Long Tannoy Poems

I  continued down the driveway and then came to a stop, damn, I thought I’ve come down the wrong driveway it must be further up.Then a man appeared from behind some trees with a...

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The Hammer and the sickle were emblazoned on its tower
This underwater enemy would demonstrate its power
The submarine, in covert mode, torpedoes at the ready
The crosshairs on the monitor were holding nice and steady

The captain said,...

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I am in the Doctors Waiting Room
Waiting for my name to appear on the screen
I’ve been here for twenty minutes
Oh how much longer before I am seen

It’s embarrassing enough for me
Without the whole waiting room...

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A template swap is a switch over to a swimming sword. Swordfish are very pleased at this and dunk their noses into goblets in a godlike fashion. Such etiquette in a swim. Formational framework finds...

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The voices of my present state and feelings echo
down into my mother’s sympathetic ears,
They resonate…in no barriers, she decodes
with her warm understanding and great love overflow.

She hears my footsteps on trails of joy and contentment,
giving...

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This free verse was written from an agnostic point of view 
so may appear biased, against organised religions
I assure you this is not my intention, and it is simply a poem 
For the record, I...

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Chronicles of a long Distant Race

I arrive amidst all the chatter and confusion
that seems to haunt all pre-race activities,
friend greeting friend,
club member greets fellow member,
New shoes, shorts and shirts being shown emulously.
Profusions of Vaseline used...

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A 16 year old apprentice 
Fresh to working underground
Miners telling tragic stories
Of bodies never found .
Greenbach was a huge man 
Working only in his boots and belt 
For every scar on his naked body 
He...

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balls games and bulls
" oh dear and oh no....the elephants are going to the ball game"......speaking clicking clock cloth tells the time but never yells for yelling is a yearling and yearlings never argue with...

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I had just given birth to my 5th child
Was feeling very tired
He came as quite a shock
Four was more than I desired
He was born 10 years after his brothers and sisters
When the family saw him
They...

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It resembles the London Underground inside my messed up mind 
With a network of confusion 
And Tracks that twist and Wind 

Tunnels full of darkness 
stations now disused 
I don’t know where I’m coming from...

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Pie Eyed (for The Night Before Contest)


Twas the night before Christmas and I’d lost me house
I had to get home and sneak past me spouse
She’d sent me to purchase a dozen mince pies
I never expected...

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Reissued from a couple of years back…

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Twas the...

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Forever blowing bubbles

my step it softens firmly
Firmly to the ground
'please mind the gap'
a tannoy over head 
it sounds

people talking on the phone
children I hear screeching
trains thundering past
a religious preacher preaching

security watching passengers
ticket barriers beeping
the background...

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The sudden eighties music craze
had gone beyond the norm
the local supermarket
was swept along by the storm
as more and more of the shoppers
joined in with the revival
filling up on nostalgia
from t-shirts to CDs and vinyl

Reaping the...

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Clickety-clack! sang the wheels on the track 
slowing into a dead end shunting yard; 
crawling aboard as the baggage gets stored 
amidst groans from the red-faced station guard.

Scored by the nasal growl of the tannoy,...

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The hospital corridors are silent
but outpatients reception is busy,
muffled voices are heard behind closed doors,
a shuffling dressing gown stalks the silent halls
in fluffy slippers pushing a drip stand,
waiting patients just in from the cold 
disrobe....

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Standing by the rail, watching in anticipation,
Expecting that my knowledge will prevail,
Thirty,one and a half tons of flesh and blood,
All pounding over the divot ground,
Mists Of sweat, exhaled breath hovers in the air,
They get closer,...

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A rat, a mat, an extra large sleeping bag, and a sofa went to a swimming pool and dived in head first. Never mind the salad dressing shouted the orchestra audience from the balconies. Vast...

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I broke my vintage Holland lamp this morning
Just accidentally, when I went
To water the balcony flowers,
With a watering can in my right hand
And with my left hand
I pulled the curtain down too hard 
And my...

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She was in my carriage
Lost in her magazine,
An angel, she sat there,
As a vision in a dream.

I wondered, should I smile at her,
Could I tempt her with my charms,
I imagined we would hit it off,
She...

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