Short Pub Poems

Slug and Lettuce Pub
Beer-bellies and din
She married a bar fly...

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last caw at the pub
black stilettos filling in
spaces between puffs...

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 toilet in the pub
in pee-shaken atmosphere
aroma of soap
...

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The sign at my local pub made no sense to me.
It stated that Designated Drivers Always Drink Free....

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An Irish man called Pat
All-day in a pub he sat
Sharing a joke
Having a smoke
How patriotic is that...

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"I got lost on my way home
From the pub last night
But it was a bit foggy"
"Mist?"
"I must have been"...

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A rather raucous pub
exists inside my head;
I go there, get a beer,
and listen to what’s said....

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fishing boat at dock
hearty laughter from the pub
splash!    moon breaks in two

Dave Austin...

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Once there was a farmer
Who rode to the pub on a llama
He said "In Peru 
It's the thing to do
Isn't she a charmer?"...

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Why hastiness? 
And this is not our last dinner
O, my lady the pub is opened till dawn
And the dawn is beautiful in your eyes...

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To Irish green eyes
With a devilish twinkle
A toast at the pub

As long as there’s an Ireland
An Irish song will be sung...

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funeral parlor
I tiptoe in
to say goodbye--
in stealth flight
a fearless owl


Prev. Pub. in RIBBONS, Fall 2020
Vol 16 #3...

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He wanted to be a contender
So Marlon set out on a bender
But nary a pub
Sold beer by the tub
Elvis knew he'd return to cinder...

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Calli the drunken zombie cub
can often be found in the pub
for this is why
she's so often high
and passed out drunk in the tub!...

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Ben went to the pub for a shot
But when he got there he forgot
Until a nurse
Opened her purse
To show off the needle she brought...

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Trump, Putin, and Beelzebub
Drank tea in an Helsinki pub
Boasting of sins
Two Mickey Finns
Enquired, "Are you from the Hair Club?"...

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her bed clothes
laid across her bed--
a trek to town?
her failing memory
won't lead her home


Prev. Pub. in TSA Anthology 2020...

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On Fridays, we go to the pub
Like spokes of a wheel to an hub
A whiskey or two
May turn the air blue
So we drink pale ale by the tub...

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this emotion
like a fisherman is pulling the net,
and the blood,
early in the morning still preoccupied with its pub …
bawdy house …...

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He continues to call his love
She wouldn’t answer inside the pub
She ignored his call
Not wanting to fall
In love with a clueless gov’t...

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There was a longshoreman named Joe
in the pub he let the beer flow
	when he played pool
	he fought the fool
wanting to cash in on his show...

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I set up, right away,
my swing 
on the branches of 
my dream tree
so that I can swing freely
on the swing
anytime I go to a pub
to drink...

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W H Davies was born in  pub
poetry became his guiding hub
Whilst train-jumping across to Klondyke
lost a leg & could no longer ride his bike...

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My first time here
Feeling Queer
Perhaps a beer
Will allay the fear
If I see her appear
Will she be my dear
And hold me near
Or disappear...

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A pub that's typically Welsh
Has music the English can't squelch
Hymns and arias rule
But, like any gene pool,
The loudest is always a belch!...

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