Queen poems

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 veteye 19 Sep 2022

I must be turning to be a little royalist (not really), as I quite like Roger McGough's poem, "God rest the Queen". 

I prefer it to Simon Armitage, the poet laureate's tribute to the queen, albeit a double acrostic (spelling?).

What do you think?

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OP veteye 19 Sep 2022
In reply to veteye:

Dislikes!

:-}

Sad buggers.

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 nastyned 19 Sep 2022
In reply to veteye:

Liz checked out at 96
I thought she’d make the ton
Unfortunately we now must crown
Her red faced idiot son

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 mbh 19 Sep 2022
In reply to veteye:

I couldn't be less of a royalist, but I do like McGough's poem. I have a soft spot for him, ever since he came to my school (I think?) in the 70s and read his poem Missed, from which I remember:

out of work
divorced
usually pissed.

he aimed
low in life
and
missed.

 Enty 19 Sep 2022
In reply to veteye:

Did you miss this on the other thread?

You're angry that 'your' queen is dead
And you know that I don't care
You're angry that I don't recognise
Her 'rightful Son and Heir'
 

You're angry that I don't show 'respect'
To something I don't believe
You're angry that I have the freedom
To choose when I should grieve

You're angry, that unlike you,
I wasn't put upon this earth
To bow and scrape and know my place,
Like some medieval serf
 

You're Angry that somehow,
I'm allowed a point of view
You're angry when you realise
I don't agree with you
 

You're angry that I don't embrace
Your feudalistic rules
You're angry because you know that I despise
Such grovelling, fawning  fools
 

But you see, I am angry too
About so many different things
Born in a world of sycophants,
And all the grief it brings
 

I'm angry at the BBC, the Daily Mail,
The morons that they quote
The puerile propaganda
They're ramming down my throat
 

I'm angry that I'm mourning,
For a vision that has gone
Angry that we can't make a world
That works for everyone
 

I'm angry that we're still held back
By forelock tuggers such as you
Angry that you're wedded to your masters
And your own outdated view
 

I'm angry that you worship
The people at the top
Your whole world's an anachronism
It really has to stop.
 

Kevan Hughes

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In reply to veteye:

I'm waiting to see E.J. Thribb's thoughts.


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