Best Cold Sober Poems

Sleepless nights
Held myself tight 
All alone 
I’m on my own
Tell me you love me 
Tears down my face 
Throwing myself all over the place 
Filled with anger filled with hate 
Why did I leave my heart to break?
You knew what you were doing 
You never...

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I blame me brother for the likes of this predicament,
when we pub crawled up to Bunyip, and where our night was spent.
Thank God I wasn’t in the driver’s seat, ‘cause we wouldn’t be alive, 
but me brother Ron drives better when his reading’s one point...

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Not too long ago, back about 1929
Was conceived a boy, name of Danny Fine
Born on a Thursday, 24th of October
A day the stock market turned stone-cold sober

When the crash was over, five days later
The Fine family fortune had totally cratered
They'd lost all their wealth; Mr....

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The Highwaymen softly play
Me And Bobby Magee
And for the next four hours 
Every single drink is free.
Order what you like friend
And stick it on the slate
Tonight we’re saying goodbye
To my best and oldest mate.

On the bar in isolation stands
The Absent Friend’s Drink,
At the end of...

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It’s ten years later
I’ve finally hit paydirt
It’s the motherload

I didn’t strike gold
I struck a deal with myself
To help me grow old

Not act like a child
But first I had to grow up
And not act so wild

I’m stone cold sober
Bipolar under control
Mind, body and soul

Now I enjoy...

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In the haze 
   of lies and doubts
      all that's glinting and prisming
         with mythical, magical light

             ...

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I was strolling down a side street of our little town last night.
Did I say strolling, no that’s wrong; I was a sad and sorry sight,
And God knows what the time was, but I knew that it’s past ten,
‘cause that’s what time the pub shuts...

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AROUND THE WORLD IN ….

Phileas Fogg sought to amaze
And circle the world in eighty days
Long before the plane

One night, in an alcoholic state,
I bet I could do it in twenty-eight
Using boat and train

I didn’t give a lot of thought,
Just staggered to the nearest port
And sailed...

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Stone cold sober
I was one day
When a lady
Stood in my way

She smiled at me
Like something weird
Then just like that
She disappeared!

Was she a ghost
Or a lost soul?
Or some actress
Playing a role?

Like an omen
Of things to come
She blocked my way
But left me dumb

Those who vanish
By day or...

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don’t
blink
or else
the gravel
will harden your sight -
victory of weeping angels.
the waterfall of tears - Niagara iced over.
beware foreboding avarice of twilight, capricious wings, ferocious-flying fangs

Who
might
find you
(The Doctor)
but will she be late?
panic hears the tardis wheezing
the quantum-locked humanoids cover their eyes to hide
from a powerful wake...

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In the haze 
                                  of lies and doubts
    ...

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Heavy lipstick and curled hair, 
Like a photograph;
But I feel the energy 
whenever you’re near me; 
I’m nothing like the rest of them 
that’s why 
you’re scared of me;
my heart on my sleeve 
telling you exactly what I need;
Flimsy dresses and an absent stare
Oh honey,...

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Can I be seeing what I think I am seeing?
Those who would have sold their own grandmother,
Before the outbreak,
Now enduring the cold for the sake of the old turkey,
Those whose limbs were so jerky,
Surviving on beef jerky for the sake of the old turkey.
And am...

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It was nearly summer break, 
 We met as she bumped into me. 
She fell and I helped her up,
That was only the beginning.

We spent summer together,
Being with her, it just felt right.
A thought invaded my mind,
I couldn’t help but think “Kiss her.”

It caught me...

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