History – it’s what seperates us from the dinosaurs. Here are my takes on the past from the comfort of the present – catch them now before they’re repeated. It’s also a place to park my poems on politics, because nothing ages quicker than current affairs.
Poems about America:
America, We Need to Talk
Breaking the News
Cattle Prattle
Dream On
Every Winner gets a Free Shave
Haunted Houses
The High Cost of Living
Last Man In
Momma Tongue
New Kid in Town
The Star-Spangled Manna
Succession
Transatlantic Cable 1 – The Wake
Transatlantic Cable 2 – Emigrants’ Song
Transatlantic Cable 5 – The Senator’s Speech
A Trip to the Country
Tumbleweed
War of Words
Your False True-Colours
Poems about the Ancient & Classical World:
Abiblos
Ancient & Modern
At the Sign of “The Manger”
Barrow Boy
Basilica Cistern
Before Year Zero
Brick for Brick
The Census of Quirinius
The Cherry, Then
The Counting Carol
Custodia Golgothae
Damnatio ad Bestias
Decline & Fall
Drowning in the Jordan
The Elephants of War
Et In Orcadia, Ego
Exotic Ice
A Few Hours Spare
Forty-Eight
Hierogryphs
The Holy Grail
Holy Innocents
Hoops & Smits
I Am the Artifact
In the Name of the Lord
In the Year of the Lord
Margarita Time
Musings on the Nature of Hadrian’s Wall
New Kid in Town
Of Lost & Found Cities
Pre-Decimal
Proctotryp
The Siren
Slum-Makers
The Triumph of the Magi
The True Cross
The Uncarved Block
Verses in Hades
Witnesses
Poems about History in General:
The Corkscrew of Fortune
Counting Forwards
Golden Ages Last For Ages
History Never Changes
The Inertia of Tradition
Insults are Written by the Winners
Missing Keepsakes
Month of Fertility
Mortal Remains
New Year’s Day
The Noble Art of Treachery
Shires Old & New
To the Future
Victus
Poems about the Middle Ages & Tudor times:
Adventures in Phantom Time
The Ballad of Evermore
Big Charters
Carcassong
Carcassonnet
Castles in the Air
The Cherry, Then
Clause 50
Double-Dip Sleep
Ecce Humanitas
Farewell, Athelstan
The Frost Fairs
The Good Life
Graves, Worms, & Epitaphs
Gunpowder, Fizzle, & Pop
Harvest Song
Hogwash
The Hollow Crown
Hoops & Smits
Jellyfishes
The Layman of Shalott
Licence to Crenellate
A Malady of Arms
No Man’s Pie is Freed from his Ambitious Finger
Ophelia’s Pharmacy
Quarter Days
A Recipe for Iron Gall Ink
The Sheriff of Chelsea
Shires Old & New
Slum-Makers
Spectacles
Tartan Tarts
To His Cold Mitress
To Niccolò
Via Metallum
White Rose, Red Leicester
Poems about Politics:
Backwards Flags
Balloteers
The Bogeyman
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office
Clause 50
Con Spiracy
Credo
Crew of the Revolution
The Dandelion International
The Deal
The Deep State of Fear
Deferred Divisions
Democracy in Action
Every Winner gets a Free Shave
First Past The Post
Flying the Flag
The Green Tree Anthem
Haram
Hercule or Hercules ?
The Hustings Shuffle
An Ideal Crony
James Somersett
The Jists & The Jets
Just Another Election Day
The Knockers
Lightfast
Lokomotiviy
Love Dreams & Blintzes
Mayday, Mayday !
Meet the New Boss
Mutiny on the Waves
The Noble Art of Treachery
Noughts & Crosses
One, Two, Three, Dead
The Only Lefty in Poundbury
The Only Poll That Matters
The Peasants are Revolting
Pencil on a String
A point is all that you can score
Preta-Manger
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
A Public Service Announcement
Referendum
Revolution of the Seasons
The Rigours of Indolence
Rosetta
Rue Britannia
Scratch a Lefty, Find a Hippo
The Singalong Song
Skew Left
The Slog
Soundtracks to the Revolution
The Star-Spangled Manna
The State of the Nation
Stop the Boats
Strange Bedfellows
The Strongman & The Weakman
Succession
Tina
The Tolpuddle Tree
Trigger Warning
Two Quid Ain’t Worth Tuppence These Days
Unto Those Who Have Shall be Given
Us Too ?
Value-Added Tax
The View from the Dock
We Choose to Go to the Moon & Do the Other Things
“We’re All In It Together”
Winning the Defeat
Your False True-Colours
Poems about Royalty:
Aves Republica
Blue Chip, Brown Bread
Charles the Last
De-rigging the Deck
God save the Queen (but the Devil take the Plebs)
Graves, Worms, & Epitaphs
A Hat that Lets the Rain in
The Hollow Crown
Horseguards
Jubilee
The Leech Clamps-On
Long to Reign o’er Us
Lying in State
Mate in One
The Merchantman Shanty
Oak Apple Day
On Her Majesty’s Service
The Only Lefty in Poundbury
Pretenders
Proper Charlies
Queen Bee
Royal Peculiar
Sorry, Elizabeth
Soundtracks to the Revolution
To the Future British Republic
Versificator Regis
White Rose, Red Leicester
Poems about the Twentieth Century:
Agit-Proper
Armistice Sunday Blues
Blown on the Windrush
The Canon of Carols
Castles in the Air
Christmas in the Desert
Collaterals
Con Spiracy
Crew of the Revolution
The Deal
Diesel
Fripperies
Ghost Town
Harvest Song
Jaxman
The Jists & The Jets
John Bull Jack
Jubilee
Lokomotiviy
Love Dreams & Blintzes
Mate in One
Monte Rosa
Mutiny on the Waves
The Opiate of the Masses
Pretenders
Red Like the Poppies
Reflections on the Imperial War Museum’s Great War Gallery
Royal Peculiar
Rue Britannia
Salient Thoughts
Slum-Makers
Sound Systems
Spasibo
Surplus Women
Value Added Tax
Y2 A-Okay
Poems about the Victorian age and the Enlightenment period:
America, We Need to Talk
April the 6th
Biblio Tech
Bottom of the Barrel
Brass-Cornered Boxes
…But Then Again, To Few To Mention
The Canon of Carols
Carol of the Robins
Crew of the Revolution
The Engineers’ Plot
Fishes & Physics
Fresh Pantoums, Only a Shilling !
The Frost Fairs
Gingerbread Dickens
Guising
The History of an Industrial Revolution, Located in a Parallel Universe
Hoops & Smits
Horseguards
Hounslow Fast & Hounslow Slow
James Somersett
Little Drummer Boy
Manifest Destiny
The Merchantman Shanty
A Most Spirited Turn of Play
Mrs Silver
My First Imperial Adventure
Oak Apple Day
Obey in All Things your Masters According to the Flesh
Outpost
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
Purinoia
Put out to Pasture
The Queen of the Cockles
Queen of the Silk Road
The Rigours of Indolence
Sacré Rouge
Shaggy Legs
Soffits Versus Crocketts
The Tolpuddle Tree
Train-Sporting
Transatlantic Cable 1 – The Wake
Transatlantic Cable 2 – Emigrants’ Song
Transatlantic Cable 3 – Slow News Days
Transatlantic Cable 4 – The Visionary
Transatlantic Cable 5 – The Senator’s Speech
Transatlantic Cable 6 – The Engineer
Transatlantic Cable 7 – The Businessmen
Transatlantic Cable 8 – Crafting the Cable
Transatlantic Cable 9 – Gutta-Percha
Transatlantic Cable 10 – Laying the Line
Transatlantic Cable 11 – Hooking the Cable
Transatlantic Cable 12 – The Telegraphists
Transatlantic Cable 13 – The Messages
Transatlantic Cable 14 – The Future
Uncharted
Wassail to the Puritan
Working-Class Absolution
You Bet Your Life
Poems about America:
Poems about the Ancient & Classical World:
Poems about History in General:
Poems about the Middle Ages & Tudor times:
Poems about Politics:
Poems about Royalty:
Poems about the Twentieth Century:
The Deal
Poems about the Victorian age and the Enlightenment period:
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