Short Nickle Poems

Simple.
Shinny.
Five cents of fun....

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love is fond gold, to freely give
not subject to space nor time

treasure of the flowered 60’s 
we foolishly squandered for a 
mere nickle and dime…....

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We cook it ! Feel your tonsils tingle!
Add mayonnaise, lettuce, a pickle.
Lost both tonsils at ten
so can I ask you when
my change comes to more than a nickle?...

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Mandatory health insurance is the law,
better have it or you'll feel the lions paw,
penalty a fine,
nickle and dimed,
premiums each year increasing what for?






12-25-16...

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She was a beautiful icicle
Icicle Sue, my price pickle.
Icicle seen.
Icicle queen
A sharp icicle worth a nice nickle.


Written 1-8-2019        Contest:  Same Word Winter Limerick
                                Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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Normalise the teen
Seen slutty on your screen 
Insta app’s the pimp

Youth attracted person 
Sounds like feral yap
Bright colour’s brand sin

By history’s stone judge
The Black Cap atop his wig
For poisoners of innocence 

By David Nickle Read


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over the table
I sat waiting to die.

all I can do is look
at a table covered in
newspapers and
collection notices.

I looked deep into the
shine of my nickle plated
gun,took a deep breath.


as life slipped away,
I realized that the clock
struck midnight.

and
I
starved
for death....

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I know that poetry
is not everyone's bag
(dime or nickle);
and its taste 
makes many gag;
and the labor
intense as it must be
certainly not for those
who lag – 

but for the poet
while most often
not his bread-and-butter 
he senses God, somehow
a complicit Brother

closer His heart

and Spirit Divine...

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if a car is
a lemon
then it
has

soured
but a
lemon
when

given a nail
of nickle
and a coin
of steel

with a wire
between
the two
hooked

to a light
bulb of
the size
of outside

christmas
lights it
will
light up

so if life
gives you
melons
then

perhaps
you are
in the
dark

and 
dys
lex
ic...

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Have you ever seen dust 
splash like rising smoke? 
One day you’ll be walking 
in the long dry of summer, 
and sit in the shade of a 
lone tree on the track, 
the first heavy drops of an 
August shower will fall 
around the feet you nurse; 
and you’ll see dust splash 
like rising smoke.

By David Nickle Read

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Heavy metals make you dumb.
Arsenic, Gold, Plumbum.

Those metals take from the dome.
Why not try nickle, iron, or chrome?

Chlorine, sulfur, and radon will take away your breath.
Carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen can make meth.

While mercury, zinc, and copper were known to the boomers,
lithium, silicon, and titanium were just late bloomers....

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a penny and a quarter
a nickle and a dime
this is change 
big change takes time
take the time 
let the change build up
continue building
then it will become big change

a haircut and a dye
a facelift another guy
this is change
big change takes time
take the time 
let the change build up
continue building 
then it will become big change...

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I look in the mirror
And imagine what I could be.
I picture a crown without tears.
I see silver veins coursing through me.
Refined gold is what I bleed. 
My tears are titanium.
I eat copper like wheat.
Yumm radium.
Iron and Steel are sweet.
I like my Cobolt well done. 
Aluminum is always a treat.
But the nickle and magnesium,
are as tender as concrete....

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Today's Cry Tomorrow,
The crazed blood roared,
Operatic vein beats,
Deafening thrums the ear,
The Mob's mad pulse,
Sickly gathering speed,
Sunset drifts across their barborous drone,
I turn my face from the crimson crowd,
To walk in mind with today's failing light;
until tomorrow...




By David Nickle Read 26/12/17
All rights reserved by the author

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                                                                                      Armistice day, 2012.
                               Never Look Away

Remember, remember,
11th November,
No more gunpowder,
Gas screaming rot.

Remember this day,
Never again,
And tomorrow those who fell we forgot.

Remember, remember, remember.


                              David Nickle Read   ...

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The humble omnipresent penny
is soon to vanish from our currency.
If a penny or two increases your bill
it’ll be upped to the nearest nickle.
The government claims its economically 
sound considering the penny’s ubiquity.
And kids, with sweet tooths especially,
are most of all rebelliously unhappy
claiming that if deprived of penny candy
it’ll be worse than drug withdrawal, frankly!...

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Nazi p0rn sent to warn, became the entertainment of a sick hand’s idle work,
Horror now, World Wide Web kicks,
A can down the street of innocence,
Prior to the wire,
and the background server’s hum,
Before the screens blinded minds,
The Bleeding digital infected our cities,
A true pandemic of addictive proportions; the day they switched the internet on… 

By David Nickle Read

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SAGE

The Burning sage smoulder's the twilight phantasmagoria,
Ghosts of scented smoke drift from a blackened clay pot,
Creatures sing our Sun to Morpheus arms,
Silence of their heart beats a deeper wish now,
Simple dreams of love in the long grass replace digital desire; 
And all it took was our loss of freedom...

By
David Nickle Read
©D.N.Read 2020
All Rights Reserved By The Author

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" X " Factor

If " X"  is a Factor
Bring me my protractor
and ill work on a equation
For every occasion
So you stand out from the crowd
Your uncontrollably loud
and the camera's they'll love you
Your parent's proud of you
But enjoy the bright lights
because your public are fickle
Sell you out for a nickle
And the equations a year
the span of a career
when you put X in the Factor
because your merely an actor 
The star is " X " Factor...

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the toothfairy isn't queer
in fact, all he wants is teeth
just why I often wonder
but still a tooth I'll put beneath
my pillows, he's always peekin' under
he's kind'a cheap these days
only a nickle, dime, or quarter
guess he doesn't know about inflation
though I think he really ought'a
think he goes to dental school?
what's he do
with all those darn teeth?
grind them into dice?
I guess that'd be nice,
of use once again
in a gambling den....

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big fat greasy cheeseburgers
big and fat
fat and greasy
1/4 lb.
1/2 lb.
1 lb.!
just give it to me good
Come to daddy!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
Big and cheesey
Fat and greasy
Big and greasy
Fat and cheesey
Cheeseburger!
Bacon?
Yes, I hope it's not taken
Pickle?
Of course, it's just an xtra nickle
Extra cheese?
Are u kidding? Absolutely...please!
Mayo?
not today, i'll have a french fried potato
grill it
broil it
fry it
just let me eat it!...

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Sunlight dripped from dawn branches of Oaken age,
running through rivulets of his ancient gnarled skin,
acorn leaf finger tips grip the slipping drops of dew,
casting rainbow prisms with grand wind blown gestures,
to land upon my dozing brow awakening me to dreams,
in a land where reality’s perception is the sum of your happiness; 
and simple goodness frees life’s wheel.




©David Nickle Read 2016
All Rights Reserved By The Author

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Back in our youth the biggest concerns were:
procuring our juvenile delinquent beer
were our nickle bags laced with paraquat...
where could get some easy twat...
and how we laughed our asses off 
when our friend earned his nickname
by "snatching" the crabs from a skank-

But somehow it's more sinister now,,, 
children are peppered with 
pedophiles
toxic theories 
on linecreepers 
fentanyl dreamers  
non believers-

I miss the days of my stoned and filthy innocents-...

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I'm on the outside, looking In
Quite often I feel like the only word
in a poem that doesn't rhyme,
or I'm a nickle, five cents short
when I'm in need of a dime.

You make me feel like I don't belong.
Distress is written all over my face.
I'm the only wallflower at a dance.
The shy one in need of a hiding place.

I don't want to be the odd puzzle piece
that everyone overlooks and rejects.
I have a heart that's been wounded.
Your ostracism has crippling affects.
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