The Poetry Club
...He enters looking bedraggled, tired and worn out, his skin like Vellum, blank and pale. Lifting his eyes to catch their gaze he gives a slight nod to acknowledge their presence. He scans the room as ...
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Categories:
barfly, imagination, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bleak Barfly
...Blue grey, bleached white,
Onyx indigo, blackened night,
The same is felt, dark or bright,
In shadows or winter’s harshest light.
I find it buried even within my soul
Shards of ice, shade...
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Categories:
barfly, life,
Form: Rhyme
Play Date No 8
...This ain't a playdate
And I am not 8
In fact I am near on pushing the
grand old age of 55
And truth be told I have barely anything
to show for all of those many year's
Apart from a few...
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Categories:
barfly, slam,
Form: Free verse
Dirty Girty
...There was an old barfly named Girty,
Her body and breath filthy and dirty,
She'd stink up the place
With no shame on her face
While she farted when feeling quite flirty....
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Categories:
barfly, giggle,
Form: Limerick
Fireman Wolf Cry
...Nothing but have I upon this most
of auspicious moment to give
My total unreserved apologies and
resignation
Unto who whatsoever anybody
tuning white noise out would
surely listen
But a...
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Categories:
barfly, slam,
Form: Free verse
Dramaturge
...I portrayed the knave of hearts again,
A role it would seem I was made for.
I ventured off script and silenced my critics
By drinking them under the table.
Classically trained in the tavern art...
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Categories:
barfly, allegory, drink, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
Born Trouble
...If that’s a heartache you’re drinking
Then to my way of thinking
You shouldn’t drink it alone
Mind if I sit with you, baby
Between the buts and the maybes
Go ahead an’ turn off your fone
The ...
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Categories:
barfly, for her, heartbreak, lost,
Form: Lyric
Old New Year Blues
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It’s time to flip the free calendar,
loosen the rusty Christmas tree stand screws
Battery’s low on the reindeer car,
boost the spirits with some gift used snowshoes
In these worn out...
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Categories:
barfly, angst, holiday, poverty, truth,
Form: Quatrain
The Barfly
...Reel in son with one-liners Next to you sugar would taste like salt ...
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Categories:
barfly, art, cheer up, environment,
Form: Free verse
Now That's a Shame
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Tis a gladness found in sadness
mostly pleasure
wince of pain
From an odor round the barroom
none the boys could e'er explain
Like a billowed line of washin'
after gentle fallen rain
Tis ...
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Categories:
barfly, addiction, change, emotions, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
The Bar's Tool
...Scorned coquette
perched so solemnly
upon your death stool,
claw deep the fresh flesh of victors
bearing armfuls of decaying flowers
stolen from your mother’s grave.
A diverse parade -
clairvoyants ...
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Categories:
barfly, recovery from...
Form: Free verse
No Chance
...Friends we are much more I yern for us
to be.
I take to silence cause its not him.
That I was ever ment to to be.
A barfly wasnt ever ment to see the light.
I'll bury my emotions .
So n...
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Categories:
barfly, angst, introspection, love
Form: I do not know?
Categories:
barfly, parody
Form: Haiku