Long Liniment Poems

In Jan, nineteen thirty-three, there was man called Mick Malloy
At the time he was an alcoholic and a poor homeless boy.
A young Irish fire-fighter out of work
He left his home in Donegal - to find...

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Be Lineate Sir

Jack and Jill went up a hill.                          ...

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Remember the days of
                   yesteryear
when family ties were
         ...

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(POETIC DIALOGUE BETWEEN JCV AND RICHY)


PRESTIGIOUS JCV
I told the moon my story last night... I never knew love could hurt like a heart attack.


RICHY ROYAL
If ever you could kiss the moon and romance the stars,...

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I want to be your cool friend
And the same time your best friend
I want to be your homeboy
Your teddy bear and your play toy
I want to be the only one you will share you bed...

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I look around the world 
guess what i found?
An ocean of love beyond all 
bound
I have found diamond and 
gold all in one piece
I have found an enormous 
peace
I have found a gift so 
priceless
I...

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I stood at the rail, watching a filly called Midnight Black
and breathed in the pungent scent of liniment and leather.
Love for Thoroughbred racing lures me back to the track,
even when the course is sloppy from...

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Should I not shut my lips
Over what one rarely naked strips?
The dirty that should first be washed,
Then perfumed, before at them rushed…
All that which for eternity mustn’t be revealed;
My lascivious embraces I had better I...

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Remembering the days of yesteryear
when family ties were held most dear,
gas lamps flickered in the back street
while most of us danced a different beat.
Tragic alleyways of smog and smut
“Live over the brush”* branded a sl*t,
silhouettes...

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Just in a twinkle of an eye
A shining star goes off the sky
Before liniment could get to the aching sore
The transition is made through the exit door
Faster than the drop of rain from the cloud
The...

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The sunshine of my world 
A lady That pierce my darkest night
Penetrates through the deepest part of my heart
Finding the glory of the future

The glory of the morning
With her magnificent smile radiating the atmosphere
like the...

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My name's Rocky Balboa,
Some say I'm old as soil;
An' if you call me punchy,
My blood begins to boil!

Mickey's gone to heaven,
Apollo and Adrian too;
Now I'm stuck with Paulie,
A bum without a clue!

I'll wake up in...

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Written, March 24, 2025
For Contest,  Your Choice E sponsor, Brian Strand

            ******************
hands aegis
        sculpting lullabies
 cradling
...

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She's up in the morning
two hours before dawn
has done most of her chores
before the lights come on

Already milked the cows
and gathered up the eggs
even put liniment 
on the horse’s sore legs

Bacon and eggs are cooked
the...

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Spin the bottle ...
give some unlucky lips a drunken kiss
Pin the tail on the donkey; 
though you didn’t miss 
on purpose you bosom grope insist,
when you stagger slipped
Tilt the bottle ...
pour liquid social stumbles into...

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More often, this soul widens farther
than the breath of a moon... and through
glittering eyes, I saunter on the ledge
 of woodland,
past time's curfew and nobility: a wanton stroll
by a maiden fondling the ripeness
of cherries------ that...

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Like a baby taking his first steps
Those tentative ones 

You walked in, delved into depths 
Unaware of the hurt, the hidden scars
Placing your heart on the line,
With no fear, what joy or sadness lay ahead

My...

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Go sound the trumpet of 
victory, 
and tell the tale of man's 
allegory.
The world of men has been 
given a unique gift, 
that will change the face of 
humanity aloft.
Unto us a precious child is...

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You wouldn’t know he was A Good Drummer,
Until surfaced the Period of Summer;
You wouldn’t know: Giver of lion’s fight,
Until he felt challenges getting tight;
You wouldn’t know: loved Avocado Pear,
Until you grabbed his and this wouldn’t...

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Now he’s going for a treatment 
That might swallow much liniment
And lick up copious supplement ;
About this, no long argument …

Watching was I Sir Cecil hop,
Not once, not twice, in real pain stop,
His discharging sweat...

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He rubbed me with some liniment, making me sneeze
But still I would not relent. I held fast.

He rolled me down the hill, and I landed in a tar bucket.
I laughed so loudly, the cows began...

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A fiercely tight as light garment
You won't spare cruel comment;
To put it on a self torment,
To take it off: you shall lament.

Garment's troubles wearers foment
And the needless pains augment,
Sooner on your waist liniment:
A sweet fashion–imposed...

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Need I keep watching your pretences:
You're good only at using tenses!
And I need not mind your courtesies:
Put you I have in parenthesis,
Catholic your inconsistencies,
On this could write a Master's Thesis.

Now, it's certain you're no monument,
Though...

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For all I can say, The Worst Disease
Is the one we cannot fetch its ease,
Clear-eyed would trifle with its treatment,
While hospitals have its liniment:
The Danger asking for a Bank Loan
And one sure of priest’s prayer...

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One Two Many

Startled by the sight of
the horse in my bath tub
I stumbled into the den
feeling blindly for the bottle.
Horse liniment for the soul
“hair of the dog that bit ya”
enough to make the horse
leave without...

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