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Best Threepence Poems


A Rich Man's Advice
I’ll tell you all a story, about when I was just a lad,
And me Mum and Dad were battling with the little that we had.
Dad was working at Yallourn and would travel there each day, 
On his motorbike and sidecar, just to earn his weekly...

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Categories: threepence, humor, mum,
Form: Rhyme
Plague Presence
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Planetary conjunction, behold catastrophe, o’ trembling earthquake
Afore thy outbreak, for terror has struck – omens of bad luck
Of rats aboard large ships of trade
Black Death, Black Sea, what becometh thee?
Rain of fire be seen, plague-ridden body on board
We have reached thy port, yet to attest,...

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Categories: threepence, children, history,
Form: Free verse

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