Long Apologised Poems

A nice couple. The Tale of Jean and William. Part 1

Jean Fallen was born in 1999 and had a lonely childhood. 
She grew up in Redfern but never went to school.
She lived with her mother...

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One morning early a Dad and his son Tom went for a walk in the country, they journeyed
through the still mist looking for flowers for the boy's Mom, but they did not see many.
Just then...

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What if poetry soup just shut down 
with all your work before you edited
always copy you work even if you have
to go to the library check your 
titles as well sometimes 
identity thieves actually rip...

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To God be the glory - great things he has done.



‘I am Eddie Rowlands, I became a Christian in 1985, at that time I also experienced evil opposition toward me, to the extent of being...

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Ted’s libido has now gone astray
He refused a quick roll in the hay
So what could be the cause -   
It’s the male menopause   
He’s been grumpy and snappy all day!
 
His...

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Joy and I have been to Melbourne and we’re coming home at last,
From a family get together that I’m glad has come and passed,
It was good to catch up with the rellies who we haven’t...

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I wondered home one night with the stars, 
With my kingly rugby shirt on encompassing, 
My blue Bec 40 electric wheelchair, no bars, 
Which I was also the king of notwithstanding. 

Irrespective of my supposed...

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Mind, spirit and soul 
Truth be told, I gave you my all 
Friends didn't have to know about us 
This was for my heart and yours to know. 

I loved. 
Took my heart on a...

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The sadness of a joker is never known
Laughing in public so people assume it must be even better at home
Depression stays by my side so I'm never alone 
The sadness of a joker is never...

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Grandma's Pets

My granda went away to sea
For many months on end
He'd travel on a fishing boat
With his brother and a friend

He used to write home regularly
And tell some quite tall tales
About being in a far-away...

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I noticed her eyes all from the start,
And from that moment hoped we wouldnt ever part,

She can sing and manage and do so much stuff,
When i worked this all out i smiled and let out...

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He said, "it's like I have a condom on my heart. I don't want it to be there but it's there"
He says he has been through shit in his life,in his relationships 
He doesn't have...

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Maybe this can't be saved.

One more short year and I'll never see her again. I'll always be wondering about 
her but it's better left that way. Never been able to face the truth. Even now.

We...

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I am a woman in my fifties, and have suffered widow pain
I said that I would never join, the dating game again
But never have I been so struck, and confidence unfurl
Met this young man the...

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It was a nightmare of a boat trip
I almost choked to death on an orange pip
They did not strain the juice well
And from a small pip, I gasped for air and started to swell
If it...

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One walked out
One walked in
I sat nervously in reception
Waiting for my torture to begin

Bouts of laughter came from the interview room
Knocking my confidence with each bout
I didn’t want to be there anymore
Tempted to just forget...

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I remember every minute of the first day we met, 
It was raining, coming in to the reception you got wet,

At a mutual friend’s wedding, you came with a date,
You sat next to me, this...

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With a basket woven brown, covered in linen, hiding goodies under cross stitched flowers
She with the Crimson Hoodie, and a smile like cookies and cream
Heading for the cottage so cute, and the walls pale white,...

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I hate love.

Love is not just a feelings that gets you high.
on seeing your partner at the twinkling of an eye
Its a  deep response that make a hot fire become cold as ice
Even if...

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I’m excited, I got a job
I now work for Bob Bob’s Gob Shop
They asked me to stand outside and sell
These white packets, of what I cannot tell

But I was shifting the goods a hundred an...

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I did not leave like a storm.
I left like sediment—
quiet, heavy,
having learned the language
of sinking.

You called it love,
but I was always the chalk outline
beneath your ego’s bootprint,
the echo that apologised
for being stepped on.

You didn’t raise...

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People may not understand some of the words on this page I write 
As I write a thank you letter to an artist who's music saved my life
When I was alone your albums made me...

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I read Darryl Ashton’s poem Called Pinocchio Rex and this brought back 
memories of a childhood incident

When I grew up we had a smallholding – the house was called ‘Longacre’ as we 
had over an...

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A version of you I loved and one that will always be mine—  
While you speak to me with words now,  
I looked at you with feelings inside.  
You greeted me with...

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That damn weekly times (circa 1900), 
Afternoonified with Gigglemugs
sending me off my chump
Editors Half-rats, Not up to dick,
the meater.

Genderfied, I am
A woman of incredible script,
stylograph committed,
deemed a whooperup,
yet her prose is
umble-cum-stumble.

The longing expressed
through the lovers...

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