A Somber Mind Dulls the View
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I looked at the Spring garden, I was about to paint,
knowing the new tubes of paint I ordered, were due, any time soon.
I saw that many of the rose petals had faded,
from red to mauve, some that...
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Categories:
postie, angst, anxiety, art, depression,
Form: Free verse
Lurid’s Tale
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Name is Lurid…most people call me Lou
I deliver dreams and nighmares to the dead
See people get it wrong
Heaven can’t connect to earth
It’s cut off to reduce pain
He’ll is connected though s...
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Categories:
postie, poems,
Form: Free verse
before the end of years
...Coming to an End
On the terrace this morning, it is warm,
sun has not
switched on the heaters yet, and wonders if the postie
His brother was sending him chewing tobacco rolled
up in newsp...
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Categories:
postie, anti bullying, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
Just Shaking It Off
...lightning flashes on horizon
bones ache
roof leaks
trembles under foot
friend is way overdue
some truck has my number
scratches of little feet in the walls
postie brings more bills
floor crea...
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Categories:
postie, hope,
Form: Free verse
Thanks Postie
...You bring the mail unfailingly
In sun and wind and rain
With cheery smile and bright “Hello"
And "Turned out nice again"
May I suggest a strategy
To brighten all our lives
Bring a mil...
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Categories:
postie, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
All Those Invaders
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A man’s home is his castle it sure needs a moat
Or, even better to get there, his own, ferry boat
Cause’, it seems his castle is not quite his home
After he has finished with the visitors synd...
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Categories:
postie, appreciation, peace, tribute,
Form: Couplet
Unhappy Valentine's Day
...This Valentine’s, cupid may fail
No flowers or cards in the mail
Our postie called Mike
Joined colleagues on strike
Their actions are beyond the pale!
Our postal workers started a...
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Categories:
postie, sad love, valentines day,
Form: Limerick
Lament For Tardy Post
...The sun is passed its zenith, the postman’s day is done;
Nigh 50 miles his horse has trod, just two thousand
More to go. My little case is a lighter load, much greater
He has born, yet still the p...
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Categories:
postie, satire,
Form: Sonnet
I Wonder What Today Will Bring
...Sunbeams flood into my room like a tide on the rise creeping in.
Woe betide me be, wet or dry, warm or cold, enlightened or beam blighted.
Dawn bears beams of revelations, comings and goings, flots...
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Categories:
postie, day,
Form: Free verse
The Desire To Deliver
...When growing up as a only child
always so loved to get a letter
living in countryside few folk around
postie delivery made me feel better
Leaving school no great intentions
but had within me r...
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Categories:
postie, desire, life,
Form: Rhyme
Blind Views
...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 o...
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Categories:
postie, life, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Drinking Drugging
...Drinking drugging, chug a lugging,
Cruising down the poncy street,
Drunk a 40 cats a hugging,
Look out 4 this ***** on heat,
Brain a thumpin, blood a pumping,
Dogs a humping, jelly beans ...
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Categories:
postie, adventure, me, drug,
Form: Ballad
Postie Me
...I tried being a postie 40 years ago,
attacking dogs sorta made me slow,
used to drive em off with a big bike slam,
postmaster cracked up bout bent bikes maam...
and sent me off to coventry,
s...
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Categories:
postie, adventure, me,
Form: Ballad
Postie
...He likes to wear short trousers in the summer
Although he does not really have the legs
They’re not exactly pretty or alluring
When they handed out the pins he got the dregs
He keeps them both e...
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Categories:
postie, funny, life, urban
Form: I do not know?
Whistling Jim and Meg Macauley, and How They Met
...This is the tale of Whistling Jim and how he met his maiden fair.
By the shores of Richmond's river, by the shelves of sparkling water
In the shining super market, Meg Macauleey, Nimble Fingers
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Categories:
postie, parodylonging, longing, red,
Form: Narrative
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