Short Barroom Poems
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Words are written on ministry walls
Deeds are earmarked in history
In between lie the unassuming
In the end recorded as a sombre barroom tale
back-alley barroom
scratchy, juke box 45's
'so lonesome' Hank moans
("I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" by Hank Williams)
For Susan's Single Senryu contest
Oh! She said she'd never done this before,
then she went at him like a barroom whore!
A virgin, she was not,
but so soon he forgot.
Turns out, experience pleases him more!
The patrons wait for him to come in each day
To hear him speak they would even pay
Always smiling, he laughs and sings
And my cash register constantly rings.
At 2 am the clock will chime
For now it’s almost closing time
There he sits the barroom clown,
I wonder where he goes when the bar shuts down.
She presses into the noise
like a tabacco leaf
pressing into the shape
of a coffin nail.
The smoky haze that fills
this darkened place
does little to camouflage
the weariness of life.
Old-time music beats
a familiar rhythm,
and once again she dances
with strangers who fail
to give her silence.
Those drunken nights and barroom fights
now seed my fallowed ground
Where women spurned and lovers churned
rule memory’s lost and found
Those wasted days and sleepless years
like wine have aged within
Fermenting each unwritten page
—reharvesting my sins
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)
Of visits I’m fond, like that buxom blond~~come up and see me some time!*
*In She Done Him Wrong (1933), Mae West as Lady Lou, a barroom singer, says to Captain Cummings (Cary Grant), “Why don’t you come up some time and see me?”
August 25, 2020
entered in the Flirt with Me Contest placed 1st
sponsored by Bobby May
Jane was renown for her very short fuse
'Specially when she was sozzled with booze
She relished a barroom brawl
And took on any and all
With whomever she had divergent views
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
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Placed No. 5 in John Freeman's "Slapstick Limerick" Contest - March 2011