Long Tuppence Poems
Long Tuppence Poems. Below are the most popular long Tuppence by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Tuppence poems by poem length and keyword.
The Troll At Speckle Bridge
There was a time throughout this land
when all was well and kind.
Where Wood Sprites, Fairies and Pixie dust
were not that hard to find.
But times have...
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Categories:
tuppence, adventure, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
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,...
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Categories:
tuppence, humor, mum,
Form:
Rhyme
Mary Poppins Makes a Call - a Poem For Children
(The audience for this is small children who have seen the movie.)
Mary Poppins Makes a Visit
By Elton Camp
When Mary decides she wants a job
Other applicants of a chance will rob
She causes a strong wind to...
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Categories:
tuppence, childrenchildren, old, children, money, old, time,
Form:
Rhyme
The Moving Target
I am the eponymous A. Floating-Voter!
I do know my mind, but I’ll follow the pack …
My vote’s up for sale now, to the highest bidder.
Yes! What was that offer, sir? You at the back?
One...
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Categories:
tuppence, funny, political, satire, me,
Form:
Quatrain
Life's But a Stage
Life's a cruel stage
for the sensitive soul
who must suffer in whole,
the jeers and the babble
of an ignorant rabble
Who, paying their
tuppence for cheap
balcony seats,
spew their bile,
words so vile
as to make
a stone weep
The reviews
of the critics,
far...
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Categories:
tuppence, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
Falling In Love With a Writer Is a Faulty Design
Falling in Love with a Writer is a Faulty Design
We see things that other females
don’t pay a tuppence to.
Like a half-burned cigarette tail,
Your osculation of deep, dense rouge—
A secret trusted only by two.
With our own...
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Categories:
tuppence, beautiful, beauty, love, love hurts, romance, symbolism,
Form:
Ballade
For Tuppence
Born 31st July 2014 – Passed 16th July 2025
When shadows fell and nights grew long..
You came into my life.. a light, a song.
So soft, so sweet, with joy so true..
The world felt brighter just with...
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Categories:
tuppence, best friend, dog, heartbroken, heaven, loss, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Zing Is the Thing - a Homily
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder,
But Whiskey makes you frisky.
Clerihews and epigrams are fine but
Do not tell these to one lost in love
Except when you mean to cheer up one
Fevered with temporary amourous setbacks.
Gift...
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Categories:
tuppence, character, friendship, inspiration,
Form:
Abecedarian
BALLAD OF ELEANOR RIGBY
Her Mam did for the rich Wool toffs,
days chocka block with chores.
Her fella was a plazzy gent—
A few jars opened doors.
A proper jarg johnny he used;
...
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Categories:
tuppence, music,
Form:
Ballad
At Work
Picasso painted me ugly.
Two lips slung over a rusted hanger.
One eyebrow burnt for attention's sake.
Let's tell Grandma how much fun we had today.
Picasso is still at work.
Monet swallowed your stupidity.
Five teeth missing and nary a...
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Categories:
tuppence, introspection
Form:
Free verse
Spiritual Healing For An Over Fifty
When once upon a time one had to knock at your friends door to see if they were in because your parents had put a cap on the phone bill to stop you ringing ....
When...
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Categories:
tuppence, freedom, growing up, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
A Tinker's Dam
Through the Dark Woods crooked pathways
Out beyond the crooked mile
Lived a Tinker who tended the crooked river dam
And He wore a crooked smile
He tinked til the wee hours of morning
Upon finest jewels of luster...
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Categories:
tuppence, anger,
Form:
Ballad
Marley Plays the Bottom Line - With Apologies To Charles Dickens
Oh, don’t flatter me with presents from the Ghost of Christmas Past.
Tis the season for nostalgia, but those feelings never last.
It’s a gift-wrapped empty promise not worth tuppence on the street,
Or a...
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Categories:
tuppence, allegory, christmas,
Form:
Lyric
Equal
a day's work by lunchtime
another one by bed
her thoughts they keep running
around in her head
the world won't address her
or listen at all
to her female opinion
'tain't worth bugger all
if not for her mother
if one she has...
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Categories:
tuppence, for her, women,
Form:
Rhyme
S, J
Shoeshine Joe.
Thruppence for a shoeshine, that's what Joe will shout.
Tuppence for a bulling up as he smiles and looks about.
Drumming up trade these days is harder than before
his dad was a lad and ran this...
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Categories:
tuppence, children, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
A Pirate's Morph: Soul To Hurt
A tuppence, old chap, grant this whiskied SOUL
Whose mind wears weak and heart grows SOUR
Take not from thee for what surely is OURS
To quench a lad's thirst at this haunted HOUR
And drown from our swarthy...
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Categories:
tuppence, imagination
Form:
Rhyme
Charity
Tuppence to my name
Tuppence after the bills are
Paid
Tuppence for A Thought
Tuppence was a lot of money
Back in the day
When we were young
Tuppence was a lot of money
For salad...
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Categories:
tuppence, blessing, courage, growth, thanks,
Form:
Rhyme
My Dad
Jackie
My father was a farmer’s boy
who loved to work the land,
but many children came to him
and wages weren’t grand.
So he went to be a miner
and toil beneath the ground
to feed and clothe his family,
to keep...
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Categories:
tuppence, father
Form:
Rhyme
AUSTERE TIMES
Milk bottles we would rinse out and return.
Pop bottles take back to claim the tuppence.
Kellogg’s cartons collected for the kids
To cut and paste and learn creative art.
Unburnt cinders reclaim from last night’s fire
And add...
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Categories:
tuppence, life,
Form:
Blank verse
WARMING WARNING
Our climate is warming
The speed is alarming
Could this be a warning
Our greenhouse gases rise
Polluting worldwide skies
Now comes a surprise
The planet is heating
From our carbon burning
And we’re still not learning
We aim for personal gain
And simply...
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Categories:
tuppence, environment, pollution,
Form:
Rhyme
Rich-Heart
For Richard Lamoureux's "Any line" contest.
Richard Seale-d Door's line: slammed shut are the doors in "A mind made up".
You told me before
slammed shut are the doors
when my love for you went astray
I...
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Categories:
tuppence, romantic,
Form:
Rhyme
Limerick Croises: Once Our Senorita From Sevilla - 11
Limerick croisés : Once our Senorita from Sevilla – 11
Once our Senorita from Sevilla
Shed tears for Don Carlo in Opera
Touched by Verdi in heart
Present in Phillip’s Court
She could give her life for Isabella !
Oh !...
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Categories:
tuppence, humor,
Form:
Limerick