Tuppence Poems - Poems about Tuppence

For Tuppence

...Born 31st July 2014 – Passed 16th July 2025

When shadows fell and nights grew long..
You came into my life.. a light, a song.
So soft, so sweet, with joy so true..
The world felt brighter just ...

WARMING WARNING

...Our climate is warming
The speed is alarming
Could this be a warning
 
Our greenhouse gases rise
Polluting worldwide skies
Now comes a surprise

The planet is heating
From our carbon burning...

BALLAD OF ELEANOR RIGBY

...Her Mam did for the rich Wool toffs, 
   days chocka block with chores.
Her fella was a plazzy gent— 
   A few jars opened doors.
								
 A proper jarg johnny he used;
   he thought hi’self r...

AUSTERE TIMES

...Milk bottles we would rinse out and return.
Pop bottles take back to claim the tuppence. 
Kellogg’s cartons collected for the kids
To cut and paste and learn creative art.
Unburnt cinders reclaim...

Tuppence a Bag

...Bluebird, it's cold outside today
So be it, you just stay
In here with me, I'll keep you warm
And wrap you up inside my form
Rest your wings within my love
While snowflakes falling from above 
...

Spiritual Healing For An Over Fifty

...When once upon a time one had to knock at your friends door to see if they were in because your parents had put a cap on the phone bill to stop you ringing  ....
When you recycled your bottles of po...

On the Usefulness of Comeuppance

...Comeuppance is a useful word  
          when confronted by a beggar nerd

        Give him no more than tuppence
          a fitting and proper comeuppance...

Charity

...Tuppence to my name 
Tuppence after the bills are 
Paid 
Tuppence for A Thought
Tuppence was a lot of money 
Back in the day 
When we were young 
Tuppence was a lot of money 
For salad creams...

Marley Plays the Bottom Line - With Apologies To Charles Dickens

...Oh, don’t flatter me with presents from the Ghost of Christmas Past. 
Tis the season for nostalgia, but those feelings never last. 
It’s a gift-wrapped empty promise not worth tuppence on the stree...

Smugglers Cave

...There was an old stripper called Jacky,
who's act was deemed rather tacky.
But she got her comeuppance 
when, out of her tuppence,
fell six pipes, fifty fags and some baccy....

The Troll At Speckle Bridge

...There was a time throughout this land 
    when all was well and kind.
Where Wood Sprites, Fairies and Pixie dust 
    were not that hard to find.
But times have changed with the forest quiet 
 ...

Falling In Love With a Writer Is a Faulty Design

...Falling in Love with a Writer is a Faulty Design
We see things that other females
don’t pay a tuppence to.
Like a half-burned cigarette tail,
Your osculation of deep, dense rouge—
A secret trust...

S, J

...Shoeshine Joe.

Thruppence for a shoeshine, that's what Joe will shout.
Tuppence for a bulling up as he smiles and looks about.
Drumming up trade these days is harder than before
his dad was a l...

Zing Is the Thing - a Homily

...Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder,
But Whiskey makes you frisky.
Clerihews and epigrams are fine but
Do not tell these to one lost in love
Except when you mean to cheer up one
Fevered with te...

Just Desserts

...There was a crook named  Jum Tuppence
Who stole from people of meager substance.
He tried it on an undercover cop
And was caught right on the spot.
Now Jum is due to get his comeuppance....

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