Sunday, 29 May 2022

the queen

 the queen


through all of the mottled times

the inviolability of your nobility

royal from balmoral to the windsor 

of britain’s multicultural soup 

   ‘gentlemen the queen’

has rung down the ages

through all the wars and the strife

she was also a wife 

through the pages of her family album 

torn a little in sepia perhaps

slipping a little our image of those images

scion an anachronism 

at the end of the knighting sword

and yet good lord 

we have the elegance of her regency 

the white gloves asking of power

can you form a government 

on behalf of my people

i give you permission

to kiss hands 


the moist eyes of the people

look at the union jack bunting fluttering

and how we cheer her to the rafters

for all our family ever afters

she has always been there

uniquely ours


ladies and gentlemen i give you 

her majesty the queen 


let the children feast












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