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Best Nickel Poems

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


A Nickel and a Dime
I only have a nickel and a dime
I can't take you out for lunch
Are you still mine?
I cannot buy you pretty rings of gold
To compliment...

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Categories: nickel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Food For Thought - With Chris Green
Lyrics start 0.05 - timed to the music

Pack your bags dear, there’s a Croc near
And he’s creeping, through the night
With his eye on - on...

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Categories: nickel, food, health, scary,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member White Devil
White Devil

Call it what you want!
I call it, his favorite season hunt...
Two hoofs imprinted near the riverfront.
Echoes calling my soul with a loud, ferocious grunt.

I...

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Categories: nickel, absence, beauty, depression, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Evil Deeds -
The spirit that remembers the taste of blood
                 ...

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Categories: nickel, dark, deep,
Form: Alliteration
Daddy's Dime
I was three the first time i remember 
seeing mamas bedroom walls 
springtime colors on her quilt 
Though it really could of been December 

I...

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Categories: nickel, child abuse,
Form: Bio



Premium Member Another Morning
The sun poured through the window of my attic room,
      shafts of sunlight- spotlights on the wood floor;
I got out...

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Categories: nickel, childhood,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sometimes My Words
they’re sensitive my words
exposed wires
like veins hidden 
under the scars
of too many verbal attacks 
like swarms of vampire bats 
who puncture the night
turn the downpour...

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Categories: nickel, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member O' What Is War But the Mad Child of Greed and Hate
O' What Is War But The Mad Child Of Greed And Hate


By uppity arrogance the mouse challenges the lion
And his haughty crown is fused nickel...

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Categories: nickel, abuse, conflict, death, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Remember When
I suppose I'm revealin' my age as I compose this little ditty,
But as I compare costs today with yesteryear I exclaim, "What a pity!"
Gas cost...

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Categories: nickel, humorous, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pure Circumstance
God knows each heart that walks the streets, and then,     
each sense of guilt caught up in false pretense.  ...

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Categories: nickel, people, poverty, social, society,
Form: Sonnet
The Old Fart Song
THE OLD FART SONG
(sing to the tune of "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys")

Verse one:

Old men ain't easy to love and...

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Categories: nickel, age, love, men,
Form: Light Verse
The Prophesy of Me
These Hallowed halls
Frequented by myth and griffin
Whose presence Guards these priceless minds
 Protecting the unwritten novels
M C Squared and ingenious thoughts
The prophesy of zero one

This...

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Categories: nickel, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soda Fountains and Ice Cream Parlors
It was the Main Street hangout for the teenagers of its day.
For a nickel they could dream as they heard the jukebox play!
Wispy white metal...

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Categories: nickel, nostalgia
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Drug Store
Driving through a small mining town
Angle parking in front of an old drug store
Memories flashed back to my childhood
Those days are gone forever more

Sitting on...

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Categories: nickel, nostalgia, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Roses and Wine
A penny for your thoughts
  with inflation it’s a nickel
The longer you go on
  the more I find you fickle

You looked sincere, so...

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Categories: nickel, romance, rose, satire, wine,
Form: Rubai

Book: Reflection on the Important Things