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Best Charles Dickens Poems

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Premium Member A Bawdier Charles Dickens
Yesterday I swear I saw Charles Dickens
His quaint style today would take a lickin' --
   So he's changed up the Dodger
  ...

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Categories: charles dickens, books, character, humor, identity,
Form: Limerick



Two Hundred Years Charles Dickens
Chuzzlewit Chuzzlewit
Nicolas Nickleby
Pickwick, Scrooge, Dombey
And more of their kind

Two hundred years, filled with
Dickensiania
Real, just like you:
It is all in the mind...

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Categories: charles dickens, anniversary,
Form: Double Dactyl
Premium Member Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
was said to be the pickings
of literature in the nineteenth century,
but I couldn't make it pass page three!...

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Categories: charles dickens, bereavement, books, funny, ,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member The City That Charles Dickens Loved
Let's stroll down the London old silent streets,
where the stones of cathedrals never age,
when the orange sun sets on the London Bridge,
and the grotesque, historical...

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Categories: charles dickens, dedication, lost love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Miss Amelia Havisham's Garden Shed
between the plant pots and the trays
the cobwebs had seen better days
and for all the wood and damp and soil
the smell was one of paint...

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Categories: charles dickens, death, garden, literature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Hourglass of Time
As I contemplate life
Through thick lenses glasses of the whiskey bottle
Is there life?
What is life, what is the lie, or even the truth?
Or is there...

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Categories: charles dickens, baseball, beautiful, childhood, christmas,
Form: Light Verse
Dickensian Dactyl
Squickleby Pickleby
Nicholas Nickleby
loses his Father and
feels quite forlorn.

Ralph his tight uncle a
disciplinarian
mean to the marrow
regards him with scorn.

Nicholas, penniless
uncompromisingly
works as a master where
boys take the...

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Categories: charles dickens, literature,
Form: Double Dactyl
Greatest Figures
Figures of immense reputation and popularity they were
Attracting public attention and admiration in the pursuit of their great works
Leaving behind them a legacy of some...

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Categories: charles dickens, history, work, history, work,
Form: Prose Poetry
Inferiority Complex
Although yours truly modest,
     the only personal issue
     I will lightly boast about
constitutes lingering
self worthlessness bred
if not...

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Categories: charles dickens, age, conflict, destiny, fate,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Recalled To Life
His heart ached as he looked at her
Her eyes had no sparkle
She walked ignorant of the fact
That her footsteps rocked his world
That she exuded sexuality
She...

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Categories: charles dickens, life, longing, passion,
Form: Free verse
Red Letter Day
London at its best
Is on a cold rain day
Shrouded around grey
Sat on board a red double Decker bus
In search of the roads paved with gold
As...

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Categories: charles dickens, life, rain, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Slim Pickins
Mr. Charles Dickens'
  Plots always thickened...

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Categories: charles dickens, literature,
Form: Clerihew
Dickensian Time
In Dickensian time 
Upon sunset hour
Overshadowing Thames
Is London Tower
Blackened cobble streets
Shimmer in the rain
Big Ben at Westminster
Chimes an eight bells refrain

At Euston Station
A passenger alights
On...

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Categories: charles dickens, places,
Form: Free verse
Ebenezer Scrooge
It's Christmas and my name is Ebenezer Scrooge.
I've been through a transformation that was huge.
When it came to people, I was selfish and mean.
I was...

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Categories: charles dickens, fantasy, holiday, christmas, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Somewhat Repetitive Fickle Foolish Footles
Overweight law enforcement official:
Whopper
Copper

Nickname for a rather pudgy Charles Dickens Character:
Whopper
Copper

Overweight Janitor:
Whopper 
Mopper

Big fat lie:
Whopper
Whopper

Lockjaw:
Chopper
Stopper

Highway Patrolman pulling over a Hell’s Angel:
Chopper
Stopper
 
Louis XVI banned the...

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Categories: charles dickens, funny, giggle, life, drug,
Form: Footle
Book: Shattered Sighs