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Pinny Poems - Poems about Pinny


Plank or Axle

...Plank or axle
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Two lad's halted child
And men mature bolted out
One chose the plank
The other the axle
They laboured hard
For the slog on commission
They had to do
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Categories: pinny, age, allusion, bereavement, child,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTuesday Memory

...three thirty, exact
foregoing
  the afterschool
match

tuesday
  my weekly treat
   awaits on gran's
baking tray
arriving there
a spicy aroma
  fiiled the air
  it was freshly baked
my 
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Categories: pinny, food, memory,
Form: Bio



Cooper Clarke Back Beat

...So house proud
Yet nowt inside
This Terrace house
But family

Mum outside
Dressed up in her pinny
Gabby Anny
Gossiping over washing line
With nosy nextdoor neighbor

Proudly polishing
The...
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Categories: pinny, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Lancashire Lad 1914-18 War

...THE LANCASHIRE LAD 1914-18

Hello Mother, a nurse is writing this for me,
I’ve lost my arm and a bit of my leg you see,
But I’m up on crutches and hobbling about,
So this afternoon, they’re ship...
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Categories: pinny, conflict, courage, emotions, england,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTickety Tockety Sprockety Rockety

...Tickety Tockety Sprockety Rockety.
Where is my shockety brockety pockety?
What is in it, that I can inny pinny have?
What is out there, that is bigger than a calf?
 
Tickety Tockety Sprockety Ro...
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Categories: pinny, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Institutional Jargon

...Institutional Jargon

Strait lined jacket, 
A wheelchair line-up peruses the pasty walls
In synchronized fashion
Secured by schedule 
Where the pristine uniform
Clicks heels and strides with p...
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Categories: pinny, repetition,
Form: Blank verse

Streets

...Bright bubbles. Such twirling crystalized hue. In Smokey paper eating wrappers. And dwelling not on a letter. Swelling in importance. Self importance. Ok then play circle bubbles in a packed out fron...
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Categories: pinny, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things