Best Shillings Poems
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 would build a den
And I loved to help my dad in the gar......
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Categories:
shillings, childhood, children, nostalgia,
Form:
Blank verse
Death Eternal
...Smith and Wesson’s cool steel kisses my right temple. I cock the hammer. The slow clicking of the cylinder’s turn is amplified through the barrel into my ear. Finger resting on the trigger; and I re......
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Categories:
shillings, evil,
Form:
Prose
I Was Becoming a Bad Child
...Cunning like foxes,greedy as hyenas,they looked at me;
With widened eyes and wet lips,ready to grab me,like an angry lioness;
And tear me like a beast and swallow me like the shark that swallowed ......
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Categories:
shillings, abuse, anger,
Form:
Free verse
Toothless
...TOOTHLESS in 1927
Toothles her tail began to switch,
Tuppy said “you’re too old, just stay a bit,”
Tuppy rode away to where,
A knocking stick a Roo would snare,
Roo hides pegged upon the grou......
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Categories:
shillings, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
Shimmering
...I walked with heavy childish feet
Where galaxies of white Chervil towered
And asphalt ribbons did dance on air
dividing fields of early summer flowers
On that shimmering Tournant road
from Tyn......
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Categories:
shillings, childhood, summer,
Form:
Past Times 2
...Five stones
closing times
radiograms and
seventy-eights
school caps
sticklebacks
saturday flicks,pooh sticks
Charabancs
steam train......
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Categories:
shillings, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
I Wish I Were Nicolas Cage
...Well, he's goofy and gangly and thin up on top
And his real last name once began with a "Cop"
But I don't give a hoot about all of that
'Cause his box office draw's made his wallet grow fat.
If......
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Categories:
shillings, celebrity, crazy, film, poetry,
Form:
Quatrain
Bob Cratchit
...Scrooge's Clerk, Bob Cratchit
Earned his paycheck, and hopes to match it
He needs to buy his Christmas dinner
But Scrooge just pinched his shillings thinner!
___________......
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Categories:
shillings, christmas, people,
Form:
Clerihew
Limerick Crochetes Portrait of a Dead Brit Nazi Lord of the Lollypoppians
...Limerick crochetés: Portrait of a Dead Brit Nazi, Lord of the Lollypoppians
Part One
Once an uppity man from Poland
Wed a stumpy wench from High Golan
Result: mangy mongre......
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Categories:
shillings, satire,
Form:
Limerick
Salad Days
...Many can recall and recollect
the halcyon moments of carefree abandon
When juvenile limbs climbed upon cedar limbs
or squatted under oak or baobab shades
while languishing in youthful salad day......
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Categories:
shillings, absence,
Form:
Verse
Fairy Night, Morning Gold
...~The Evil Fairy And the Vengeful Leprechaun~
Late at Night while the chickadees go quiver
A fairy of the forest has fastened to her heart
A bog-reed arrow, white wash dipped in flint
She dances yes ......
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Categories:
shillings, abuse, conflict, corruption, evil,
Form:
Free verse
Throwing the Last Stone
...the episode took place near the sewer
the boy lay lifeless on the stiff ground
his white clothes dipping in red
a rowdy mob encircled him
like vultures awaiting the surrender of a fighting spiri......
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Categories:
shillings, funeral,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Wonderland II: The Hatter's Tale
...
Morning At Work
Impaired by his tremors
And a troublesome cough,
He turned fur into felt
Before cooling things off.
He drooled once or twice
And grew cold in his bones,
But he sha......
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Categories:
shillings, drink, fantasy, imagery, literature,
Form:
Narrative
Two Lenses
...When I was young and had zero dollars to spend
Grandpa's skiff with succulent mangoes I loved to tend
With view of City canal, flowing not far from home
Near thoroughfare with perfect patrons; few......
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Categories:
shillings, boat, childhood, community, freedom,
Form:
Bio
Transport Costs
...Its My car
Thousands of miles together we travelled
maps then a sat nav journeys unravelled
collected all sorts, even went to the tip
bus into town, no in the car I'll just nip
MOT services ......
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Categories:
shillings, car, depression, humor, loss,
Form:
Ballad