Personification Poem--Pennies--National Poetry Month

This is a personification. If you want to know about these, go here. I think I'll do mine about pennies...;o)

 PENNIES

@Nobody wants you. You're filthy and brown,

And dented and germy and small

But when you line up in a long, long line
You add up to quite a good haul.

@I once tried to take you to Ireland

'Cause I hadn't hauled you to the bank
You weighed so much I had to ditch you

I had none but myself left to thank.

@It is funny that even the Irish

Don't want you around anymore

You'd think that for them you would add up

Just the same as the States did before.

@Some people just toss you in trash cans

Or under the bed or the car

But even if they do not roll you

Hundreds of uses there are:

Train track smashing
Homeless helping

Penny car flashing

Bedroom bronzing

Pellet gun targeting
Wishing well tossing

 

Bookshelf leveling

Roomie's door jambing

Jewelry jangling

 @But mostly I really like pennies

You're small but if I add you up

The two of us are going places

I'll just keep adding you to the cup

@Pretty soon you are buying me houses

Vacations and speed boats and cars

The uses that people can put you to

Can number almost as the stars. 

© 2017 by H. Linn Murphy