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Westminster Abbey Poems - Poems about Westminster Abbey


Premium Member Westminster Abbey
... Westminster Abbey if only it could speak ah... the stories posted on March 8, 2025......

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Categories: westminster abbey, history,
Form: Haiku
Chaucer Translation: Merciless Beauty
...Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty") by Geoffrey Chaucer loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Your eyes slay me suddenly; their beauty I cannot sustain, they wound me so, throu......

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Categories: westminster abbey, beauty, heart, relationship, romance,
Form: Roundel



Premium Member Have Gum Will Not Travel
...Have Gum; Will Not Travel Forget it! I am not going five thousand miles just To be bored and homesick. No. And what am I supposed to do there, besides go broke? What am I supposed to be lookin......

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Categories: westminster abbey, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Little White Church
...The Little White Church The little white church, engulfed by the immensity Of Douglas fir, Hemlock, and Western Red Cedar On Nootka Island in Nootka Sound, Confirms the remoteness of the......

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Categories: westminster abbey, christian, culture, history, native
Form: Verse
Premium Member Covers My Hero
...With an apple a day my cheeks are still flabby Doesn't delay the inevitable, my bod still gets shabby Belly covers my hero Like wearing a pillow Still, remember the building of Westminste......

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Categories: westminster abbey, age,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member And Time Stood Still
...Like an arboretum, my smile and laughter fills empty space, tall stand the trees all huddled together like girlfriends on a chilly night ready to share their secrets. We lay bare our souls, sat on ......

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Categories: westminster abbey, friendship, memory, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Handel's Messiah
...A combination of Prose and Free Verse: The most thrilling and inspirational piece of music ever to reach my ears is, without doubt, Handel's Messiah. I've never known anyone who could experien......

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Categories: westminster abbey, christmas, music,
Form: Prose
Premium Member London Lament
...I had to sit through it all the conversation that was inevitable What they did Where they went What they saw... My brother and his wife On the their expensive trip to see Roger Federer in the f......

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Categories: westminster abbey, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Composed Upon Hyde Park
...Ah, let come this stiffling breeze now to ye all! Such sweet sap envelops my every pore, Shall I await for the ever fresh rainfall? For I fear the amber of daylight no more. Dormant they reclin......

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Categories: westminster abbey, baptism, environment, green, teacher,
Form: Sonnet
Fickle-Foolish-Footles - Man's Best Friend
...Overweight Terrier: Porky Yorkie Un-cool Terrier: Dorky Yorkie Spaniel dog breeder: Cocker Stocker Parrot who mimics a Spaniel's bark: Cocker Mocker Book on how ......

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Categories: westminster abbey, animal, dog, funny,
Form: Footle
Premium Member David Livingstone
...Long, long ago and longer When I was but a child I read of Doctor Livingstone Who ventured in the wild. Dr. David had no fear He went where few had gone. This missionary and explorer To Africa was d......

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Categories: westminster abbey, adventure, history,
Form: Epic
Westminster Abbey
...Westminster Abbey, With all its doors, Welcomes all, As church bells implore: Come now England, And praise thy Lord, Drop thy shield, And sheath thy sword, So that two hands can pray, Aga......

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Categories: westminster abbey, history, religion
Form: Verse
My Christmas Box
...My Christmas Box by Rob Barratt We’ll have an X-Men, X-files, X-Box, no socks, X-Factor, Max Factor, Max Bygraves, no war graves of a Christmas I want empathy, an MP3, a hemp-free, hump-free,......

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Categories: westminster abbey, funnypeace, angel, angel, drink,
Form: Light Verse
Morning In London
...Aprils mist… Easy flowing of mornings gift Bearing the tidings of baker and fisherman The phantom fog rolling onward With melancholy gray tendrils reaching Into the ancient alleyways of Tower H......

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Categories: westminster abbey, hope, introspection, life, places,
Form: Bio

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