
Who boasted how his land was so grand
Big Ben, Scotland Yard
The Changing of the Guard
It's too bad all the food is so bland!...

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Categories: the english, england, funny, giggle,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Clerihew Lawrence
Sir Thomas  Lawrence grew up in a pub
prolific paintings meant he never needed a sub
Favourite of the English ruling class
but a legendary repute never came to pass...

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Categories: the english, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Short, Shorter, Shortest







             The English language~ lovely.
             To crush poetry to the size of a pea, balmy!

                             7/28/2021


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Categories: the english, giggle, poetry,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Lexical Abuse
The English language slapped me down.
I stabbed it thrice in its flabby gut.
I threw it in a pond to drown.
I asked myself as I made each cut, 
“Is this lexical abuse?”...

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Categories: the english, humor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Zapata Flies
Zapata flies

no grand illusion

channel disappears


Note:https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/748219809/this-time-franky-zapata-makes-it-across-the-english-channel-on-a-hoverboard...

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Categories: the english, flying, magic,
Form: Senryu
The English Science Made a Big Discovery At Last
The English science made a big discovery at last:-
A girl with very large and solid ears,
If  wind is blowing straight towards her rear,
She get to  school of her as twice as fast....

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Categories: the english, school, science,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Bows Enlighten Us
prim and proper
showing Amish upbringing
she has chosen to live among the English
we see her plain ways
when she turns her white bows on her lacy socks show
enlightening many of us...

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Categories: the english, fashion,
Form: Free verse
Hello Not the Other One
if you decide to call your girl any word in the english language
use the best one
the b-word is the best 
no wait, you get me wrong!!!!
its not what you think...
the word is beautiful...

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Categories: the english, funny, teen, thank you,
Form: I do not know?
The English Channel
Addressing a student looking in the air
The teacher asked, "The English Channel is where?"
He said, "Well let's see..."
"I do watch TV,"
"But I haven't heard of that channel on there!"...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: the english, boy, confusion, humor,
Form: Limerick
Strange Beauty 2
sijo    

Tolerance and empathy between people of opposite stance
could take a lesson or two from the English countryside.
There single hedges fuse the best of holly, hawthorn and yew.

...

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Categories: the english, 11th grade, beauty, political, religious,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member English and Their Tea Invite
The English are civilized with their tea.
So let’s run over there. What do you say?
They invited you and probably me.
Lemon my favorite but yours Early Gray.
Terrific way to spend part of our day....

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Categories: the english, drink,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Clerihew Rackham
Arthur Rackham the English illustrator*
had drawing at his very core
A leading figure of he 'Golden Age'
of Fairy Tales drawn on a page

*https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/arthur-rackham...

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Categories: the english, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Rightly Vexed
We know that the English are rightly vexed
Queen Mary we bought; London Bridge annexed
Big Ben's up for bidding
So's the Thames, we aren't kidding
Then London and Leeds and Stonehenge are next

11/23/22...

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Categories: the english, humor,
Form: Limerick
Hindsight
Of all the words in the English language
"should'a" is the most useless one
And I know it's a sin
but I'm gonna give in
I'm gonna put some eyeglasses on my buns
and tell everybody what they should'a done...

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Categories: the english, funny,
Form: Light Verse

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