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Tuppence Poems - Poems about Tuppence

Premium Member BALLAD OF ELEANOR RIGBY
...Her Mam did for the rich Wool toffs, days chocka block with chores. Her fella was a plazzy gent— A few jars opened doors. A proper jarg johnny he used; he thought hi’self r......

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Categories: tuppence, music,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member AUSTERE TIMES
...Milk bottles we would rinse out and return. Pop bottles take back to claim the tuppence. Kellogg’s cartons collected for the kids To cut and paste and learn creative art. Unburnt cinders reclaim......

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Categories: tuppence, life,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Tuppence a Bag
...Bluebird, it's cold outside today So be it, you just stay In here with me, I'll keep you warm And wrap you up inside my form Rest your wings within my love While snowflakes falling from above ......

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Categories: tuppence, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
Spiritual Healing For An Over Fifty
...When once upon a time one had to knock at your friends door to see if they were in because your parents had put a cap on the phone bill to stop you ringing  .... When you recycled your bottles of po......

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Categories: tuppence, freedom, growing up, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Usefulness of Comeuppance
...Comeuppance is a useful word when confronted by a beggar nerd Give him no more than tuppence a fitting and proper comeuppance......

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Categories: tuppence, language, money, word play,
Form: Couplet



Charity
...Tuppence to my name Tuppence after the bills are Paid Tuppence for A Thought Tuppence was a lot of money Back in the day When we were young Tuppence was a lot of money For salad creams......

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Categories: tuppence, blessing, courage, growth, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marley Plays the Bottom Line - With Apologies To Charles Dickens
...Oh, don’t flatter me with presents from the Ghost of Christmas Past. Tis the season for nostalgia, but those feelings never last. It’s a gift-wrapped empty promise not worth tuppence on the stree......

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Categories: tuppence, allegory, christmas,
Form: Lyric
Smugglers Cave
...There was an old stripper called Jacky, who's act was deemed rather tacky. But she got her comeuppance when, out of her tuppence, fell six pipes, fifty fags and some baccy.......

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Categories: tuppence, humorous, rude,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Troll At Speckle Bridge
...There was a time throughout this land when all was well and kind. Where Wood Sprites, Fairies and Pixie dust were not that hard to find. But times have changed with the forest quiet ......

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Categories: tuppence, adventure, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Falling In Love With a Writer Is a Faulty Design
...Falling in Love with a Writer is a Faulty Design We see things that other females don’t pay a tuppence to. Like a half-burned cigarette tail, Your osculation of deep, dense rouge— A secret trust......

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Categories: tuppence, beautiful, beauty, love, love
Form: Ballade
S, J
...Shoeshine Joe. Thruppence for a shoeshine, that's what Joe will shout. Tuppence for a bulling up as he smiles and looks about. Drumming up trade these days is harder than before his dad was a l......

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Categories: tuppence, children, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Zing Is the Thing - a Homily
...Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, But Whiskey makes you frisky. Clerihews and epigrams are fine but Do not tell these to one lost in love Except when you mean to cheer up one Fevered with te......

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Categories: tuppence, character, friendship, inspiration,
Form: Abecedarian
Just Desserts
...There was a crook named Jum Tuppence Who stole from people of meager substance. He tried it on an undercover cop And was caught right on the spot. Now Jum is due to get his comeuppance.......

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Categories: tuppence, humor,
Form: Limerick
A Rich Man's Advice
...I’ll tell you all a story, about when I was just a lad, And me Mum and Dad were battling with the little that we had. Dad was working at Yallourn and would travel there each day, On his motorbike......

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Categories: tuppence, humor, mum,
Form: Rhyme
Equal
...a day's work by lunchtime another one by bed her thoughts they keep running around in her head the world won't address her or listen at all to her female opinion 'tain't worth bugger all if n......

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Categories: tuppence, for her, women,
Form: Rhyme

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