Although of English pedigree
of colonisation I ardently disagree
The stiff upper lip and cup of tea
farcical ritual that makes me pee
Royalty so wrong as we pay a huge fee
they should all abdicate and set us free!
Australia should be a republic, let us be!
Separation from warmongers a vital key
Can back all this up with a uni degree
welcome debate of this claim with me
I’ve been on the 24 bus route… ah, memories 🙂
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Very well attempted.
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I live in Trafalgar Square,
With four lions to guard me.
Fountains and statues all over the place,
And The Metropole staring me right in the face!
I’ll own it’s a trifle draughty,
But I look at it this way, you see,
If it’s good enough for Nelson,
It’s quite good enough for me!
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Not mine, I hasten to point out. Something from my parents (my father was something of an Anglophile) that suddenly popped into my head.
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lol .. these are your true gems, these spontaneous poems to our mediocre posts!
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The stiff upper lip and cup of tea
farcical ritual that makes me pee
I love irreverence!!!!
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then try being a bit kinder please?
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Do you still wish me well if I confess to checking out Kate’s pictures? I’m not too much on the rest, except the Queen, of course. 😀
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would always wish you well Oneta, I like that we all have diverse interests and can accept contrary views … 🙂
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Whoopee! Yippee!
You are positively
the Queen Bee of poetry!!! 🙂
HUGS!!! 🙂
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Hurrah, come the revolution … I’m with that, let’s go.
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borders and nationalism endanger world peace!
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I’m not for royalty,
Only cake and tea 🙂
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then you are most welcome anytime you want to pop over Paula 🙂
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I had the same thought in mind. I need my cup of tea but no royalty!
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Kate, your passion shows in your writing. I truly respect that.
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Ahhh! You can’t change the past, Kate. You can only use knowledge to improve the future.
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Haha! Love this Kate. We still suffer from the colonial hangover.
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yes we all really need to shake it off, doesn’t do us any good … we need to mature and separate!
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Very well said, Kate and for how long all this royalty. When do we leave this farcical life which is so much a delusion.
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That picture was a while ago… I’m looking at some of those cars there. 🙂
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yes it says one of my old photos … was a slide I had digitised 🙂
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I know, it’s great to see pictures like that. Remember how things were.
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and wonder whether we’ve moved forward or backward 🙂
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That depends greatly on your point of view and how you measure it… A car travelling at 200mph can be moving backwards if you consider the spin of the Earth.
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lol great scientific spin 😉
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Lol… Great pun 😀
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need to encourage fun 🙂
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Totally… Where would the fun be… Without. Fun. Hmmm 😂
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