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Sixpence Poems - Poems about Sixpence

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Premium Member Sing a Song of Sixpence
..."This is believed to be a version that I'd furthered a bit more," ... by Poet Sing a song of gone-byes, A pocket golden watch. Four and twenty hours Staked as top-notch. When the......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, allusion, analogy, appreciation, bird,
Form: Rhyme



Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal Sleep
...Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep Forlorn; bereft of golden (slippered) opportunities I weep; Three score and four years replete with mailer daemons, hence mindset adrip with self denou......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, age, angel, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jacqueline Trestrail
...On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won best......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, mother, tribute,
Form: Prose
Premium Member My Friend Goofy Giraffe
...goofy giraffe is generous, but he has almost no sense He often falls into ponds, and once walked into a fence But he’s a great guy; he once loaned me a sixpence my best friend some days, even thou......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Faeries Encourage Sparrow To Sing
...The faeries were enormously busy that wet spring Coaxing, encouraging and begging a sparrow to sing. He wore a hat with a cherry I think it was Bing. He looked sharp, but his wing was in a small s......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member School Days Songs-Nursery Rhyme
...I learn lots of pleasant songs at my school, Songs about blind mice, or stars like jewels, And animals making sounds, here and there. On Macdonald Farm, sounds are everywhere! Sometimes......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, children, fun, happiness, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wednesday Memory
...Every Wednesday on the dot, off to the newsagent like a shot. A solitary sixpence,all my wealth picking up the Hotspur comic from the shelf. To read of my hero W W Wilson,the wonder man, sporti......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Sweeney Todd
...Sing a song a sixpence,a pocket full of rhy,4 and 20 victims,made into a pie,when the pie was opened the guts began to spill,wasn’t that a tasty dish,it gave me such a thrill!......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Carrot Detective
...In the land of produce there lives a carrot detective, I swear When rabbits come during the night to steal carrots, she is there. She watches but says nothing until the police stop the next day. F......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry In Motion Contest Wilson
...Every Tuesday on the dot, I would be off to the newsagent like a shot. A solitary sixpence,all my wealth to pick up my favourite comic from his shelf. Not the Beano,Beezer,Dandy or Eagle... th......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, childhood, fantasy, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member They Are Tinier Than Fawns
...They are tinier than fawns, the deer said to his friend, Lou. Their thick tails are longer, and they have strange coughs too. They have strange hoofs, and when excited they howl a bit. Good grief!......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, 10th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Happiland
... through a very small circle and without reason I once caught sight of a magnified ship 'standing still' out at sea when it came into focus it merged with the sky that was grey and was sm......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, beach, childhood, dream, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Selling Sixpences On Sunday
...Some simpleton said Sally saved sixpence So she sold sixpence six Sundays in a row, Saving six sixpences six Sundays in a row It has never been done before or since… Selling sixpence to some simp......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, humorous,
Form: Alliteration
Thick
...Enter the quickening Earth wind and fire sand Pulsating purple pork pie presence Varacus viscus veinns Like bullets piercing brain baloon targets Knocking them from scaffolding blo......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, slam,
Form: Free verse
Is the Moon Made of Cheese
...Sometimes I'd wish for the moon and sixpence so I could ask you out to tea. The moon would shine it's light, benignly, and there'd be cakes for my mum and me. And there we'd sit, just the two......Read the rest...
Categories: sixpence, i miss you, loss,
Form: Rhyme

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