Short Dickens Poems
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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!
Karlyn Pickens
threw a softball faster than the dickens.
As I stood ready to swing and hit,
the ball was already in the catcher's mitt.
Charles John Huffam Dickens
wrote many novels where the plot thickened
but one of his best ditties
was A Tale of two Cities
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
David Copperfield's Great Expectations
Oliver Twist's Hard Times
Tale of Two Cities, No Christmas Carol
Dickens' Novels -- Poetry Sans Rhymes
I still recall how I once felt,
a young boy, as I knelt.
There were pigs, cows, and chickens.
I laughed like the dickens
before a board of felt.
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 *****&quaint
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
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
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
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'
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!
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.
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
urchins
lurkin’
pick pockets
slick rockets
cash gone
search spawned
no leads
heart bleeds
drop case
God’s grace
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!'
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
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
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
Form:
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
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
“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.
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
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
Certainly no coward was Bob Cratchit
scrapping together fifteen shillings, a measly bit
a dear family man, meek but not bleak
putting Scrooge to shame, driving miser to seek !
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2nd Placing : Standard Contest
Dec.2025