Long Lorries Poems

Tim’s father had been a refugee once he put down his fight and his gun

The story is that he embarked on the very last ship leaving East Prussia

Under siege tanks and bombs from above fireworks...

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The sign actually said ‘Universal Disposal’ but the haggard squalid creature 

Had no time for such ephemeral discourse he could just about spell his name

Kanja meaning water born and his parents had hoped he would...

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"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
                          ...

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Hail, frozen rain blew down from the west ,a biting shattering wind, changes puddles to ice,
Head down keeping the hail from stinging my face, it’s blown sideways so cold feeling sick,
Overcoat soaked right through to...

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I stare at the world through slats in the blind
Which are partly obscuring the dazzle at times
There's nothing particular to spot there today
As even the birds seem to have all flown away

But once in a...

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hear others out there, just beyond my wall-wrapped sharing space
  they break on through, sneaking inside my head
  far above, front-nosed pilots point high-flying seated people tubes
  passengers squeezed in tight, some...

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The Van-Boy got out to open the gate still in his head last night’s date
He did not notice the green signal light a train was coming though not in sight
This crossing was notorious and set...

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I am just a pen in your palm
Flowing effortlessly to impact,
You are the brain to retain my words
For everything I say may not come back
To me again when I become empty.


I am just a liquid...

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That night, in a strange place
I was like a fly
Circling a street light
Reeling…Reeling!
I felt so alone
Fear wrenched my throat
Couldn’t predict
When I would be charred to death

I had heard,
In the cover of dark
Everyone was a robber
Or...

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Why are all these hash slingers
Constantly there on my TV?
When did the ability to cook 
Become reason for celebrity?
Eating for me is just like
Shovelling coal on a fire,
Just adding fuel to keep
Your energy levels higher.
It’s...

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A mouse!
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

No one lived inside the large house.
Well, no one apart from a tiny mouse.
There once was a large family.
But they moved away...

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I have dreamed so many dreams of life in Texas
Of cowboys and of the history I'd find there
So many hours I have been driving 
but all I see are oil wells everywhere .

Long dusty roads...

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I remember when I was a little girl
And the Rag and Bone man came round
On his cart pulled by a horse
All manner of things could be found

A washing machine with a broken ringer
And a bicycle...

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I WILL SIT AND WAIT
COS I KNOW YOU ARE NEVER LATE
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL
OH! MY HEART IS FULL…
FULL OF YOUR LOVE
FILLED WITH PEACE
OH! SUCH BLISS!
I’M SURE YOU LOVE ME
I’M SURE YOU WANT ME
JUST AS I AM
OH,...

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Missions on a selfie stick is described as a result of a sudden appearance. But a carbonated omitted beast is not normally associated with a dramatic spoon and cables dancing are very often fragrant. Neat...

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A walk down Thomas Lane


Knotty Ash Pub  closed on left
On right the boy scout hall
We’re on the  left side of 
the tram tracks dividing
East Prescot Road
Two shops down is the bakery
Where a four...

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the streets are scarred for good and we know it
after the hits of untamed hearts
after this abstract damage of cyclic returnings

there's a window in my chest
a sight of iron garden and crystal steam
where colour of...

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Take me back to a time when have a Pepsi was for merry people at Christmas,
When General Electric fairy lights hung on real trees and pine needles fell,
Father Christmas smoked Pall Mall cigarettes because they...

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Barren laid the roads
At the passing cars and autos I stare
Wishing it was you, seen everyday
But not since last week
An hour has passed since I last saw a bus
Stops crowding all waiting for you
Waiting for...

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People write on paper so that they can refer later,
But this I write in your hearts, where it will be kept, safe, fresh and alive.
We’ve brought upon ourselves calamities, that are sweeping away our communities,
But...

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Here I am to tell you a story
of an old and broken lorry
and it's friend, the old garage,
they were both heroes once.

Back by decades it happened once
that some guy bought a garage.
Believe me was the...

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THE LAST ONE

It’s very cold up North, the ice stretches for miles.
There’s a knock at my window, oh!
 It’s my better half, and he smiles.
“Come in” I said, “Come in and be quick!
Put your sack...

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In these times of plenty 
I see some dreadful scenes,
Yesterday a girl too poor
To have holes in her jeans.
I felt for that lassie
For I know the passion
That the young seem to feel
About following the fashion.

She...

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Miss Garner, Miss Garner. I HATE your Gymkhana,
I loathe every second it's run.
I dread all those horses and obstacle courses,
and everyone else having fun.

Now Mummy is frantic, the panic gigantic;
my pony won't go in the...

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Thursday morning
Day aff
Time to have a think...

Down the M9
To Edinburgh
And walk across the Forth Bridge.


In the car
It's not very far
Only 26 miles,

Last day of sun
A'fore it rains a ton
Time for a few wee smiles.


Wind in...

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