Pennies from Heaven
Lay me down in open skies
Put the pennies on my eyes
Wrapped in my suit and tie of gray
Say a couple words of grace
Toss the earth upon my face
And let's call it another day
Endless time is all I've got
As I decompose and rot
It's a horrid situation
As I leave you all behind
The one thing that
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Categories:
pennies, death, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Nickel Is Worth?
"Pennies are good luck. Take one with you everywhere you go." By Poet
Once in a tale of old,
a penny was worth one cent not gold.
A nickel was worth five pennies,
they say changes are coming Jenny.
With no more pennies of copper,
this will be a real money stopper.
Guess I need to now unearth,
the real story behind
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Categories:
pennies, fun, money, old, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
nurseries green and pennies brown
hello brother,
irish hearing of translations
in american creole we leave, ears are not left nor right
they perk and grass talls to a tickling memory for running up to the hairs of trigger
trigger is limber and frequiently as december
bestow herselfish visits when attendants of time
dare not his fender
his fender glides in names as thumper
neither care to
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Categories:
pennies, animal, august, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
'Cashing in Pennies'
sordid surroundings
make for Dickensian tales
~ poverty triumphs
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Categories:
pennies, literature, money, poverty,
Form: Senryu
Pennies from Heaven
Three Pennies from Heaven dropped as I opened my bedroom door,
From a loved one who tossed them to the hardwood floor.
They came to tell me how I’m truly missed,
And that Heaven definitely does exist.
They dropped at midnight- taking bathroom break,
Later two glued together- there was no
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Categories:
pennies, angel, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
pennies, dance,
Form: Haiku
I Got My Pennies Worth By Saying No
There’s a five pence piece in my pocket, it means nothing to me.
It’s an object that shouldn't be there, but with someone else or somewhere.
In my pocket! Forgotten.
Like the growing old colourless material on me.
The five pence piece makes me feel smaller than normal, giving no impression that I'm doing well.
As leaning over the toilet
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Categories:
pennies, addiction,
Form: Free verse
I Got My Pennies-Worth By Saying No
There’s a five pence piece in my pocket, it means nothing to me.
It’s an object that shouldn't be there, but with someone else or somewhere.
In my pocket! Forgotten.
Like the growing old colourless material on me.
The five pence piece makes me feel smaller than normal, giving no impression that I'm doing well.
As leaning over the toilet
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Categories:
pennies, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Pennies, Nickels And Dimes
pennies, nickels, dimes
small but big enough for dreams
coins that roll in chimes
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Categories:
pennies, dream,
Form: Senryu
Jar Full of Pennies
Ban and J.R. sat in the kitchen restless in their chairs,
rambling on with pleasure, they were such a pair.
Outside a very pulling seductive summer day,
but they were focused with what is in front of them.
They have finished counting all the old
copper wheat pennies in the canning jar,
which was full to the brim. It was theirs.
Their
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Categories:
pennies, boy, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Pennies From Heaven
Pennies From Heaven
Love Is A Given
When God Is Your Leaven
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Categories:
pennies, appreciation, god,
Form: Rhyme
Pennies
Pennies
They give us pennies for the years
we have spent
Everybody says to care
Cant wish away the tears
It was not hard to clamber
Speed the unconsecrated times
Seen so many chances fall from
clumsy hands
Glad to leave my youth
The river of us runs dry
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Categories:
pennies, age, allusion,
Form: Prose
Bad Pennies
Writing is a messy feast
where crumbs fall to the floor
to aggregate and congregate
to hide and form and spore
Left alone and thrown away
these remnants take new life
invading what you fear the most
on dark and stormy nights
They creep inside your cleanest lines
to weaken and distract
what memory long has cast aside
now rising from the cracks
And latching on while
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Categories:
pennies, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Learning Young
Learning Young
From back when I was 7 and 8,
When candy bars cost 5 cents,
And “being polite” meant
Even to strangers. The wrinkled,
Baggy, old man, who
Lived in the basement apartment
Next-door, with the pass-time
Of sitting outside on his
Stoop atop five steps to ground level,
Would always call me over
To sit on his
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Categories:
pennies, child abuse, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Just Tossing Pennies
When I was young and still in my twenties
Thought eighty was ancient, never thought eventually
I'd be older than dirt
Instead of a squirt
Just yesterday against the wall, I was tossing pennies
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Categories:
pennies, fun,
Form: Limerick
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