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Best Tenner Poems

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The Tale of Miss Jenny Prime
Let me tell you the story of Miss Jenny Prime,
who spent all of her days making everything rhyme.
It was thought she’d outgrow this strange childhood...

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Categories: tenner, funnynight, night, , cute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Halo
The music video is more or less a continuation to the poem. So please play it when cued in the poem text and continue enjoying...

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Categories: tenner, depression, drink, inspirational, love,
Form: Rhyme
Why I Gamble
The reason why I gamble,
I ought to tell the truth.
Those squalid tales I spun before…
Well, don’t go seeking proof.

The one about the heart op
And my...

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Categories: tenner, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Melanie
Disheveled and dirty she sat 
A guy walking by just spat 
It caught her off guard as she wiped it away 
Wanted to move but...

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Categories: tenner, character, courage, endurance, success,
Form: Rhyme
Winning the Lottery
Winning the Lottery

Yes, I dream of winning the Lottery,
Hitting the jackpot on a Saturday night.
Oh, it’s so wonderful to imagine,
So, I cross my fingers and...

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© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tenner, dream, funny, happy, holiday,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Day We Went To Hucknall
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THE DAY WE WENT TO HUCKNALL


The day we went to Hucknall, didn’t we have a lovely time.
So much so, I thought I would turn it...

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© Pat Dring  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tenner, adventure, appreciation, celebration, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Day We Went To Hucknall
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THE DAY WE WENT TO HUCKNALL


The day we went to Hucknall, didn’t we have a lovely time.
So much so, I thought I would turn it...

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© Pat Dring  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tenner, adventure, appreciation, celebration, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Edith's Hefty Handbag
Edith had been suffering from shoulder pain
She'd developed a stoop and only her left shoulder would sag
When she went to see her doctor
He put all...

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Categories: tenner, humor, humorous, woman,
Form: Rhyme
I Roll Bowl, Lawns I Know, Anti-Pestcontrol -Last Piece To Goblin Girl Trilogy
Breeders' Cannon Ball plays for days and decades even onto eras
Feeders on the bottom plus top down voodoo economics, no trickle
De-weeders? Why? Lawns are hype...

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Categories: tenner, absence, abuse, age, allah,
Form: Personification
Incompetent's Guide To Gift-Giving
I was in a bookshop the other week 
(I’m a bit of a second-hand bookshop freak.)
In the crafts and hobbies section I spied
an interesting Home-Made...

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Categories: tenner, birthday,
Form: Light Verse
Fragment
Staring in disbelief
Heart thumping
Pulse racing
Trying to speak
But unable to make a sound
Wondering if I am dreaming
It cannot be reality…
…Surely
Why me?
Why not me?
 No, there must...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tenner, money,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member So Didn'T Pedro Have a Brother
In continuation to the limerick "PEDRO THE PEDDLER" . . . : )

PEDRO’S BROTHER DIEGO . . . 

So . . . 

Didn’t Pedro have...

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Categories: tenner, brother, cousin, funny, satire,
Form: Couplet
Kids
As a dad of three I’ve got your measure
We love you protect you give us lots of pleasure
But……mums and dads aren’t as daft as you...

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Categories: tenner, childhood, daughter, family, father,
Form: Rhyme
Bombay Missiles
From the eyes of Shangri-la and words indited in bulletin
spoken by  bellwethers and imagery on broadcasts
Felt the passing of breaths and federation menace.

The scourge...

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Categories: tenner, death, depression, loss, places,
Form: Elegy
Forgotten Voices
Petes Story

Pete was 27 when his life changed forever
An honest man he lived life with endeavour
At 18 working as an apprentice and carving a life
At...

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Categories: tenner, health, life, sad, sociallife,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs