BROKEN DOWN ANGELS
...BROKEN DOWN ANGELS
It disny seem that long ago
Toddling and having fun,
Crawling then walking along the floor
And learning how tae run.
Potty trained and full eh life
They’d run you af yer...
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Categories:
bedsits, abuse, addiction, dark, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Butting Heads with the Bygones
...Bygones are again beginning.
Big Nose Kate and Doc Holliday
bang and toss China plates,
bothering my ears with their
blooming Southern inhospitality.
Bedbugs, I never want em,
because they bi...
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Categories:
bedsits, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Finding Godo
...Fifteen years in the same apartment,
before that twenty-five years in a bungalow.
Earlier still; digs, dumps and bedsits.
Peripatetic ambulation's
traveling in circles.
Left that world, travelle...
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Categories:
bedsits, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Legionnaire
...Just a quick notification that
A new resident was on his way
Giving us enough time to get
A room ready for him to stay
Not our usual type of client
A Veteran French Legionnaire
It was beyond ...
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Categories:
bedsits, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
I Dream of Steam
...The 'tock', 'tock', 'tock' of the station clock,
the clickety clack of the board.
Telling the time and destinations
but no one to cry 'All aboard!'
The 'bang', 'bang', 'bang' of the carriage d...
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Categories:
bedsits, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Convert
...Convert
Old factory was due to be knocked down and turned into rubble, recycle the materials and use the land again. A new start? Yet this building is structurally fine, a few broken windows and mis...
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Categories:
bedsits, community, history, house, old,
Form: Free verse