Short Dickens Poems

Mr. Charles Dickens'
  Plots always thickened...

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runaway orphan
gang of lowlife pickpockets
Charles Dickens classic...

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love through sacrifice even unto death . . . a lost soul’s hope for salvation...

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Dickens' Jacob Marley
favored drink made from barley,
died before Ebenezer,
that stingy old geezer....

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Charles Dickens
was said to be the pickings
of literature in the nineteenth century,
but I couldn't make it pass page three!...

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Charles Dickend mimiced people of his day
by instalments he had his say
He satorised manners of his time
helping poets(like me) to poesy rimes...

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Charles John Huffam Dickens
wrote many novels where the plot thickened
but one of his best ditties
was A Tale of two Cities
...

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David Copperfield's Great Expectations
  Oliver Twist's Hard Times
Tale of Two Cities, No Christmas Carol
  Dickens' Novels -- Poetry Sans Rhymes...

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William.Hogarth did his satire at his desk
he liked to portray the grotesque
Similar to Dickens,but in ink& paint
he lampooned people who were queer&quaint...

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Charles Dickens
his novels began as writing compositions
with hilarity and kindness, he wrote of the poor
with stories we still love that from his pen did pour...

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Chuzzlewit Chuzzlewit
Nicolas Nickleby
Pickwick, Scrooge, Dombey
And more of their kind

Two hundred years, filled with
Dickensiania
Real, just like you:
It is all in the mind...

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David Copperfield
the epitome of life and love,
from another era
created by Dickens.
David Williams
the epitome of life and love,
from all eternity
created by God..

© Harry J Horsman 2012...

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Charles Dickens walked into a bar quite pissed
Seems in his latest reviews he was dissed
  To eat, 'Side of Linguini'
  To drink, 'Double Martini'
Bartender had to ask, 'Olive or Twist'...

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In "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
there are four notable ghosts or apparitions;
and of that quartet of wondrous ghosts
the Ghost of Christmas Presents is the one I like the most!...

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Social critic and novelist Charles Dickens -
The plot of his every book so interestingly thickens!
Not only the creator of Scrooge was he;
He revived the Christmas spirit for you and for me....

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Yesterday I swear I saw Charles Dickens
His quaint style today would take a lickin' --
   So he's changed up the Dodger
   Now he's the 'Artful Todger' --
He whips it out ~ the plot really thickens...

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George judged 'the classics' pretty slim pickins
Reading them, his mood soured and sickened
   George much preferred trash
   Which cost little cash
Then he tried Shakespeare ~ said, 'What the Dickens!'...

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Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol
author Charles Dickens
worked in a boot-blacking factory at age twelve
after father was sent to debtor’s prison
campaigned vigorously for children’s rights...

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Little Danny Hedgehog
Just a-walkin' in the garden
  Kissin' up to kittens
  Hmm... What the dickens

Danny says, Please pardon
That I was in your garden
  Kittens' tit for tat ~
  Get lost, you spiky rat...

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in retirement
i'll become an
Emily Dickens not
meaning transexually
but cloistered
in a room
almost an attic
addicted
to spilling my brains
on paper in
scattered scribbles
with some 
parmesan reggiano
under the
bell jar...

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The comma's job is not to provide suspense or drama
  Nor to indicate a pause, say the guardians of English grammar

The comma's proper use is regulated by a myriad of rules
  Charles Dickens mangled every last one of them, he being no fool...

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His Victorian times were in need of reform. 
He wrote of orphans out in a storm
With no fleece coats to keep them warm,
And a miserable miser counting his gold.
Charles Dickens' topics were true and bold.



Written for Brian's contest  6th place...

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“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be” ~ Pip in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I'm all in pieces, in sad disarray, 
holding your gift, insanity's bouquet....

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Ze French, they are haughty
    Kremlinites, vulgar, crude
  Le artiste charcoal sketches
    in the unvarnished nude  

  Brits keep a stiff upper lip
    Pointy-shoed Italians think they are hip
  Ukrainians fight like the dickens
    their stockpiles reduced to slim pickens...

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Wife Lucy gave me the dickens for being late
                     How could I say I had an appointment with Kate
                                    Kate was creamy saucy
                                     How could I be bossy?
                    Yes I admit those things could be briefer -ill fate...

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