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In frames as large as rooms that face all ways And block the ends of streets with giant loaves, Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise Of motor-oil and cuts of salmon, shine Perpetually these sharply-pictured groves Of how life should be. High above the gutter A silver knife sinks into golden butter, A glass of milk stands in a meadow, and Well-balanced families, in fine Midsummer weather, owe their smiles, their cars, Even their youth, to that small cube each hand Stretches towards. These, and the deep armchairs Aligned to cups at bedtime, radiant bars (Gas or electric), quarter-profile cats By slippers on warm mats, Reflect none of the rained-on streets and squares They dominate outdoors. Rather, they rise Serenely to proclaim pure crust, pure foam, Pure coldness to our live imperfect eyes That stare beyond this world, where nothing's made As new or washed quite clean, seeking the home All such inhabit. There, dark raftered pubs Are filled with white-clothed ones from tennis-clubs, And the boy puking his heart out in the Gents Just missed them, as the pensioner paid A halfpenny more for Granny Graveclothes' Tea To taste old age, and dying smokers sense Walking towards them through some dappled park As if on water that unfocused she No match lit up, nor drag ever brought near, Who now stands newly clear, Smiling, and recognising, and going dark.
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Essential Beauty
My essay, Changency, is a meme This meme has been growing inside of me I've been a carrier Many of us have been I'm not a benevolent character though I've been purposely placing the memetic material on blankets And leaving the blankets in local trading posts I call these 'trading posts' bookstores, universities, colleges, schools...coffee shops, pubs, restaurants, etcetera The beautiful thing is that these memes aren't really on blankets The memes are encoded on the backs of knowledge, truth, and authenticity They come from a place of pain Evolution can be painful (but does it have to be?) Three dimensions are easy to comprehend Four, sure just add time What about spacetime? And a fifth dimension...I don't really know what that means...but some do and they're watching, listening, waiting, and loving us
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Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 9:52 PM UTC
Changency is a meme
After the wind lifts the beggar From his bed of trash And blows to the empty pubs At the road's end There exists only the silence Of the world before dawn And the solitude of trees. Handel on the set mysteriously Recalls to me the long Hot nights of childhood spent In malarial slums In the midst of potent shrines At the edge of great seas. Dreams of the past sing With voices of the future. And now the world is assaulted With a sweetness it doesn't deserve Flowers sing with the voices of absent bees The air swells with the vibrant Solitude of trees who nightly Whisper of re-invading the world. But the night bends the trees Into my dreams And the stars fall with their fruits Into my lonely world-burnt hands. _______ Source: http://www.universeofpoetry.org/nigeria.shtml
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Undeserved Sweetness
In pubs with bar flies. Kronenburg, Becks, Carling, Stella Artois and Fosters, Dancing in our blood, Utterly inured; we are endured by all: The solipsism most profound. And when Johnnie, Jack and Jameson join, The sentimental and the morbid Are conjoined. And **** In the custody of beer halls, The shadows that draw, fade, And calls – e’en Death’s! -- are put on hold! No time; instead, before the last, another pint. For in this hallowed inn, Drinking what’s in the glass, And espousing the glow within, Cares regress. No woes, Or loaded psyches, For when the pressure builds, The best: a jet of yellow bliss, Relieves the pain, On Armitage Shanks' porcelain.
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Sep 29, 2017
Sep 29, 2017 at 6:50 PM UTC
Quinn's
I will re-visit The modern picts, The viking border people Comparing ******* And slapping bellies While giving dheagh shlainte. They've plundered their last village; It's been a while since they protected the walls While sleep sets in. They raid the pubs, Raise a glass shield, Weild a shot glass Singing shlainte, The dragon ships have sailed.
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May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015 at 9:55 AM UTC
Border Vikings of Scotland
Just in the pubs and clubs ******* our own gear around Seemingly, always upstairs For weddings and birthday parties Sorting out miles of wires Well-worked practise But when those amps were turned on With an audible amplified thud As switches are flicked And their lights gaze like tiny red eyes That's when I am ready First number and the drums and bass Connect to create new heartbeats And now I'm into it Not the man in the mill anymore I'm the frontman for the band And the music soars through me As the night goes on and grows The crowd has grown and is dancing Gaining energy from the music And feeding it back to us in turn Now THIS is being alive And so it was By Phil Roberts
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Aug 29, 2016
Aug 29, 2016 at 8:31 AM UTC
WHEN I WAS A SINGER
[1:24 AM, 8/26/2016] +91 77085 85412: (Typing message on whatsapp) A boy meets girl..  gets her attraction.. thinks to speak.. touch.. make her his better half..!   She says yes..!   Both gets together.. coffee shops.. movies..  parks.. pubs.. clubs.. beaches.. parties.. having a lot of fun.. touches each.. enjoying.. nice love story ryt... !   Stop ther.. did u see any love inbetween themm..   noo i didn't.. i saw two people having fun that isn't love.. then how are we thinking its a love story.. look at this story now.. A boy meets girl.. thinks she's cute.. both speaks after few vague  looks.. texts.. looking at their phone contacts thinking to call each.. more texts more calls.. rare meets.. one fine day confirming love.. some day later.. feeling faded out from it.. she reminds him.. he reminds her.. few texts.. he s feeling ****** off of her.. she then speaks someday.. he melts for her voice.. he melts at her images.. he melts when thinking her..!   He s getting confused.. thinking her.. calling her.. messaging her.. !  Hoping everything will b fine.. i see some love in this now        [1:25 AM, 8/26/2016] +91 77085 85412: And he types a crazy crazy big story in the middle of the night for her and she surprises him by being online!  *** shes awake**!!
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Aug 26, 2016
Aug 26, 2016 at 3:46 AM UTC
She's awake at 1:25AM
I am the product of lost civilization; hanging in between circles  of  modernization ; who tells Whether its rising or setting of sun  or globalization The era of bindis Or glamorization Of going to Pubs or piligrimization Of  mothers going to kitty parties   and  of socialization Of works of Picasso's     Or hussainization Of  belief of gods Or Sensationalization Of act of democracy Or  just rationalization Of laws of science Or limitization Of acts of defiance Or patronization Of loss of love                         Or dehumanization Of views of people Or individualization
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Aug 18, 2016
Aug 18, 2016 at 1:26 PM UTC
Product
He is a man of the land, travelling Near and far. To teach those that listen to The music of rot, that there is another Way to open them self up with Rock and Metal hard core. He will clean them of pop and girls Aloud, replace it with the solo guitar And drifts that can go on for hours. He travels the pubs near and far to Give those that much needed fix of Proper music, with a pint they listen Through the night this man of rock The pub star. Long live rock, metal and guitar and this Man of rock and metal that will keep it Alive and never give in to pop music or Bubble pop rather smash it up with his Awesome guitar....
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Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 3:54 PM UTC
Man Of Metal & Rock
THE TORTURING VOICES you see my dad was watching the cricket with us and i watched it with him, and it was very fun, you see we saw australia being beaten by the west indies, because they were so cool, you see, we were the cricket boys and no robber wanted to rob us, because we were into australia’s favourite sport, cricket you see i heard a non realistic image of my father saying brian’s not a mans kid, brian’s not a man’s kid and i was trying to relax and calmly watch the match and my family were unrealistically teasing me, mind you they were having fun and the words they said were different to me as it was for them brian’s not a mans kid, don’t get kidnapped brian be like us brian’s not a man’s kid, and watched the cricket, ya know trevor chappell doing an underarm ball mum called cricket, anything and everything which has everything you hate well, i don’t believe that, i was feeling like trying to be a mans kid brian’s not a mans kid, brian’s not a mans kid and i was getting these awful visions, i wanted these voices to stop you see people in canberra were doing it too, but they looked like fierce kidnappers and i said you can’t get me, i am a sports watcher so i went home and obsessingly watching the cricket and AFL and rugby league, rugby union you name the sport i watched it, and i fell asleep in front of the sport you see i have this vision that mens kids watch the sport, mens kids watch the sport brian’s not a mans kid, **** off ya hooligan away from us you see, i wanted at that stage a hooligan to my dad and i had someone grab me outside a club and i kicked him saying, get off me ya kidnapper, you won’t get ya hands on me mate and dad was watching the cricket and enjoyed it, but i got frustrated with all that teasing i didn’t want to be kidnap victim and i hate being my families or friends little teasie i battle voices saying how is our little tease doing hey but i hated when people wanted to bully me, saying your family are like us, your not i said i like sport and they said, no you don’t, your family does, and your not like your family mate, your like us now man i told my voices to **** off, and they said, your not like your family, your like us and this made me into a little 2 year old boy, i hated that voice i remember i loved watching agro, which was a funny puppet on channel 7, and the mens kids said don’t watch agro, watch cheezeTV, which was the cartoon show on the other channel and my voices going crazy saying, you are a crazy person, who is too old for baby agro and you are not like your family, your still like us, buddy i screamed out, LEAVE ME ALONE, i am a sports watching mans kid and dads image said brian’s not a mans kid, brian’s not a mans kid but it could’ve been greame thrones kidnapper or patrick dunbars kidnapper i said voices, ‘stop', i wanted to be like my family, they said you are not like your family, your still like us and i said, they look cool, and you guys look stupid, please leave me alone there is also a man who wanted me and my brother tied to a pole, but we felt we weren’t immortal, but cool i went into pubs to dance and watch the sport and i felt like a cool man brian’s not a mans kid brian’s not a mans kid, stay in there koomarri man, get ****** mate went the little homebody kid as i was watching the canberra bushrangers baseball team played, yeah totally awesome dude brian’s not a mans kid, I WISH IT’LL ALL STOP
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Jun 25, 2015
Jun 25, 2015 at 2:38 AM UTC
VOICES BACK IN THE 90S, SPORTS WATCHER
THE TORTURING VOICES you see my dad was watching the cricket with us and i watched it with him, and it was very fun, you see we saw australia being beaten by the west indies, because they were so cool, you see, we were the cricket boys and no robber wanted to rob us, because we were into australia’s favourite sport, cricket you see i heard a non realistic image of my father saying brian’s not a mans kid, brian’s not a man’s kid and i was trying to relax and calmly watch the match and my family were unrealistically teasing me, mind you they were having fun and the words they said were different to me as it was for them brian’s not a mans kid, don’t get kidnapped brian be like us brian’s not a man’s kid, and watched the cricket, ya know trevor chappell doing an underarm ball mum called cricket, anything and everything which has everything you hate well, i don’t believe that, i was feeling like trying to be a mans kid brian’s not a mans kid, brian’s not a mans kid and i was getting these awful visions, i wanted these voices to stop you see people in canberra were doing it too, but they looked like fierce kidnappers and i said you can’t get me, i am a sports watcher so i went home and obsessingly watching the cricket and AFL and rugby league, rugby union you name the sport i watched it, and i fell asleep in front of the sport you see i have this vision that mens kids watch the sport, mens kids watch the sport brian’s not a mans kid, **** off ya hooligan away from us you see, i wanted at that stage a hooligan to my dad and i had someone grab me outside a club and i kicked him saying, get off me ya kidnapper, you won’t get ya hands on me mate and dad was watching the cricket and enjoyed it, but i got frustrated with all that teasing i didn’t want to be kidnap victim and i hate being my families or friends little teasie i battle voices saying how is our little tease doing hey but i hated when people wanted to bully me, saying your family are like us, your not i said i like sport and they said, no you don’t, your family does, and your not like your family mate, your like us now man i told my voices to **** off, and they said, your not like your family, your like us and this made me into a little 2 year old boy, i hated that voice i remember i loved watching agro, which was a funny puppet on channel 7, and the mens kids said don’t watch agro, watch cheezeTV, which was the cartoon show on the other channel and my voices going crazy saying, you are a crazy person, who is too old for baby agro and you are not like your family, your still like us, buddy i screamed out, LEAVE ME ALONE, i am a sports watching mans kid and dads image said brian’s not a mans kid, brian’s not a mans kid but it could’ve been greame thrones kidnapper or patrick dunbars kidnapper i said voices, ‘stop', i wanted to be like my family, they said you are not like your family, your still like us and i said, they look cool, and you guys look stupid, please leave me alone there is also a man who wanted me and my brother tied to a pole, but we felt we weren’t immortal, but cool i went into pubs to dance and watch the sport and i felt like a cool man brian’s not a mans kid brian’s not a mans kid, stay in there koomarri man, get ****** mate went the little homebody kid as i was watching the canberra bushrangers baseball team played, yeah totally awesome dude brian’s not a mans kid, I WISH IT’LL ALL STOP
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i can no longer understand how now, this sleeplessness at night, when the world is waking in other places so far away from me, to the ethereal powders of the breeze, that paints the morning with its poetry, as the phantom of the love i love, causes me to awaken with a cry. It's going to rain, rain, it's going to rain, those sleek-silver drops will take me back again, to those cobbled, winding streets, the raucous, song-filled pubs, and the green, the green, the red-brick, granite and oh! the green, the steaming Earl Grey tea, of which i love with a yearning need, waiting, waiting for me, on that precious island on the sea.
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Jul 10, 2010
Jul 10, 2010 at 4:46 PM UTC
England "...phantoms of the love i love"
I'm making a pub pilgrimage, A malted Mecca trip; I'm leaving all I love at home Crusading with the Picts. I'll be alone with all my thoughts, It's what must needs be done, To keep the demons off. Publicans meet me on the steps, On Sundays by the side; This trip of three thousand miles May **** should I survive. My altar's elbow worn, The finest oaken wood; I'll climb the stairs on knees, Hear bells, raise cups of cheer. There's games of chance, Some romance, With songs and several fools; It has trappings of Canterbury In pubs all called O'Tooles. There's Highland mead, And broken bread, With harps from inner rooms, I'll have dispirited spirits And revel inside tombs. My cave awaits on my return, It's dark and hard and cold; But I know the light's within my sight, If I move this granite stone. I'll bring with me a scapula To make those visions stop, The relics that I sought, Those demons of a sot.
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Sep 25, 2015
Sep 25, 2015 at 9:16 AM UTC
Pub Pilgrimage
The weekends are here, The time of  good cheer, Everyone will be headed out to the pubs to have an ice cold beer, Some will stay home, to watch the world series game, and wonder who will be the victor no one will know until the end of the game. Sunday brings with it, a day to worship God, and everyone will go to Church and listen to his word, but when the weekend is over and Monday comes again, a new work week it will bring with it for me and for you.
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Oct 21, 2011
Oct 21, 2011 at 11:56 AM UTC
Weekends
grandad he is funny just 90 years old even in the summer he always says its cold he likes to tell his stories of how he used to be how he led his life living wild and free. nights he used to have drinking in the pubs dancing with the ladies in the local clubs days with all his friends and all the fun he had pulling lots of pranks a proper jack the lad. now he as grown old not like he used to be in his mind his younger days he will always see i love him very much he means the world to me a grandad in a million that led his life so free
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Jun 5, 2014
Jun 5, 2014 at 11:51 AM UTC
grandad
Covent Garden. Midnight. Revellers and tourists combined. The market is heaving. Last trains are leaving. An eclectic mix to broaden the mind. Covent Garden. 2am. The place is pretty quiet. Pubs have closed. Clubs.... God knows. The tourists have frozen their riot. Covent Garden. 4am. A drunkard stumbles by. Flood lit shops. A rickshaw stops. The backdrop against a reddish sky. Covent Garden. 6am. Blokes lurk down Langley street. The glint of a blade. A blur in the shade. Lava tip of cigarette falls to a strangers feet. Covent Garden. 8am. Commuters emerge from underground stations. Workers prepare. Visitors beware. Pick pockets attracted like gravitation.
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Jul 10, 2015
Jul 10, 2015 at 2:30 PM UTC
Covent Garden by night.
A seventies child Born in Wales, one of the four Countries of The UK. I remember brown as the colour of the day. Fabric embossed wallpaper all the neighbours names, who married who, who was carrying on, the alcoholic, the beaten wives, Even, get this the peadophiles (or kiddy fiddlers as was known) Dai the milk, Mair the bread, the shop of infinite items. Rugby practice for dad, baking for mam (Cake and babies) gossip over the garden hedge Fish on a Friday a Sunday roast, hot sweet tea. Bubble and squeak, post delivered before you left for school. Mist on the mountain, dew on the grass. Welsh valley life, sounds idyllic but scratch the surface and a darker colour than brown emerges. Petty squablings leading to familial feuds, the Williamses don't get on with the Joneses, and as for the Pritchards, less said the better. School, local, no not for me. I was sent to a Welsh School, taught and learnt the language denied to my Parents by English politics. Cat amongst the pigeons there. Did I think I was special? Ideas above her station. That's what the neighbours say. Well, you all had the option. Dr Forbes FRCS Delivered babies buried men and women Loved by all, especially his lollipop sweets. I wasn't a child to get ***** or rip wrapping paper off of gifts, I liked to go under the stairs (like Harry Potter) and read. I left the dirt for my sister born 4 years later. Then in 1982 came my brother, tidy my mother describes it. '74,'78,'82 poor dad to have to wait I say! More pubs than chapels, more walking than driving more rain than sun, more music than ever was sung. The '80's came, and we had strikes, no electric, candles toast made with a toasting fork over the fire. No mines, no steel, no jobs. Picket lines, dole queues, women in work latchkey kids, Thatcherism, ******* times. Falklands war, IRA bombs, Royal weddings Tory rule But, the fire in the dragon never went out and Tom Jones still sings his heart out. Cymru cysglyd gwlad y gân, deffrwch nawr, dyma'ch tro.
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May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 4:27 PM UTC
70's Childhood in Wales.
A seventies child Born in Wales, one of the four Countries of The UK. I remember brown as the colour of the day. Fabric embossed wallpaper all the neighbours names, who married who, who was carrying on, the alcoholic, the beaten wives, Even, get this the peadophiles (or kiddy fiddlers as was known) Dai the milk, Mair the bread, the shop of infinite items. Rugby practice for dad, baking for mam (Cake and babies) gossip over the garden hedge Fish on a Friday a Sunday roast, hot sweet tea. Bubble and squeak, post delivered before you left for school. Mist on the mountain, dew on the grass. Welsh valley life, sounds idyllic but scratch the surface and a darker colour than brown emerges. Petty squablings leading to familial feuds, the Williamses don't get on with the Joneses, and as for the Pritchards, less said the better. School, local, no not for me. I was sent to a Welsh School, taught and learnt the language denied to my Parents by English politics. Cat amongst the pigeons there. Did I think I was special? Ideas above her station. That's what the neighbours say. Well, you all had the option. Dr Forbes FRCS Delivered babies buried men and women Loved by all, especially his lollipop sweets. I wasn't a child to get ***** or rip wrapping paper off of gifts, I liked to go under the stairs (like Harry Potter) and read. I left the dirt for my sister born 4 years later. Then in 1982 came my brother, tidy my mother describes it. '74,'78,'82 poor dad to have to wait I say! More pubs than chapels, more walking than driving more rain than sun, more music than ever was sung. The '80's came, and we had strikes, no electric, candles toast made with a toasting fork over the fire. No mines, no steel, no jobs. Picket lines, dole queues, women in work latchkey kids, Thatcherism, ******* times. Falklands war, IRA bombs, Royal weddings Tory rule But, the fire in the dragon never went out and Tom Jones still sings his heart out. Cymru cysglyd gwlad y gân, deffrwch nawr, dyma'ch tro.
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Every thanksgiving, My family gets smaller. Gone to college. Gone traveling. Gone to another woman. Gone to Florida. Gone to prison. Gone to see the lord. Funerals are how I visit the lord. God is drawn to eulogies. He’s there, a fixture, almost a cliche, like a great aunt with a black veil weeping into a floral handkerchief. Today, at this funeral, a thin layer of snow and ice has frozen the ground. Black dress shoes press ridged footprints into the snow. Every funeral I’ve ever been to has been cold. Dress clothes and peacoats aren’t thick enough to keep me warm during a funeral. I keep my hands in my pockets and hunch forward, watching my breath hit the winter wind. The winter wind is an evaporated sadness, like god. During thanksgiving, the gravy boat on the counter let off hot, thin steam. While pouring it thick on my potatoes, A shadow in the corner of the room caught my eye. The days after a funeral are filled with a confused, hopeful mysticism. Every moving shadow, every unexplained noise is a visitation. So I ****** my head towards the corner of the room. Nothing. Glancing back at the table, I look at his empty seat, reminded how much I’m him. I’m quiet, like he was. I laugh like he laughed. My teeth are as bad as his were. I drink like he did when he was my age, days, nights at a time, stumbling home from dark pubs, watching, with blurred vision, my whisky breath hit the winter wind, and evaporate, almost as fast as God. After the turkey and the pie and the coffee, I go down to the basement and I pour myself a stiff *** and coke. I drink, in silence, to the gone.
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Nov 27, 2014
Nov 27, 2014 at 6:13 PM UTC
Thanksgiving
Every thanksgiving, My family gets smaller. Gone to college. Gone traveling. Gone to another woman. Gone to Florida. Gone to prison. Gone to see the lord. Funerals are how I visit the lord. God is drawn to eulogies. He’s there, a fixture, almost a cliche, like a great aunt with a black veil weeping into a floral handkerchief. Today, at this funeral, a thin layer of snow and ice has frozen the ground. Black dress shoes press ridged footprints into the snow. Every funeral I’ve ever been to has been cold. Dress clothes and peacoats aren’t thick enough to keep me warm during a funeral. I keep my hands in my pockets and hunch forward, watching my breath hit the winter wind. The winter wind is an evaporated sadness, like god. During thanksgiving, the gravy boat on the counter let off hot, thin steam. While pouring it thick on my potatoes, A shadow in the corner of the room caught my eye. The days after a funeral are filled with a confused, hopeful mysticism. Every moving shadow, every unexplained noise is a visitation. So I ****** my head towards the corner of the room. Nothing. Glancing back at the table, I look at his empty seat, reminded how much I’m him. I’m quiet, like he was. I laugh like he laughed. My teeth are as bad as his were. I drink like he did when he was my age, days, nights at a time, stumbling home from dark pubs, watching, with blurred vision, my whisky breath hit the winter wind, and evaporate, almost as fast as God. After the turkey and the pie and the coffee, I go down to the basement and I pour myself a stiff *** and coke. I drink, in silence, to the gone.
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Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones— In fact, he’s remarkably fat. He doesn’t haunt pubs—he has eight or nine clubs, For he’s the St. James’s Street Cat! He’s the Cat we all greet as he walks down the street In his coat of fastidious black: No commonplace mousers have such well-cut trousers Or such an impreccable back. In the whole of St. James’s the smartest of names is The name of this Brummell of Cats; And we’re all of us proud to be nodded or bowed to By Bustopher Jones in white spats! His visits are occasional to the Senior Educational And it is against the rules For any one Cat to belong both to that And the Joint Superior Schools. For a similar reason, when game is in season He is found, not at Fox’s, but Blimpy’s; He is frequently seen at the gay Stage and Screen Which is famous for winkles and shrimps. In the season of venison he gives his ben’son To the Pothunter’s succulent bones; And just before noon’s not a moment too soon To drop in for a drink at the Drones. When he’s seen in a hurry there’s probably curry At the Siamese—or at the Glutton; If he looks full of gloom then he’s lunched at the Tomb On cabbage, rice pudding and mutton. So, much in this way, passes Bustopher’s day- At one club or another he’s found. It can be no surprise that under our eyes He has grown unmistakably round. He’s a twenty-five pounder, or I am a bounder, And he’s putting on weight every day: But he’s so well preserved because he’s observed All his life a routine, so he’ll say. Or, to put it in rhyme: “I shall last out my time” Is the word of this stoutest of Cats. It must and it shall be Spring in Pall Mall While Bustopher Jones wears white spats!
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Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town
Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones— In fact, he’s remarkably fat. He doesn’t haunt pubs—he has eight or nine clubs, For he’s the St. James’s Street Cat! He’s the Cat we all greet as he walks down the street In his coat of fastidious black: No commonplace mousers have such well-cut trousers Or such an impreccable back. In the whole of St. James’s the smartest of names is The name of this Brummell of Cats; And we’re all of us proud to be nodded or bowed to By Bustopher Jones in white spats! His visits are occasional to the Senior Educational And it is against the rules For any one Cat to belong both to that And the Joint Superior Schools. For a similar reason, when game is in season He is found, not at Fox’s, but Blimpy’s; He is frequently seen at the gay Stage and Screen Which is famous for winkles and shrimps. In the season of venison he gives his ben’son To the Pothunter’s succulent bones; And just before noon’s not a moment too soon To drop in for a drink at the Drones. When he’s seen in a hurry there’s probably curry At the Siamese—or at the Glutton; If he looks full of gloom then he’s lunched at the Tomb On cabbage, rice pudding and mutton. So, much in this way, passes Bustopher’s day- At one club or another he’s found. It can be no surprise that under our eyes He has grown unmistakably round. He’s a twenty-five pounder, or I am a bounder, And he’s putting on weight every day: But he’s so well preserved because he’s observed All his life a routine, so he’ll say. Or, to put it in rhyme: “I shall last out my time” Is the word of this stoutest of Cats. It must and it shall be Spring in Pall Mall While Bustopher Jones wears white spats!
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Dear Seattle, I hate you You and your tall buildings made of steel and glass Your *** ridden streets And alleyways that smell of **** and ***** You, Seattle, the melting *** of Washington State With your ****** foreign old men Who reek of beer and cigarettes Who think they’ve still got it “going on” **** you, Seattle And your passive aggressive ways **** you and your parks littered with alcoholics and heroin-addicts Forget your clubs and pubs Your romantic cowboys Enlightened hippies And your dreamy emo kids Dear Seattle, I will not miss you
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Aug 22, 2010
Aug 22, 2010 at 9:21 PM UTC
Dear Seattle
Oh I do like to be in the countryside where the branches bash against the windows of the bus where the leaves on the boughs of the trees bow so low that I feel I have to duck. Where people know me almost better than I know myself I can gesture to my figure when Brigitte says "have you eaten?" and she will reply "but that means nothing." Where I can tell Tracy all about my life and she won't judge, will look at me with the same quiet smile, the same laughing acceptance as she ever has, since the day we met. Where Cindy and Cathy sit talking about the world and tell me of their troubles because they know I'll understand. Where the sea pounds gently in the distance whipping the wind sometimes into a frenzy and molding my hair into a salt-ridden sculpture on my head. I don't miss it when I'm in the city on the contrary, I love the beat of the sun on the concrete, the thrash of the trains in the distance, even the wheezing exhaust fumes feel like they fit somehow. But it's nice to be back sometimes where the trees still grow on the roadsides where the fields are green even in winter where the pubs are cozy and quiet like their clientele. I went back there today and I loved it like always I loved it as ever I love it still.
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Jun 23, 2015
Jun 23, 2015 at 11:07 AM UTC
Countryside
Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns of hats, the sun On moustached archaic faces Grinning as if it were all An August Bank Holiday lark; And the shut shops, the bleached Established names on the sunblinds, The farthings and sovereigns, And dark-clothed children at play Called after kings and queens, The tin advertisements For cocoa and twist, and the pubs Wide open all day-- And the countryside not caring: The place names all hazed over With flowering grasses, and fields Shadowing Domesday lines Under wheat's restless silence; The differently-dressed servants With tiny rooms in huge houses, The dust behind limousines; Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages, Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.
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I'm so gangster that I have gold tears so cheers, grab that beer and **** outta here New york city clubs, pubs, and big bassy dubs Throwing my money around like I'm ******* dumb but I'm not, I'm loaded with a gross so big it's gross I have strangers waving at me, smiling at me, don't you see how awesome I be Nah please you jealous of me
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Dec 12, 2014
Dec 12, 2014 at 2:04 PM UTC
My gangster rap (don't laugh at me wahhh)
Edinburgh, oh lovely Edinburgh I visited you during a Scottish storm But, it did not deter my fascination with your beautiful rich land, which I had set out to soak up during my short welcoming stay I saw castles and monuments galleries and eateries even little pubs and alleyways that tickled my fascination I took midnight strolls into the backstreets and met lovely people who equally shared gratitude towards your wondrous land And so, I leave temporarily at least with a little something to say "Thanks for the memories, I'll be back indefinitely, with more love and awe to share than ever before!"
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Jan 17, 2019
Jan 17, 2019 at 1:31 PM UTC
Edinburgh, Lovely Edinburgh
I'm not in a rush to leave this place. I'm in no hurry, it's not a race. I'd like to take it real slow. So many stunning places to go. I want to travel far and wide. See much more of the English countryside. Beautiful beaches that surround us in Cornwall and Devon, remind us we live in our own corner of Heaven. Mystical places with tales of legends to tell. So much to do and see, I'll do my best to make it sell. Tintagel such a mystic place, where legend has it King Arthur had his chair. He had a roundtable it held many Knights, all ready to defend, always ready for a fight. In York a Viking museum to tell how they came upon our shores, with longboats, a 60 man crew, paddled with their oars. Bath has the best Roman baths to be found, laze and spoil yourself in the steam rooms built in Roman surrounds. In Wales, there's Snowdonia for you to climb, or the less active can take a train ride. A castle in Caernarfon where Princes are appointed by H M The Queen, the sword on the shoulder duly declares arise HRH Prince of Wales, the crowd are waiting for the new Prince to be seen. In Scotland there's Edinburgh with a castle tall and round sits atop a very high mound. The lowlands and the Highlands are a sight of well known beauty, driving around the lochs at night keep your eyes open for a monstrous sight, nessie fact or fiction, Of course there are the lakes of England too, Windermere the largest draws the biggest crowd. Find a cottage out of sight, snuggle up with a loved one, cuddle tight. Put on your water skis, hire a boat, sail your wind surfing board, fire up your jet ski any of these activities can be fun and available to be done, daily. The Cotswolds, for take your breath away beauty, small villages, luscious village greens, cricket playing in the field, Large Houses, Lord of the Manors, old worldly pubs, thatched pubs and rivers waiting to be seen. There are Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor and Exmoor too, Peak District, Lake District mountain ranges, many a zoo. I'm not in a rush to leave this place. I'm in no hurry, it's not a race. I'd like to take it real slow. So many stunning places to go. So much to do, so much to see. On your doorstep, no need to stray. Whatever you do, wherever you go, have a happy holiday.
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May 5, 2018
May 5, 2018 at 12:49 PM UTC
I'm in no Rush
I'm not in a rush to leave this place. I'm in no hurry, it's not a race. I'd like to take it real slow. So many stunning places to go. I want to travel far and wide. See much more of the English countryside. Beautiful beaches that surround us in Cornwall and Devon, remind us we live in our own corner of Heaven. Mystical places with tales of legends to tell. So much to do and see, I'll do my best to make it sell. Tintagel such a mystic place, where legend has it King Arthur had his chair. He had a roundtable it held many Knights, all ready to defend, always ready for a fight. In York a Viking museum to tell how they came upon our shores, with longboats, a 60 man crew, paddled with their oars. Bath has the best Roman baths to be found, laze and spoil yourself in the steam rooms built in Roman surrounds. In Wales, there's Snowdonia for you to climb, or the less active can take a train ride. A castle in Caernarfon where Princes are appointed by H M The Queen, the sword on the shoulder duly declares arise HRH Prince of Wales, the crowd are waiting for the new Prince to be seen. In Scotland there's Edinburgh with a castle tall and round sits atop a very high mound. The lowlands and the Highlands are a sight of well known beauty, driving around the lochs at night keep your eyes open for a monstrous sight, nessie fact or fiction, Of course there are the lakes of England too, Windermere the largest draws the biggest crowd. Find a cottage out of sight, snuggle up with a loved one, cuddle tight. Put on your water skis, hire a boat, sail your wind surfing board, fire up your jet ski any of these activities can be fun and available to be done, daily. The Cotswolds, for take your breath away beauty, small villages, luscious village greens, cricket playing in the field, Large Houses, Lord of the Manors, old worldly pubs, thatched pubs and rivers waiting to be seen. There are Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor and Exmoor too, Peak District, Lake District mountain ranges, many a zoo. I'm not in a rush to leave this place. I'm in no hurry, it's not a race. I'd like to take it real slow. So many stunning places to go. So much to do, so much to see. On your doorstep, no need to stray. Whatever you do, wherever you go, have a happy holiday.
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There is no moon tonight just the cold stars in the unfeeling sky yet I cling on to dreams the gypsy caravan I stood & gazed at as a child in the City museum is still there painted, gilded calling for the carefree road & in my heart long before I met you lived my fascination for your mysterious people enchanters,  fortune-tellers, some say, child & horse thieves portrayed thus in my Mother's Russia - the wild people of the endless road the people & whose fiery songs I wanted to follow- & now, in a far off world, bewitched by you, I find out that your dark eyes are that of a gypsy - Romany & it's like fate like D. H Lawrence ' The ****** & the Gypsy' so why, Northener, do you not love me like your people, I am also a wanderer a creature of the road a castaway with no home than the one my heart happened to find if you or fate somehow cast this love spell upon me if this was meant to be, you should love me, Gypsy only that would make sense take me away let us go a-wandering across the land, moors & hills beautiful boy, sweet poet do you know I once tread the winter's frost all the night's way to town for you, hoping to seal my love's fate the dark sky above me doesn't know how to lament lost love the summer of it's heart has passed, drunk long away in quiet pubs there is only this poem poorly written - my heart bleeding on my sleeve
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Oct 12, 2015
Oct 12, 2015 at 9:44 PM UTC
Gypsy