Tiger Davis Queensland Ringer
...There was a Ringer in the Basalt, Tiger Davis was his name
As an acrobatic stockman, he was gifted with some fame
On the station quite a hero, but a maniac in town
He didn't win too many, but a fi...
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Categories:
skinful, career,
Form: Ballad
Vineyard Blues
...If ever there was a tale of such woe,
a tale of music, lust, and revelry!
Of Juliet and I, her Romeo,
when the reggae drums put a spell on me.
In my yen for Herbs and thirst for the vine
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Categories:
skinful, drink, wine,
Form: Sonnet
Puberty Blues
...Through all my changes I was a dreamer
and lived a trepidation and a ruse,
but when she lay bare and I between her
I lived the dream in my puberty blues.
In a rush of young blood in curve...
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Categories:
skinful, blue, nostalgia, teen,
Form: Sonnet
Pityful Cows
...they argued until all the cows came home or maybe
for the flies on the wall to rest disperse and achieve
what they do best with detritus and compost of time
pets are embraced by definition a...
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Categories:
skinful, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Too Busy While Not Thinking
...a cellar full of corpses
thirsty bottles and a skinful of salt
too busy while not thinking
and last night is too distant to recall
wi' no purpose there's no need
the sound perimeters are all b...
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Categories:
skinful, betrayal, break up, world,
Form: Lyric
Skin
...Last time I checked,
it was still on my neck,
What now is a mark,
once was a speck,
Protected by the freckle,
I can now never forget,
Tattooed into a bad mood,
the ink I still regret,
Smoot...
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Categories:
skinful, beautiful, feelings, image, life,
Form: Rhyme
First Party
...(Moral Dilemma?)
Her father told her, beware men and strong booze and liquors;
alas she met a boy and she was tempted, and had a skinful:
soon to leave the party to wander home, without her knic...
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Categories:
skinful, confusion, people, social,
Form: Sijo