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Shillings Poems - Poems about Shillings

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rat catcher
...Rat Catcher I feel repulsed when he is near, I ought to have compassion for this cripple, a twisted foot. an arm that does not function as it should a beggar with scabby skin, eyes as black as......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, absence, break up, crush,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member ANOTHER YORKSHIRE FORGER
...Twas back in the eighteen sixties When Shaw began to fake And produce silver forgeries, A fortune so to make. He set up making English coins From cheap alloy of tin. Half-crowns, sh......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, england, history, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heart Attack
...Sometimes we rush around far too much for sense, in desperate persuit of pounds, shillings and pence; no wonder that we're falling down like finished flies, I'm outa here but I don't know about al......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, anxiety, heart, money,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Came To Australia
...i Came to Australia by Bob Moore © 2020 I came to Australia a long time ago as soon as I started to talk, they would know you are a Pome, then they would laugh your always whinging, and don’t ......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
I Was Becoming a Bad Child
...Cunning like foxes,greedy as hyenas,they looked at me; With widened eyes and wet lips,ready to grab me,like an angry lioness; And tear me like a beast and swallow me like the shark that swallowed ......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, abuse, anger,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Witch Sal Tryal
...Sal Tryal is an unusual witch And not the kind that eat kids. She leads a quiet and simple life Wants no bother or any type strife. The deep forest is her piece of heaven In a place called No......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Awakening
... “What is this strange place we find ourselves in Trapped in the open, we are free within” ---------- Trapped out in the open By hope beyond hoping, Desperately groping ......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, blue, perspective, red,
Form: Tail-rhyme
One Day Away
...I was asked why I always Give kids on my streets few shillings Even though The street has no memory It will kill me when it needs It is really selfish I answered They have held it toget......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, analogy, angst, endurance, fear,
Form: Free verse
Ballad of Molly Jones
...David Jones, the best rat catcher Shropshire has ever had must take some criticism for young Molly turning bad. Even though his daughter found rich co-incidentals, no credit could be taken by rat ......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, history,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Coldness
...Locked inside the office Nine to five Too budy to read the morning papers Too frustruating to read the colleages Too unwilling to read The boss high expectations Too busy to read the world Th......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, endurance, stress, work,
Form: Free verse
The Hanging Man
...There once lived a man, abhorrent and cruel, With family he resided, high up on the moor. He yet drew breath, a misfortune unbeknownst, To those in his care, their fate soon manifest. His wife......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, father daughter, history, murder,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Past Times 2
...Five stones                 closing times radiograms and               seventy-eights school caps               sticklebacks saturday flicks,pooh sticks Charabancs               steam train......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Tears
...Laying down on my bed to rest, A flood of emotions run through my head. Tears rolled down my face, For Your love and grace. As I cried I want to say, thank you, Lord f......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, appreciation, best friend, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Saved In My Memorybank
...Five stones closing times radiograms & seventy-eights school caps sticklebacks saturday flicks pooh sticks Charabancs steam trains linoleum oil cloth mangles fis......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Once Upon a Time Growing Up
...Looking back now on my adolescence so many years ago much has now past many struggles came across my path but in time the dye was cast Living in the sixties as I did the music scene affected m......Read the rest...
Categories: shillings, childhood, memory, remember,
Form: Rhyme

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