Long Postmen Poems

December 2017

Extremely high winds are forecast due to an influx of sprouts over Christmas . My New Year’s resolution to avoid chocolate is not the only dark cloud on the horizon

January 2018

We have eaten the...

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In the eye of the hurricane, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : En el ojo del hurracan

(Ninth in the collection : Metafora del Desafuero, published – according to the editor, Alejandro 
Duque Amusco – not...

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As darkness covers our piece of the world what goes on that we cannot see,
A milkman delivering his milk for us to get out of bed and have a pot of tea,
A madman drunk stalks...

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who did not sit beside me
but stood in
the side view of me

just to start
with her sad
story of a
husband that pass away
(sorry for your loss, i said )

only to let her ask many
thousands of questions
about me...

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The politically correct nonsense of today is so very absurd!
The language of my native land has become so terribly blurred,
By those who devote themselves to concocting such inane idiom.
Such prattle is as puzzling to me...

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stepping out of the post office, I turned towards sounds of loud
crashing glass and shredding metal. Through the bright summer morning I
can see what just happened, two cars (actually, a guy in a pickup truck...

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Virus

No dining no cinema no going out
No football or festivals
No getting about

No meeting a colleague no hugging a friend
No pubs no clubs gatherings
When will we see the end?

This virus has us locked inside
Us over seventies
All...

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Buy ink which remains indelible on the soul
Lick your stamps as they should never lick themselves
Keep envelopes open to suggestions and to be stretched
Hide them in a dry place or pine desk out of trouble...

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My three girls
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Some of them are living ghosts,
they have buried their roots
under newer foundations,
or they still live anonymously
under a rock of poverty.

If you asked me to name them
I could not, for they all had names
too similar to...

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Ultimate wish with the great thoughts,
No one knows today is my birthday. 
Knowing you is my hardest task of the day, 
Never thought one will wish me like this, 
Off course, it is not for...

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I’ve got to get away from here
And this time I do know why
My town is just changing way too fast
To the point where I’m about to cry
They’re shutting all my favorite stores
They’re building wider roads
The...

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Dream On!

Clouds hang low today covering the ridge,
if I drive up there on my bike I can hide in 
a steel blue cloud and people will say:
where is he? Him! He is trying to find...

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A pensioner's long walk today,
Yes, the mailman's been, no yah!
What bills did arrive this way?
Postman, postman, stay away,
I am putting up a sign,
"BAN THE BILLS!" about frigging time!
if all bill payers went on strike,
Bills would...

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Sophie Helen is our beyond protective black cocker spaniel.
She races out to meet the rapists and murders
They come in the form of Amazon deliveries.
Postmen and house painters, she previews them all.
Expecting their intentions are notoriously...

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