Long Skint Poems

T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club on the base,
jist me and my sisters alone in the...

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DOING A DEL BOY 

So, that was it Fred was gone, and the cats and me were skint
Smelly Gran had left a will but; to where there was just no hint

I am now sitting on...

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Man I'm still standing & demanding though demand is drained
You can look in from outside see but not feel the pain
I’ve been through mad drills harsh anger & changed my face
quitting is Hell my friend...

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The Great Bell of Bow

I feel such a Steam Tug and no Porkies
Some Tea Leaf Half Inched me Jam jar

In me local Nuclear Sub you wouldn’t Christmas Eve it
Almost totally Boracic on the way to...

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The Great Bell of Bow

I feel such a Steam Tug and no Porkies
Some Tea Leaf Half Inched me Jam jar

In me local Nuclear Sub you wouldn’t Christmas Eve it
Almost totally Boracic on the way to...

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Ramblings On A Winter's Day
© Ben Burton

Of all the words that have been written
And all the words yet to be writ
Few will count, most will be canceled
When time records the final answer
Without paean, rhyme, or...

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>The 44th and 45th Presidents of the United States of America.
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author & Poetry Soup Honourably Mentioned

In this, ‘our world,’  of doom and gloom.
Two opposites sit in a room.
Just...

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TOTAL SNAKE"Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is Afghanistan's biggest snake in the grass"ENOUGH SAID
"A very dangerous man" . . .

GULBUDDIN HEKMATYAR 
THE SNAKE IN THE GRASS
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar a people butchererAcid throwing, and high profile murdererA killer of the...

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A Couple Of Nags


A couple of fellows who weren't very bright
Got terribly drunk in the pub one night
It gave them a bit of a shock of course
When in a drunk bet... They each won a...

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i,m a little robin flying around,
looking for food that may be lying around,
up high in the air to see what i can see,
out pops a worm so close to a tree,

i fly down with almighty...

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She come in ter the world as Mary Anne walker, 
But Polly Anne Nichols she took as 'er name.
Frough cicumstance she were a mistress of the night,
And pleasuring the feller's was 'er game.

This pertic'lar evenin'...

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Life’s A Gas


His wife ran away with his very best friend
His poor dog got rabies and went round the bend
So his wife and his dog and his best mate are gone
He’s starting to think his...

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Grouin up in Glesga wis nae mean feat
Pleyin in the back courts an dreepin the wass
Plouterin in puddles manky water sploshing aboot,
Searching in yon mucky middens fur treasure
Thrown oot by the families in the closes.
Fur...

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Here we go again,
I’ll have to count to ten,
It’s Christmas time once more,
Christmas songs ‘n every store.

It’s bound to cost a mint
It’s gunna make me skint
And all for just one day
Please make it go away!

The...

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Good Times... Long Gone

My mind goes back to Apple 
dumplings and BlackBerry dew,
Plums and scuppernongs and 
games of Horshoe,
I skint my knee while I was 
skipping
 rocks, 
I ran barefoot through the 
grass no
 shoes...

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The MP and the Gardener

She works for an M.P. who claims expenses
Gardener cuts grass, digs ponds and mends fences
The MP gets much more than he really needs
The gardener digs a hole lovingly plants seeds
The MP...

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Feel the indigence approaching 
Think of no-one and of nothing else
Heart-breaking, all consuming
Penniless pauper, from a storybook romance

“No mon, no fun”
I hear that
No nothing, no life
No growing full or fat

Who to turn to, who to...

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your mother is your rock,
she has a heart of gold;
she will never tell you
the love for you she does hold,
she may yap in every way
just to prove they really do care,
she sits very quiet
as if...

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QUASIMODO

Quasi modo geniti infantes,*
“Why was I not made of stone like thee,”
Up-far-up, he hugs the cold cathedral gargoyle.

Are there tears when they beat his humpback?

Do we care? Do we?
Sophistical** sophistication of the mob

both skint and...

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darkest hour of December night                              ...

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Can’t stand it anymore
So dirt broke
Can’t afford to build a life
Too ill to work
Too busy to work
Too many failures
No chance to succeed
Nothing going right
Why is life so God Damn hard?
I scream to God to help
He...

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Potted Sinks
Round around round around on and on and on
Makes me dizzy this crazy ing thing
That spans decades almost centuries

One time France is the bad guy
Another Germany is the enemy
Then Russia is the opponent
Not to...

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20 Cents
The guy gave the war concern 20 cents
This was enough to buy ten bullets
Which would kill ten enemy soldiers
If fired accurately by a good soldier
He'd give more if he could afford it
But he was...

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My dearest wife, you are my chief, you guide with natural ease,
You’re wonderful to live with, and you always aim to please.
What can I say? You’re brill, you’re fab, you are my guiding star,
However, I...

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Where i live is so serene countryside green and wild,
To lose yourself here , takes me back to a child;
When puddles were oceans ,and mountains the trees,
you wandered home  happy, black face and skint...

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