It's true that you can designate
A nation or perhaps a state
With the word we know as 'commonwealth'
In particular if it
Is founded in law and so sits
United for the good of common health,
One in which authority
Depends on a democracy
And is so vested in its people's hands,
A republic so to speak
In which both the strong and weak
Ideally share the same rights in the land.
But when the word has a "C"
That's capital the word could be
Referring to the one time English State
When from 1649,
For about a decade's time,
There was no King after the last king's fate!
Or the Commonwealth could be
The state made up of Kentucky,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
And the other place I guess,
Also found in the U.S.,
Known for the name Virginia!
Or a federal union
Of states like the ones that are in
The dusty land of old Australia
Where you find the kangaroo
And people say "G'day" to you
And guys are "blokes" and girls are known as "sheila."
And speaking of that Great South Land
It is itself part of a band
Of countries that make up The Commonwealth
A group of lands with common ground
For most were at one time so found
To be part of the British Commonwealth!
By Kerin Gedge
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