Short Shillings Poems

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Bridge Work

Extractions are cheaper than fillings
But the dentist went mad with the drillings
So alas and alack
And a bucket of plaque
 It cost me two quid; forty shillings!...

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Categories: shillings, funny, health,
Form: Limerick


Two Shillings

I carried two shillings, one for each eye,
For my love was a dying soul.
When she left I kissed her goodbye -
Covered her eyes to soften death's toll.

2-28-20
Contest: Poe Etic Verse
Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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Categories: shillings, death,
Form: Verse
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Bob Cratchit

Scrooge's Clerk, Bob Cratchit Earned his paycheck, and hopes to match it He needs to buy his Christmas dinner But Scrooge just pinched his shillings thinner!
____________________________________ For Andrea's Contest: Christmas Clarihew 12/10/14...

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Categories: shillings, christmas, people,
Form: Clerihew
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Which Pasta Am I Give It a Try

I'm a fresh pastry made with different fillings
A plate of me will cost you a few shillings
Sometimes made with spinach and ricotta cheese
Topped with tomato sauce and fresh, green peas
It depends, my pockets are sometimes filled with salmon and cream
I am the Mediterranean dream
I am solely
The one and only Ravioli !...

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Categories: shillings, food, for her, for him, i am,
Form: Rhyme

Ten Shillings

( a before independent Nigeria, excerpt )




************************************
At night
He came with his family;
The whole band,
All looking somewhat tired and hungry.
Oga!
He shouted, and then a quick grin.
Month end don pass ooo,
And you promised
To pay on demand the Sum of Ten shillings’
You remember?




Godwin Henry Osaigbovo Pa Shakespeare...

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Categories: shillings, africa, allusion, black love, books, literature, money,
Form: Dramatic Verse


Sally

As she wanders 
the streets, Sally
is ready 
to discover 
the beauty  
in anyone 
who will 
let her 
harvest it.
She spends 
some hundred 
shillings a day 
to keep a grip 
on reality – 
two or three 
bubble baths 
re-connect her 
to her life.
One day 
she met 
a man 
to amuse 
and also 
remembered 
the child.
Ever since, 
Sally is herself, 
accountable to 
no one else....

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Categories: shillings, character, confusion, emotions, gender, irony, memory, psychological,
Form: Verse

If Truth Be Told

What social distance, at sunrise?
Cheek by jowl,no surprise
No greedy cops yet on patrol
Throwing awry, infection control

Elsewhere the experts crunch the numbers
As the hungry nation slumbers
A hundred  deaths amid too many feelings
Negative test results for three thousand shillings

What is true, what is false, we know not
Which book have we sought?
Wisdom, the beginning of all understanding, real
Makes conventional thinking surreal...

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Categories: shillings, 12th grade, africa, books, death, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Hustle

Every ten year old needs a hustle 
The cattle yards the Friday shuffle 

The farmer need a sandwich for lunch
Or a horse they've got a hunch  

I will run to get your dinner
Or place the bet for the sinner

It makes no difference to me
I am just hustling for a tuppenny

In the back door of bookie shop
Two Shillings I did drop

Over to the copper fiddle
For the ham off the griddle

I hand Paddy his slip and meat
A sixpence on the hustlers beat...

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Categories: shillings, work,
Form: Carpe Diem
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