To find all the poems about the Queen, too much?

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I've seen several now, I understand some will like them but I just feel it's all a bit OTT!
Here is the latest one I've seen...

This one by Joyce Grenfell is suitably no nonsense

If I should die before the rest of you,
Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone.
Nor, when I’m gone, speak in a Sunday voice,
But be the usual selves that I have known.
Weep if you must
Parting is hell.
But life goes on,
So sing as well.

And I like this one by Walt Whitman

Warm summer sun,
Shine kindly here,
Warm southern wind,
Blow softly here.
Green sod above,
Lie light, lie light.
Good night, dear heart,
Good night, good night.

Thats beautiful!

Oh, these and the "I've done my duty Paddington, now take me to my husband" thing. Is Paddington the Angel Of Death?

It makes me cringe. People are so desperate for likes and shares

Bloody awful drivel.
And I have not started to mourn. Never met the woman, she never touched my life.

Better to have an outlet (that you've chosen to come to) rather then post catty comments on the mass mourning threads? I for one am really pleased to see I'm not alone in being bewildered by all the ongoing grief being shared.
Can't say I've noticed much ongoing grief being shared much outside of mumsnet, but seems to be plenty of threads whinging about the coverage and poems, with posters eager to let us know how much more sophisticated they are than the 'plebs' who like this stuff.

No. Which is why I don’t write poetry and put it on the internet for everyone to see. I also can’t draw so I don’t do that either 😂

Of course people are entitled to express themselves however they choose, and they are entitled to display their creative efforts before an audience. And we, as the audience, are entitled to have opinions on said creations.

It’s total shite, just like the stuff about her being the nations grandmother and crying over marmalade sandwiches. People are trying to outdo each other with it, I’m convinced some must be trolling. I really can’t take them seriously.

Is Paddington the Angel of Death?...

Hahahaa
That made me laugh. 😂

As for the Poems, I say as PPs have said, just scroll on by.

I really am sad about the Queen dying. But these ghastly poems! I'm so shocked that friends of mine have shared them on FB. Like, honestly, shocked.

The only person who should be writing and publishing a poem about the Queen is Simon Armitage.

The reality is that people of all skill levels have always turned to poetry, music and art as ways to reflect on or express their feelings about events both private and public.

We (mostly) only see those from the past that met the bar of what you refer to as 'poetry' but when you look through old archives of letters, circulars, newspapers (particularly local ones) etc you see that this has been the case for many, many generations.

I can't get worked up about this. Not my cup of tea at all, but people using creativity, whether they're any good at it or not, as a way of expressing their feelings is a normal human reaction.

@JassyRadlett I don’t disagree that it is something people do. I suppose the internet gives a much wider audience now, so anyone who’s brave enough to put their creations ‘out there’ is hopefully resilient enough to bear any resulting criticism.

I hope he will. I love his stuff.

Just realised Armitage is still Poet Laureate so I imagine there might be an expectation that he write something!

There is plenty of bad poetry out there, this is just the bad poetry hated by the middle classes as opposed to the bad poetry they like.

But I tend to think that we wouldn't have good poetry without the bad, and people are also a little snobbish about sentimentality at times.

I think the problem is, the ones I have read have been really terribly written poems.

I also do not understand the Paddington thing.

You used to see quite a lot more in magazines and newspapers as well. Usually it went by an editor and the really bad stuff didn't make it, but it would all be very unfashionable now.

I think it stopped when poetry started to become much more abstract. People's plain feelings and observations in verse form became something to titter over.

Or maybe others could be more tolerant, shrug their shoulders, recognise it's a pretty human reaction to a significant event and move on with their lives without feeling the need to criticise amateur efforts.

Life's just a series of choices about how we all want to be in other's lives. I'm fine with criticising the works of professional poets, authors, artists, whomever. That's a different category of work. But someone who is trying to share their feelings through art, however clumsily executed? I don't get the thrill in criticising or excoriating it.

Paddington the grim reaper or something leading her to the afterlife. She was the head of the Church of England. People seem to have forgotten that.

Yanbu. Every single one I have seen shared has been utterly dire.

Spotted in a local buy and sell group this morning

I do hope that's a pisstake!

Peace of my heart

I'll be damned as a heretic, but I find them hilarious. They've been giving me many a quiet laugh, albeit I'm avoiding Facebook and keeping my real opinions on current events mainly to myself. 'Grief Watch' on Twitter is also providing some much-needed lighthearted moments. Right now, it's inescapable: I can't even go online and place an order for a dress without being eyeballed by a black strapline across the top of every website proclaiming how sad and heartbreaking everything is.

A bit of humour is sorely lacking in these bleak days, and that's even before last Thursday. Once upon a pre-cancel culture time, it used to be a tool British people typically used to deal with things. But these wouldn't be so funny were these ridiculous verses not (apparently) intended as deeply serious.

I'm laughing at the comparison of Paddington to the Grim Reaper. I can only hope the continual replication of his image isn't making more money for the unspeakable Jeremy Clarkson ...

I can’t say I get a thrill out of laughing at people’s creative endeavours. I just get…well, a laugh out of it. Maybe I should keep my opinions to myself though 😬