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Best Dime Poems

Below are the all-time best Dime poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dime poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Devils Deadly Dime
Devils deadly dime

The sign said no grown-up at the playground.
Tripping on a penny, like a mime!
My hand is in my pocket with the dime I...

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Categories: dime, abuse, day, irony, judgement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member The Library of Trust and Hope
The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but...

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Categories: dime, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Bio:Closing Time,Memories



       CLOSING TIME AT THE PUB


The joy, the camaraderie, the smoke.
The great ale, my great friends in Chicago.
Old Town,...

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Categories: dime, chicago, friendship, memory, mental
Form: Bio
Premium Member The Robin and the Sparrow
Oh if I were a true poet
one that could write a good rhyme
I would compose a few ones
and earn myself a dime.
 
Why, I'd write...

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Categories: dime, bird, red,
Form: Light Verse
Categories: dime, society, war,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member A Man Under Stress, a Collaboration With Francis Crasto
My appreciation Francis Crasto for allowing me to collaborate with you as your 'psychiatrist' on ‘A MAN UNDER STRESS’- A great sequel to your recent...

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Categories: dime, humor, rap, stress,
Form: Rhyme
My Wish
Hello Ms. Johnson, I’m sure this sounds strange
our mutual friend, said you need a change.
She told me how hard you work every day, 
come home...

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Categories: dime, beach, children, fun, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Woven Moments
Silent journey
I ride with you O Mother Earth
On the wings of time and space
I feel you cradle me in your arms
Lifting me high above you
To...

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Categories: dime, beauty, celebration, creation, earth,
Form: Free verse
Folly
with passion’s brilliant mediocrity
we sparked a flame with tragedy
it was our common fantasy

what a candid lie we chose to sing


while watching worlds were turning
we rubbed...

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Categories: dime, betrayal,
Form: Lyric
Are There Any of Us Left
The cruel streets I walked made me sad
I looked not at him, nor at her
Those who passed me by, gutter grads
I felt at home among...

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Categories: dime, urban, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Courtship
He worked at the local newspaper office.
I worked for his employer’s wife as a mother’s helper.
He had served his apprenticeship 
and was now a full...

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Categories: dime, lovetime, me, time,
Form: Narrative
A Midsummer Night's Beach
When I was a girl, still on the island
I’d sit in the sand
and brood
and revel
in what I thought was utter enlightenment
a teenage rebel
with dime-store refinement
We...

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Categories: dime, beauty, color, creation, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Rare Find
Next item up for bid, a rare coin of mine
Is one 1894 s silver Liberty dime
Only 24 of these coins were minted that year
That is,...

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Categories: dime, business, fantasy, history, money,
Form: Rhyme
Exerpts From Hitler's Diary 1941
EXERPTS   FROM   HITLER’S   DIARY   1941

"I never travel without my diary, one should always have something sensational to...

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Categories: dime, funnywar, crazy, june, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Black Diamond Child
Black Diamond Child


Black diamond child with hopeless eyes
In your frightful future your talent lies

No worth is greater than watching you grow 
To a world whose...

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Categories: dime, black african american, child,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs