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The Commonwealth Poems - Poems about The Commonwealth

The Crown of Silence: A Lament for King Charles III

...You wear a crown forged in centuries of silence,
Not of gold, but of tears—each gem a wound,
Each jewel a stolen breath from lands unnamed.
The sun never set on your empire, Charles,
But neither ...
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Categories: the commonwealth, abuse, betrayal, history, sin,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberConning them in'

...Common marketing
Mind capturing language U K
The Commonwealth gone..'...
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Categories: the commonwealth, community, education,
Form: Senryu



GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

...GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

Of course, in the end, her end was inevitable
Reaching such an age, even in such as this age
A memorable funeral of Pomp and ceremony
A traditional Monarchy, perhaps even the...
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Categories: the commonwealth, age, appreciation, career, celebration,
Form: Elegy

Forecast

...What would it be like if you lived in paradise, what would it like if you didn’t have to work for the rest of your life? What would it be like if you could travel the world on a speed boat and have b...
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Categories: the commonwealth, appreciation, books, business, celebration,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberMoney

...Quote By Poet "Money like honey is sweet to taste but money can sting you."

If money was the way
we would be happy everyday
then why are so many sad
they need more work and less play.


Work...
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Categories: the commonwealth, blue, food, happy, health,
Form: Rubaiyat



Premium MemberThe Value of Royalty

...Having lived nearly three score and ten
these years have known of evidence royal
for all my days Queen Elizabeth II reigned
now passed to glory her majesty so loyal

Looking back on these memora...
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Categories: the commonwealth, identity, thanksgiving, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHrh Queen Elizabeth Ii Rip

...The 8th of September twenty twenty two
A day of sad news is brought to you
London Bridge has fallen this was said
At eighteen thirty two Queen Elizabeth II  is dead

Her Royal Highness reigned f...
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Categories: the commonwealth, death, dedication, grandmother, international,
Form: Free verse

Consistent Lives

...Could anyone, have done it better than the Queen?
In showing us how to live a consistent life, 
A life that can be lived without a streak that is mean.

Could the commonwealth still have held som...
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Categories: the commonwealth, addiction, age, appreciation, character,
Form: Didactic

Absence 2 and Hrms Commonwealth

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I was thinking ... Absences
Used to make hearts grow fonder
Or so the proverb said, in my youth
True in some ways ... Untrue in another 
Some have departed poetry and breath
Such is human ex...
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Categories: the commonwealth, africa, america, international, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBoxing Day

...A long-standing custom of uncertain origins
Boxing Day is tomorrow, always on a weekday,
Originally, to share with the poor our provisions
In modern times became another shopping day
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Categories: the commonwealth, boxing day ,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberTraveling Around the United States

...I have traveled the world over but like the United States best
From Maine to California, north and south, east, and west.
Born in West Virginia, I live in the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Have visited...
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Categories: the commonwealth, america, travel, usa,
Form: Rhyme

The Wanderer

...An adventurer of sorts,
Moving here and there, and yet
Nowhere, I find everything everywhere.

Sometimes liked, sometimes disliked,
But most times,
Just misunderstood...

While speaking in a ...
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Categories: the commonwealth, perspective,
Form: Free verse

New Moneychangers

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And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them t...
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Categories: the commonwealth, corruption, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse

An Uppercut I Remember

...Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who if provoked ...
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Categories: the commonwealth, father son,
Form: Blank verse

My Parents Were Illegal Immigrants In the United States

...In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans.

One day he and seven other prison...
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Categories: the commonwealth, america, immigration,
Form: Prose

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