Pennies Poems | Examples

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 comes to mind

Should have asked them for cremation

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 the nickel's worth.
Will the king of coins the nickel require a new birth?

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 scamper yet both shall parent springs

'Cashing in Pennies'

    sordid surroundings

    make for Dickensian tales 

      ~ poverty triumphs

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 mistake.  
If only I could tell them I miss them but I think they know,  
I’ll hold those pennies tight and never let them go.  

So if you find a penny in your trodden track,  
Store it safely away and never give it back. 
Hold it close to your heart and memories will flow,  
When they once were living not very long ago. 

Copyright © 2024 By Caryl S. Muzzey

pennies dance

pennies 
   dance 
      in the dryer

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 seat, as bent slate or like the nickel-plated being.
It’s getting closer to my piss and stained trousers with sick.

The argument resulted in a shortage of thinking.

I am alone with another woman (Elizabeth) but for the moment she is warmer and kinder.

I needed to lay down for a long time.

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 seat, as bent slate or like the nickel-plated being.
It’s getting closer to my piss and stained trousers with sick.

The argument resulted in a shortage of thinking.

I am alone with another woman (Elizabeth) but for the moment she is warmer and kinder.

I needed to lay down for a long time.

Pennies, Nickels And Dimes

pennies, nickels, dimes
small but big enough for dreams
coins that roll in chimes

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 eyes wooed still, with anticipation;
how many there are, as they shared.
So many they thought, with open jaws.

Once more their hand reached into the jar.
With excitement, fingers curl around the copper coins,
withdrew out a few stamped, with stars
with hopes of spending the coins.

3/4/2023

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Pennies From Heaven

Pennies From Heaven 
Love Is A Given 
When God Is Your Leaven

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

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 holding tight
they make you speak their name 
those orphaned crumbs your table cleared
—in sweeping lost disdain

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)

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

Honey and Pennies Sweet-

The nectar of honey so sweet
The touch of money filthy dirty?
Sweet are the pennies

11/12/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr©2020.

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