The Carolean Era of King Charles The Third
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
All the world witnessed
The coronation of Charles;
On the sixth of May.
A ceremony
In Westminster Abbey.
Twenty Twenty Three.
By bishops ordained
As head of church and of state;
By ritual crowned.
As divine ruler.
Head of the Church of England;
A priestly status.
As British monarch,
King, Country, and Commonwealth;
Sworn allegiance.
Witnessed by nations,
To serve with dignity as
Royal Protector.
Defender of Faith
Of the British Empire;
A king now crowned.
A line of descent
From year of Ten Sixty Six:
The Norman Conquest.
To now the present,
In this our modern period;
A different era.
Ten centuries later,
And House of Windsor prevails;
In Restoration.
“Rule Britannia!”
Voices of Royalists sound.
“The Kingdom Yet Stands!”
The House of Windsor
In a Carolean reign,
With King Charles The Third.
The Union Jack
Is raised as royal standard;
Aloft in nations.
Many, too, assert,
By right of independence,
Their flags as banners.
Voices of freedom,
Beckoning nations uphold
Their native birthrights.
In this our era,
A new spirit is ushered;
Throughout all nations.
Voices of freedom,
Ringing throughout the world to…
Hail democracy.
Calling for changes.
Calling for reparations.
To ‘correct’ history.
Let all now witness:
This Carolean era
Is a transition.
From what was the past,
To current realities;
New nations rising.
With old ones falling.
The rise and fall of nations;
Contractually.
Brexit is symbol
Of the beginning of change;
Within Great Britain.
And all her regions,
For forms of reconstruction,
Within Parliament.
Times are a-changing
In the British Empire;
While Charles is crowned king.
What will succeed him,
Is now written in the wind;
In how to govern.
As people clamor,
Monarchies pay attention;
To strident voices.
Time for reflection,
On how history configures
New realities.
How changes take place
In different societies;
For their survival.
A firm prediction.
Britannia once ruled the waves.
Now the waves have changed.
The tides have also shifted,
as Britain faces history.
A royal history,
from William the First to
William, Regent.
The British crown transforming;
a thousand years having passed.
As heir to the throne,
William must consider
the consequences
of what the future might hold,
for the British monarchy.
Commonwealth nations
hunger for transformation;
beyond monarchy.
With legacies of slavery,
democracy they beckon.
This is projection
of what has not transpired;
but what may occur.
A royal house concluding,
with a king named William.
The course of history
has its own arc of justice
for societies.
Favoring the tides one way;
elsewhere, rendering turbulence.
With Charles now as king,
the Carolean era
marks a beginning;
perhaps a paradigm shift,
for new forms of government.
For restoration,
with a focus on healing.
On mending old wounds.
By right of constitution;
to restore Britain’s Good Will.
Time now, meanwhile,
To celebrate this era;
With King Charles The Third.
Long live this monarch,
In his Carolean reign.
God save his gracious kingship.
About this poem
On the sixth day of May, in the Year of Our Lord, two thousand and twenty three, following his ascension to the throne on September 10, 2022, His Royal Highness, Prince Charles of the United Kingdom and her colonies was crowned king in a regal ceremony at Westminster Abbey in Great Britain. The royal line of the United Kingdom hails back to December 25, 1066, with the crowning of William 1 of Normandy, known historically as William the Conqueror (1028-1087), as king of Great Britain, and with the beginning of the reign of the House of Norman, succeeded in the years that followed, up to the present, by the Houses of Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, Tudor, Stuart, Hanover; and, currently, by the House of Windsor. The Royal House of Windsor, previously named the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha prior to the twentieth century, has been the reigning royal house of the United Kingdom since 1901. With the death of the monarch, Elizabeth the Second, as queen of the United Kingdom, and queen of the Commonwealth Nations and territories, the Elizabethan age has come to an end and is now succeeded by The Carolean Age of Restoration, with the succession of her son, King Charles the Third to the throne in 2022, followed by his coronation in May 2023. This poem, composed while on a family vacation at Marbella del Caribe Oeste, located at el barrio del Cangrejo Arriba in the Carolina municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a celebration and an historic recognition of that succession, its place in history; and with a forecast that the Carolean era of ruling, over a stretch of time, will signal a dramatic transformation in the arts and, even more so, in the constitutional governance of the United Kingdom and her Commonwealth nations. Historically, the British monarchy began with William 1 as king. Is it destined to end historically with Prince William, son of King Charles and heir to the throne, as king? History will tell. God save the king! more »
Written on May 09, 2023
Submitted by karlcfolkes on May 09, 2023
Modified by karlcfolkes on May 24, 2023
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