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Best Meccano Poems

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


Meccano Number One
Start life in a pushchair
end up in a wheelchair
that
doesn't sound fair to me

I'd like a parachute.

but we rise as we fall
keep our eyes
on the ball...

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Categories: meccano, crazy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Lest We Forget
I remember those days when just a kid,
the old ten shilling note, and the odd quid.*
Teddy boys in their drain pipes, fur collars
smelling of nicotine,...

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Categories: meccano, nostalgia, school, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
Age of Ten
AGE OF TEN

	Way back then when I was ten 
Things were so very different then
I wrote with ink in a fountain pen
Whenever we could we...

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© Mary Grace  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: meccano, childhood, children, nostalgia,
Form: Blank verse
A Touch of Nostalgia Fitton Hill Story Group Short Version
A TOUCH OF NOSTALGIA (Fitton Hill Story Group)
When we were little we would all gather          ...

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Categories: meccano, introspection, kid, life, memory,
Form: Verse
Toys of Yesteryear
Toys from Yesteryear

Sitting very quietly, looking at a blank page
Prompted me to pen a poem about toys that were all the rage
I had some wooden...

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Categories: meccano, childhood, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To Poetry
A poet lost for words with writer’s block and barrage

		Playing with Lego in Copenhagen

Anderson’s mermaid hard on the rock

		Casting away the human soul

The artist failing...

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Categories: meccano, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Candles Nightlights Recited
CANDLES&NIGHTLIGHTS
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.
Dripping setting from Sunday's roast,
spread so...

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Categories: meccano, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Candles and Nightlights
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.

Dripping setting from Sunday's roast,
spread so...

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Categories: meccano, family, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Memories Fresh As Yesterday
CANDLES&NIGHTLIGHTS
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.
Dripping setting from Sunday's roast,
spread so...

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Categories: meccano, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Good Old Days In Deed
CANDLES and NIGHTLIGHTS
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.

Dripping setting from Sunday's...

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Categories: meccano, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memories Made of This
Candles & nightlights 
flickering bright
blackout curtains 
       shutting out the moonlight
snuggle down cosy 
     ...

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Categories: meccano, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Past Times 10
CANDLES&NIGHTLIGHTS
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.
Dripping setting from Sunday's roast,
spread so...

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Categories: meccano, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Favourite Time As a Child
When I look back on my childhood
the pre-school days were the best
living as an only child in the country
although adopted was treated as a guest

In...

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Categories: meccano, childhood, memory, preschool,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Growing Up
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.

Dripping setting from Sunday's roast,
spread so...

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Categories: meccano, childhood,
Form: Rhyme

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