Hobnail Poems - Poems about Hobnail

Three Legged Table

...Three-Legged Table

As I drove through an old neighborhood, I spotted a garage sale sign. 
I pulled off to the side of the street. With impatience, I couldn't get out
of the car quick enough. Rig...

My Coping Method Fraught With Utmost Futility Thus

...My coping method fraught with utmost futility thus...

My professional treatment plan
predicated upon duress in extremis
hence Electroconvulsive therapy,
a last ditch effort I avail
and surrend...

Luxuriating Showering On a Cold Winter Day

...Despite emotional, financial, grammatical...
any woe that doth assail
whereat early in the 
morning until late at night tub bail
sinking craft, not possible 
(essentially 24/7), I bewail,

whe...

My Treatment Plan

...Electroconvulsive therapy,
     a last ditch avail
able effort optioned, aye bewail
as desperation if standard
     psychological measures peter

     out leave ving paul tree
(paltry) choice,...

Antiques and Curios

...Antiques and Curios

A collection of Antiques and curios,
Covered in dust on a cellar floor.
Things once made for a purpose,
No longer of use anymore.
 
Record Player with wind-up handle,
Onc...

Jarrow Crusaders

...They were strong men of steel
In flat caps and hobnail boots,
hunger pains all they could feel
dressed in Sunday best suits,

poor diet of potato and marrow 
no more ships, unemployment high 
...

Five Two One

...(521 Australian servicemen were killed in
the Vietnam War.  Menzies = Australian
leader, septic tanks = "yanks", 
Queensberry = fair, as in the rules of
boxing, bonzer = good)

I'm Billy Bohane...

We'Re All Hungry Ghosts

...How intoxicated I am with the swirl of armies, bodies and armor.
Trampled by those running away from or running to war.
But we're all hungry ghosts,
moving towards our deaths with a casual sense,
...

Pin the Tail On the Donkey

...Pin The Tail On The Donkey 

Eyes exquisitely piercing 
Cut me deep with lure, 
Seeing all that's fearsome 
Yet so innocent and so pure. 
Fluttering like a butterfly, 
Squinting like a whore, ...

Matchstick Bikes

...Matchstick Bikes 

To tinkers and toilers 
     I salute, 
From mending boilers 
     to weaving jute, 
Man and boy 
     for generations, 
I will unemploy 
     your occupations. 

To bre...

To Catch a Butterfly

...To Catch A Butterfly

I stand beside 
a wilderness
    to gaze upon 
    unfamiliar shores
where life once 
appeared so intimate
    midst the savage 
    lion's roars,

Yet I'm detached 
...

Dog End

...The pup is tired now
Sleeping like a baby
Looking Innocent
Dreaming of her days victories
Her head inside a slipper

Biting the hand that fed
Beating up an hobnail boot
Chasing the mop that w...

The Weeping Fish Orchestra

...I once awoke into a dream
And there I saw a sight.
Adrift, a draft of Daffodils
Breezed on a hard day's night.

Still looking up and at the sky,
A Dandelions nest, 
Shone down like rays of But...

Hapless In Helmand

...four star circus
side show of war,
thugs on a hillside
another killing floor,

greedy men squabble loudly
gulping down the poor,
coalition vacuole
futility galore,

sobbing children in the ...

Telescopic Observations

...Cover me in feathery down,
warmth against winter chills and frozen  ground
leave me to sleep in deep refrain,
until tidal waves recreates my home again.

Step, step, stepping in deep snow,
Hobn...

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