Best Speakeasy Poems

“Little boy, little boy, where have you been? Down in the cellar drinking your father’s gin?”
“Not I,” said the boy with a drunken laugh. “Who am I to drown in father’s wrath?”
“Little boy, little boy, you smell strongly of sin! I shall ask you once...

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"The Silent Speakeasy"



she guevara she
sashay speakeasy 
monotone in neon poetry

notes not belonging
to diatonic scale of key
chromatic passenger a new story

she guevara she

Anagrams
rebellious 
sudoku kings and queens

silent 
dusty 
schoolmaster (take off your te)

sedate 
the eyes

bluest 
glare
glean

she guevara she
the silent speak easy

(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)



“Golden Years” / Bowie
https://youtu.be/HRD0ghlFSgk




key,...

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"Table for one sir?..."
 
Here I am
A little bit older
A little bit wiser
I've been tested
 
Pushed to the limit to the brink
of insanity where I dip my “I” when I think
(my mind thinks even more when I sleep
 never letting a plausible concept deteriorate in...

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You make me feel

 I don't even think this could be a poem

Im just gonna speak


You make me feel like I was meant for something


Purpose…

I already knew I had one


This is probably the hardest thing ive ever had to explain 

So, I already knew I...

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“Would you like another drink sir?”
“Sir?”
 
Vision blurred vision blurred
Tonight more than my drinks have been stirred
Blurred vision blurred vision
As the bottle empties the poison’s made its incision…
 
 
But awe man it’s not over
Willing of course on the assumption that the Lord says the...

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The snow on the ground is aglow at midnight

A sheet of moonlight

Like a sketchpad with shadows
Stretched from tree limbs furiously penciled in,
A speakeasy dance floor from the 1920s
Mobbed and sashaying,
Doing the jitterbug,

With black arms and black legs
Pumping stutter-stepping,
Swaying forward then back
Hands risen as if polishing...

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