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Best Nickel And Dime Poems

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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 and dime, 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 and dime, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
We Have Never Been In Love With Each Other At the Same Time
You were in love with me
While I'd tell you I didn't love you,
And you continued on for a space...
Until I finally fell in love with...

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Categories: nickel and dime, forgiveness, husband, life, lost
Form: Rhyme
Clip Joints
You can give up that nasty habit if you try.
Just think of all the things your money will buy.
Each one of those houses is a...

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Categories: nickel and dime, loss, people, social, house,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Slack For Sale
One cent, two cents,
	Nickel and dime
Two bits, four bits,
	A dollar this time.

Ship me a grasshopper
	Do me a crime
Fly like a whippoorwill 
	O'er Anaheim....

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Categories: nickel and dime, bird, flying, fun, money,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member No Money Blues
Tin can pan alley cat man
                   ...

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Categories: nickel and dime, culture, depression, environment, loneliness,
Form: Haiku
Professors of the School of Hard Knocks
Some people are of the belief, that teacher come from one place
From a school or university, with degrees all over the wall
Know great big fancy...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nickel and dime, educationschool, teacher, old, time,
Form: I do not know?
Who's To Blame
We blame the white man for all our misfortunes
We're doing the best we can
So damn it! If all else fails
Blame the white man
Ignorance prevails.

Standing on...

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Categories: nickel and dime, black african american, environment,
Form: Free verse
Between the Clouds
A slimmer glimmer of hope these days.
With thoughts misconstrued and mind's in a haze.
We look for help without reaching out.
For any chance we've got is...

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Categories: nickel and dime, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Remembering Scrooge
When I was in pigtails, years younger than him,
my big brother’s bedroom was filled to the brim
New comic books, from the small corner store
would light...

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Categories: nickel and dime, brother, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Bit-Coin Billionaire

You made a lot of money
selling lewd photos of nude
Then you parlayed your profits
into cyber surfing —  
triple X cinema ***** crude
Nasty video sex...

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Categories: nickel and dime, corruption, money, truth, wisdom,
Form: Ode
You Are Rich
Festered lament maddens me
Why must the despair of my heart’s desire
Truly enlighten me? 
I rested among the sick and lame
And found myself no different from...

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Categories: nickel and dime, absence, analogy, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Too Distant Woods
My soul started yearning
And my feet grew all restless
To see the old hometown
And the place I was born.

Out back of my old house  ...

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© J. Summers  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nickel and dime, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Her Prime
Springtime easing into summertime
Euphoric she was in her prime
She had mountains to climb
Dreams of a lifetime
Magnificent and sublime

T’was when she ran into a mime 
In...

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Categories: nickel and dime, adventure, freedom, happiness, passion,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Fictional Poetic Thoughts
Writing fiction 
Has no restriction
Unlike the journal writer on the list 
Asking ‘what is this’ 
Raising their fist 
Not allowing anything to be missed 
Dependent...

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Categories: nickel and dime, adventure, america, feelings, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things