Short Victorian Poems

A
full
English
breakfast dish-
kedgeree platter....

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a bluish monitor glow
coldly lighting the old
Victorian sitting room...

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cash in hand I bought
victorian hand mirror
glimpse into the past...

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Thomas Hardy
Victorian bardy
Tells us, as his stories unfurl
He never met a happy girl...

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My step-father was a sinner
Who stole my grandfather's dinner
They tossed him in gaol
With a water pail
At last he is a breadwinner!...

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Victorian art is quite clean 
Though Roman and Greek are obscene
The Queen did not care
That David was bare
But he was quite shy of the mean!...

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An orphaned Victorian child
On the streets,running wild
Fated to share a workhouse cot
Asked for a second helping from the pot-
A life of crime becoming his lot....

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Her derringer was at the ready
Ripper’s favorite kind of night
Marlys wanted to kill him herself
After what he did to her sister
Her Victorian dress was the bait...

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Venetian blinds shuttered
Vivacious lust a fix
Veins throb crimson allure
Visceral dread repels
Victorian specter
Vexing savoir-faire lure
Vampire's bloodletting...

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flowery poem
overflowing sentiment
unburdened and old-fashioned
Victorian art
Queen Anne’s lace and pink roses
she wasn’t that kind of girl...

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she dresses in Victorian clothing
stands with wind in her face
Holding her lacy umbrella
staring into the gorgeous horizon
willing her lost love to return
praying and pleading now...

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A mature woman in Victorian attire,
peruses the works of Emily Dickson:
does her spirit speaks on every line?
Brightness is absent, only a glitter
of hope at the beginning of dawn....

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Cut out of black paper
Japanese
Thrown before a sky

Of night milk
Janitress of a
Lower house

One toothed,
Point hatted,
Flying in front of a 

Victorian curtain
Two thirds storm,
One third dark....

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Victorian mirror was extraordinarily romantic
women who discovered her were never disappointed
their wishes came true after her purchase
men flocked to them, for their desirability was heightened
a hundredfold...

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The midnight masquerade ball.
Seemingly slight brocade shawl.
Beseechingly glance, decayed hall.
Haunted trance, unafraid fall.
Vaunted skies evade all.
She tries dissuade call.
Decree daylight, unmade, befall....

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victorian jet
long string of well-crafted beads
treasured memento

sepia image
with grandmother wearing beads
past elegance viewed

my own photograph
wearing the same string of jet
family heirloom...

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George Eliot, an important English Victorian Era writer,
born Mary Ann Evans, she must have been quite the fighter.
Supporting abolitionists and loving whomever she wanted,
“Marion” went against the norms, seemingly undaunted!...

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Autumn Comes Fall-
revolving, wasteful
in late summer and autumn
victorian falls
~
previous, brilliants
in the following autumn
to summer ends fall



11/22/2021
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©...

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For
The love
Of moonstone's
Lucent beauty
A treasured heirloom
Promoting clairvoyance
And intuitive feeling
Hanging on a graceful décolleté 
Where its luminescence gently rests
Superlative Victorian Moonstone....

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His Victorian times were in need of reform. 
He wrote of orphans out in a storm
With no fleece coats to keep them warm,
And a miserable miser counting his gold.
Charles Dickens' topics were true and bold.



Written for Brian's contest  6th place...

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Christmas lights
ring the house
and carols play.

Todd decorates 
his grand Victorian
every year and again 

a different woman
has moved in and 
neighbors wonder if

she will disappear 
as the others have when 
the lights and music end.


Donal Mahoney...

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"The Lady with the Lamp," Florence Nightingale
  Icon of Victorian culture. Her life, an exciting tale

     White pinafore over colonial dress, she wore
She served as first woman nurse in The Crimean War



Date written: 01/22/2021...

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The talented Christina Rossetti
wrote carols and much poetry.
Married love elluded her,I'm afraid,
the poor lass dying as a spinster maid

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
a Victorian pre - raphelite ,you see,
with his true love,buried his poetry
but later ....could not let them be....

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I could pioneer my real self to your credit,
Astonished by facts concealed in my zest .

Was proud of my Victorian traits ,
But you evinced me wrong.

Evoked thoughts of modernisation into me,
Tuned me to a vivacious being.

Such revealing discovery of myself,
Exploring Rarest traits from treasure chest!!...

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He
like a drink
      did granpa
      Shreeve
Sergeant stripes
still on his
       sleeve-
Victorian born
        buckled belt
        boots,trousers
braced
strong
           silent,twirled
           of moustache
           rigid
upright
no ceremony-
            faded
            sepia grey
            in
memory...

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