Short What The 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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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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Blip

This is a short poem. 
Not a long one like the rest. 
(not haiku)
This is about time, 
and saying a lot in a small space.
Updates to follow.
Be quiet... (calm)

?...

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Yesterday

We 
that can remember
keep-alive
those that have been forgotten,
in the small room,
the place in our hearts,
where God 
plants the best flowers,
and no tears…
fall....

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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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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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Longing

Little mermaid on the rock, 
Wishing and wondering, 
What it would be like, 
just to walk?

Little girl in a chair, 
riding around on wheels of air…
Wondering; what it is like… to feel?...

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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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925

They are pure silver, 
and have no idea. 
They are humble and kind, 
pray for each other, 
and welcome strangers.

Yet polished or aged, 
vintage of freshly fired, 
the address is the same. 

925...

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Grief

God gave me an angel, 
a wife, 
a helpmate.
I had no idea the worth of that gift, 
bestowed upon my unworthy life.

Regret has nothing to do 
with the sister of joy.  
Loss is the little brother, 
of the spoiled....

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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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Whisper
 
A subtle current,
a fierce expression,
of a gentle feeling, 
wild,
powerful, 
no longer held contained 
by any restraint. 
 
Not weak, as may be expected, 
but the very difference...
between life and death. 

Listen....

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A Blip Offering

I
we
they
and...

a show
a play
a picnic
an event

chaos
loss
grief
love
laughter

joy
connection
wisdom
truth

stranger
family
friend
soul mate

God


(free verse until it is no longer free...)...

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