The Corner Shop
...They closed the corner store some time ago
the ciggies by the two we now forgo
our lucky bags now a recollection
as is browsing in the comic section.
Mechanics' Social Club no longer stands
thei...
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Categories:
barmaids, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Common Poet
...I have conversed with the common man
in warm and well-worn pubs.
I have been a ribald, and a leery lout,
a seducer of barmaids.
I have been common,
the way a city pidgin is common,
its scabbed ...
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Categories:
barmaids, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Little Darlings
...I met her in a bar in Trinidad,
a mother to the sisterhood was she -
three little girls what merry fun we had
and what sweet memories of you and me.
Madame Estrella, a tongue like a sword...
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Categories:
barmaids, friendship love, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Sonnet
12 Covid Days of Christmas
...On the first day of Christmas
my true love shared with me
a hope of being covid free.
On the second day of Christmas,
my true love shared with me
Two sanitisers,
With hope of being covid free...
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Categories:
barmaids, christmas, humorous, repetition,
Form: I do not know?
Dreamscape
...Dreamscape
Fright night echoes sounds clink tapped chalices,
Amidst caused bruised concoctions aplenty,
Dons alehouse barmaids geniality,
Fair distance yonder gates of said p...
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Categories:
barmaids, dream, poetry,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
50 Words For Poe: the Dolphin
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"50 Words for Poe: The Dolphin"
Like Christmas
all come at once
So too, to the 5th Dimension
a motley crew had arrived
They were all now
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Categories:
barmaids, freedom, muse,
Form: Free verse
When the Wind Comes Down Long Lake In October
...WHEN The WIND COMES DOWN LONG LAKE in OCTOBER
(1 AM in the morning - Naples, Maine)
When unseasonable lake water balm
meets you tripping out of Ricks’ Café
after midnight
you know thos...
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Categories:
barmaids, autumn, farewell, feelings, water,
Form: Free verse
Leap Off a Day
...Leap off a Day
Leap off a day full of struggle and toil.
Pleasure-power fuels freedom's few precious
hours. Head for the cellar where solace is
found. Shoulder a way through the jostling cro...
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Categories:
barmaids, drink, , cute,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Ode To Men That Meet the Week
...When auld friends meet,
To chaw and waste,
And barmaid brings,
The Lad's the taste.
The more the taste,
The more the waste,
And under breath, the wives will curse when call for grace.
But wi...
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Categories:
barmaids, celebration, cheer up, drink,
Form: Ode
The Cheapest Drinking Place In Town
...At the corner of the town you shall find it
A small den filled with cigarette smoke and booze
Wherever you decide to sit, just squeeze you will fit in
Among the best kind of people, the kind with ...
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Categories:
barmaids, abuse, addiction, class, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Just a Barmaid
..."come on, get your coat off, its bloody ten too"
not even eleven and there forming a que
"just a barmaid" thats what they say
service with a smile, expected all day
we are more than just pint pou...
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Categories:
barmaids, drink, fun, funny, humorous,
Form: ABC
Bar Stool Bed Sore Ode To the Record Machine
...Bar Stool Bed Sore Ode to the Record Machine
Smoking Winstons
At the Seaway Lounge
At 2:00 a.m.
The juke-box sighs out
Buck Stovell, Roy Crestline and an occasional Darla Parsell,
Whoever s...
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Categories:
barmaids, depression, drink,
Form: Free verse
Starmade
...A human tornado,
driven,
by influence,
by affluence,
by effluence.
The flotsam and the jetsam.
Come and get some.
I would not have came here
were it not for you.
You blame the walls,
I bo...
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Categories:
barmaids, addiction,
Form: I do not know?
Queen of Spades
...Opera Star locked in death
Suicide laughs at the gambler’s fate.
Queen of spades steals his last breath.
Tchaikovsky’s opus gets a high rate.
Intelligence befalls the Queen of Spades.
Good lu...
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Categories:
barmaids, fantasy, life, loss
Form: Quatrain