Short Nickel Poems

Short Nickel Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Nickel by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Nickel by length and keyword.


No Quarter

You said I wasn't worth a plug nickel 
But you offered a penny for my thoughts, 
So I gave you my two cents 
And turned on a dime
Form: Grook


Premium Member Happy Hour

The definition of a hustle play
No point in crying over yesterday
Don't be a nickel looking for a dime
It's always peanut butter time
© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.

It Doesn'T Add Up

Well now I've gone and done it again
Another math test was failed by me
If I had a nickel for each one,
I'd have a dollar thirty three!
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

What Money Can'T Buy

I bought a paper for a nickel
I bought a pencil for a dime
but no money in the world could
ever buy me love that was never
intended to be mine.
Form: Rhyme

Nickel-O-De-In

A lady well known to be fickle
Was left all alone with a pickle
To her great delight
She found out that night
How a nickel pickle can tickle!
Form: Limerick


Once Was a Poet

There once was a poet
though he didn't really know it
his words fickle but rhymed fluently
as he nickel and dimed smoothly
Too bad he blew it.
Form: Limerick

Blindman the On Train

hes has a cup
it stuff
with nickel and dine
is he really blind
or playing on your mind
he can be a pain
to fine that of
BLINDMAN ON THE TRAIN

Premium Member Money

a cent, I feel puny
a nickel, I shine
and the dime you gave me 
as I asked for the time
the dollar to be earned 
to make a pile but not a shield.

Baby Dill

If I had a shiny new nickel
I'd buy me another dill pickle
My wife thinks she knocked me up
Made me go pee in a cup
But pickle juice came out in a trickle
© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Outward Bound

I'll loan you my own plugged nickel if you have a red cent I may borrow but swallow a dollar today and you'll be passing the buck tomorrow
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Slack For Sale

One cent, two cents,
	Nickel and dime
Two bits, four bits,
	A dollar this time.

Ship me a grasshopper
	Do me a crime
Fly like a whippoorwill 
	O'er Anaheim.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member In a Pickle

Your vehicle's surely in a pickle
Because you, its owner, are so fickle
  You claim depreciation
  Never appreciation
You don't think your car's worth a plugged nickel
Form: Limerick

Premium Member No Money Blues

Tin can pan alley cat man
                                       Nickel and dime No money blues
                                    Also-ran derelict on the run no shoes
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Think Back

When was the last time 
  you heard "butter brickle"
or saw the hammer and sickle

I'll bet you a wooden nickel
  it's about the last time
you ate a non-kosher pickle!

Life

life is fickle
a bit like a pickle

it will cost a nickel 
for a hammer and sickle

i have a freckle on my face
now give me a tickle

life is fickle
just like a pickle.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Pickle Pucker

I handed toddler sour pickle
I bribed him with a shiny nickel
Took a little bite
And to my delight
His puckered face, gave me a tickle

Copyright © 2010  By Caryl S. Muzzey
Form: Limerick

Cold Reception

I found myself in a real bad pickle
my lady thinks I'm cheap to the nickel,
so I told her I would spend
but she screamed, "This is the end."...
Mad at, "Your boobs droop like an icicle!"
© George Aul  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Bright Shiny Quarter

  A bright shiny quarter was rolling its way
    toward a young man with large bills to pay

  The nickel rolled by, ignored and shunned 
    ~ all the young man’s accounts were dunned
Form: Couplet

Butt of the Joke

You are today 

Worth to you a dime, 

To me a nickel

To her a penny

  A house 30 million 

    A man a house

     The past a Man


      Earth the future

       The future nothing.

Premium Member Worth More Than a Nickel

There once was a rich man from Des Moines Whose profile was engraved on a coin He was so proud He crowed out loud It was money that kept him going.
Written July 18, 2021
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Penny For a Poem

A penny for a poem 
    a nickel for your thoughts
  Two bits for any wisdom
    that life has you taught

  It's not what we know
    but the deeds we have done
  Knowledge earns a fee
    ~ when it helps someone
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Just because

Just because 
you think you know everything 
doesn't mean you know jack xxxx
if I had a nickel 
for every time you said 
you were right 
I think I'd be a millionaire 
let's just say I'd be 
with you for the money!
fun

Premium Member Two-Line Quote, for Contest

   'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'
       ~ so is a wooden nickel


     __________________________
     Entry in 'Two Line Quote' contest
           Sponsor: Rick Parise
              March 24, 2025

Premium Member Putin's Predicament

Russian flag is a hammer and sickle Now their president is in a pickle Down the stairs, a messy heap Making threats he cannot keep Vladimir Putin's not worth a nickel.
Written December 10, 2022
Form: Limerick

Home In Peace

I gave the poor a nickel
who spent it on some shoes.
Then those who owned the store
had money for their dues.

The store was just a new one
and had to pay it's lease.
And I the plaza owner
took the nickel home in peace.
Form: Quatrain

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