When My Addiction Speaks
...When my addiction speaks
It's your last hit you say,
I’ll get clean one day.
I'll give up the blow,
After this show.
After this drink I will definitely stop,
I am standing here handcuffed bei...
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Categories:
pokies, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Depressive Uplift
...Me gambling that once held me up now I’m afraid to utter,
has left me really in the dumps and struggling in the gutter.
No more flamin’ pokies will I play; no horses shall I back,
I’m prepared to ...
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Categories:
pokies, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Fragments
...A girl with her hand brushes her hair away
Across her face in just that way
As it renders an image of another girl who’s dead
A young life out of control from a nightmare led
A baby cries loudl...
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Categories:
pokies, memory,
Form: Ballad
A Man Under Stress, a Collaboration With Francis Crasto
...My appreciation Francis Crasto for allowing me to collaborate with you as your 'psychiatrist' on ‘A MAN UNDER STRESS’- A great sequel to your recent poem on your page ‘DIG DEEP’.
Hello...
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Categories:
pokies, humor, rap, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Gambling
...I've never been a gambler
For I've never liked the odds
And out the horse racers
Seems a hell of a job
I don't like the pokies
For it seems a waste of time
Looking at the colours
As they r...
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Categories:
pokies, life, loss,
Form: Ballad
The Old War Vet In the Pub
...This fire warms me, every bit of my soul,
Down at my regular local.
Sitting alone, all the thoughts in my head,
To ponder before they're made vocal.
And the menu for the night on the old chalk ...
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Categories:
pokies, family, remembrance day,
Form: Quatrain
Just a Fool
...I'm just a fool who writes words on a page
and dreams of singing on a stage
but to no avail
someday I'll set sail
and yet- he stares at me
like everything's a freakin' fantasy
and I am left with this...
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Categories:
pokies, friendship, girlfriend-boyfriend, sad, sorry,
Form: Lyric