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"shillings" poems

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EULOGY FOR OUR GIRLSI see a flash / A sight to behold / The work of an immortal sculptor

@stanley-mungai40

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EULOGY FOR OUR GIRLSI see a flash / A sight to behold / The work of an immortal sculptor

@stanley-mungai40

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ShancoduffShancoduff My black hills have never seen the sun rising, / Eternally they look North towards Armagh. / Lot's wife would not be salt if she had been

Patrick Kavanagh16

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again and againif these ties of cupid / however with hearsay were stupid / that she'd complicate her nature

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ABC Poem (Boys Names)Andy loved a girl named Sandy / Bill saw a horse standing on the hill / Cory told his mother a made up story

@ElizabethSquires26

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Johnny, Founded On An Anecdote Of The First French RevolutionJohnny had a golden head / Like a golden mop in blow, / Right and left his curls would spread

Christina Rossetti72

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BurkeMaster of money motivated murders / plying prostitutes with liquor / You only want them for their bodies

@saul-makabim32

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Admiring William~*long lost years / our master, Shakespeare / traveled to London for four days

@adelethewriter21

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The Irish Questioned (Part1)In Ireland we had built a truly independent nation, / standing proud after years of strife and deprivation / But we yearned to join Europe, enticed by her charms,

@damian-murphy32

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Mirthful ChristmasThe air is dry / raven's wide awake / watching the dark and cold sky

@adelethewriter24

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The love of money(With a nod to Michael Rosen's poem, Chocolate Cake) / I love money. / I loved it as a boy

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INFLUENCEYou have a wife and four daughters / and a colleague amongst your supporters / mindset engineered: you answer a question

@terry-reeves14

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Life Was HardLife was hard in those early days / in Swindons rail work shops. / Where conditions were basic and harsh

@malcolm-terence-gould27

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Mary’s ViceVoluptuous virtues he swore he would share / Fraternizing with folklore for the sake of a faith based cure / Reading the words of a quill scribble scare,

@carmelo-antone28

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When water tasted as good as my Palestinian friend said it wouldThey removed the thermostats, / And made us pay for every cup of water we used, / I was standing in the rain,

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HELEN AND THE SMALL PENKNIFEHaving completed various jobs / indoors and out / such as running errands

@terry-collett96

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The clay mouse .Did you know every house needs a. Mouse ? / One day a fine lady with mousy hair and dressed in white , / With little pink shoes ,

@Travellerintime28

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Ode to SolitudeDreams cone as one / under the lights of city / of city hustling inside mind

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tile cutrawed flesh flies / to filthy beat of / the leather changer

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Never EnoughWe daily toil, spoil and sometimes boil / Yet it’s still not enough / We cry, mourn, **** and curse

@benjamin-bauda27

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MonopolyWhen I woke,broke my fast,showered,dressed and then at last I leave the home minus keys and mobile phone I'm not surprised at all. / Early birds must wait their turn and I am third in line to catch the worm,the bus is full,I pull another cigarette,get the free tabloided press,with ironed words upon my eyes and once again I'm not surprised. / Stabbings,killings,patented pile creams for twenty shillings interspersed among the news,I amuse myself by seeing words that don't exist or if they do they're in the pages that I missed and failed to read.

@john-edward-smallshaw7

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Ten ShillingsBefore me is my ten Shillings coin / To be true, it is the only coin in my pocket / The only food i see

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love lovingLove is something that money can not buy. / Wealthy or not. / Working or not.

@moses-fifteen-govene10

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£. s. d.When it comes to matters financial / we all need an ounce of sense / They say a fool is very soon stripped

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