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Threepenny Poems - Poems about Threepenny


Premium Member I REMEMBER my yesteryears
...I REMEMBER (1) Candles & nightlights    flickering bright blackout curtains     shutting out light Dripping setting    from Sunday's roast spread  thick on Monday's toast Paper chains ......

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Categories: threepenny, art, childhood, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Growing Up
...Candles and nightlights flickering bright, blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight. Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight, perhaps the war will end to-night. Dripping setting from Sunday's......

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Categories: threepenny, childhood,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Memories Fresh As Yesterday
...CANDLES&NIGHTLIGHTS Candles and nightlights flickering bright, blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight. Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight, perhaps the war will end to-night. Dripping se......

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Categories: threepenny, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Past Times 10
...CANDLES&NIGHTLIGHTS Candles and nightlights flickering bright, blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight. Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight, perhaps the war will end to-night. Dripping se......

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Categories: threepenny, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memories Made of This
...Candles & nightlights flickering bright blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight snuggle down cosy blankets tight perhaps the war will end to-night dripping sett......

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Categories: threepenny, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Good Old Days In Deed
...CANDLES and NIGHTLIGHTS Candles and nightlights flickering bright, blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight. Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight, perhaps the war will end to-night. Dripp......

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Categories: threepenny, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the Parting
...Der Abschied (“The Parting”) by Bertolt Brecht loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch We embrace; my fingers trace rich cloth while yours encounter only moth- eaten fabric. A ......

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Categories: threepenny, friendship, holocaust, leaving, war,
Form: Free verse
Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the Burning of the Books
...Die Bücherverbrennung ("The Burning of the Books") by Bertolt Brecht loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch When the Regime commanded the unlawful books to be burned, teams of du......

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Categories: threepenny, books, fire, holocaust, voice,
Form: Verse
Three Penny Opera
...Three Penny Opera A penny for your thoughts she said And paid-up cash, right on the spot I think I love you was my reply Do you have another penny or are you Planning to get my thoughts for fr......

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Categories: threepenny, fantasy, imagery, lust, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Candles Nightlights Recited
...CANDLES&NIGHTLIGHTS Candles and nightlights flickering bright, blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight. Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight, perhaps the war will end to-night. Dripping setting......

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Categories: threepenny, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Lest We Forget
...I remember those days when just a kid, the old ten shilling note, and the odd quid.* Teddy boys in their drain pipes, fur collars smelling of nicotine, street wise scholars. Conkers,* glass alleys* a......

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Categories: threepenny, nostalgia, school, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Candles and Nightlights
...Candles and nightlights flickering bright, blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight. Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight, perhaps the war will end to-night. Dripping setting from Sunday's roas......

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Categories: threepenny, family, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain

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