Back Street Poems

Time will tell

...The days run long, the sun burns bright.
when i am with you all seems so right
Our time alone has been so short of late
But memory takes me back to our first date

That first night together, we ...

Gift of Recovery

...

She'd been been beaten, pushed around and abandoned like trash 
without a collar around her neck she was a dog with no name
Dogtrotting slowly behind the back street she licked at her rash  
u...

Front Row Tickets to Mainstreet

...In a crowded room filled with high society, and
In the facade of decadence, plays the Back Street Symphony
Winos falling asleep covered in yesterdays news
A lone saxaphone player, playing the blue...

You are the Music

...
'You are the music', the guitar strings of my favourite song.
Your lyrics 'touch my life,' as you are the twin to my soul.
What 'am I' without you, when all melodies sound so wrong.
I'll...

Behind the wall

...The coffee shops stand by the canal
Beautiful scenery and in flannels
All spruced up to put on the show
How wealthy they are we don't need to know

Behind the wall is a back street ginnel
With ...

A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte

...A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte 

specified such so as to issue a rhyme, 
but proceeded as this scribe 
didst git linkedin with the cutting crew,
mow or less...

Sunday Street

...She walked down the street with her hands clasp in thine and for one moment it felt like something divine; she was walking out of an old life into a new one, but I couldn’t tell where she was from.
...

A Common Whore

...Just a common whore they said
Who rolled the drunken tars
As they staggered out from
The Dockside taverns and bars.
Lime Street, Liverpool was
Where she plied her trade.
Where her drunken barga...

A Piece of You

...I saw you standing by tree holding on to the leaves and folding your hands as the untold mystery with bare back and rocks walk through the wood looking for the man.

 I stand aloof in the dark wait...

Uprooted

...Unlike the Famous Five,
with capers, japes and adventures,
boats and well stocked picnics, we lived
a back street life. With a sock and masking tape ball
and mucky fat sarnies.
The Family Allowa...

Two Thumbs Up

...This is an unbelievable true story of a time when I was in my younger years. I drove out to California with a buddy of mine to spend some time with my brother. To make a long story short, we ended up...

Rough Justice

...I got mugged in Moenchengladbach
Straight up and down 
I got mugged in Moenchengladbach
In a back street of the town.

I’d been drinking with this bird,
Said she was an exotic dancer\
But the ...

Precision Swearing

...Precision swearing they call it
A term that may sound absur
But it’s economical with the breath
And wastes not a single word,
It rolls smoothly from the tongue
Instantly relieving pain
And, in ...

Random Musings

...In Small Doses
Living a life is like taking poison –you die a little each day.

I am screwed
Know not when? Know not how? –Marriage happened.

Gone Astray...

I Think Im In Danger - Away In a Manger Parody

...I think I’m in danger
I could end up dead
When my wife smells the perfume
on her side of the bed
The perfumes I buy her
From a cheap back-street dive
Don’t smell like this perfume
It’s Chanel ...

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