Poems by dartford (Paul S...)

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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
Yesterday 00:36am

just about now ..







I watch old black and white movies
from nineteen forty to nineteen fifty
and not because I think they're any good

it's simply that if I look at contempary film
it's just about now that I should
be into my sixth or seventh whisky ..










 #unicorns 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
Yesterday 1:55am

in which people move ..

I'm sat in the corner of the bar
studying all of the angles
but all I can see
are the old, familiar circles ..





 #loneliness 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
Yesterday 1:45am

I can make my own way there, thanks ..






there is maybe something sad
about going to the pub
to drink by oneself, she says
but why ? I don't need any
help, he says ..







 #freedom 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
18th May 2018 1:20am

ain't that the truth ..

she asks me what it is I love about
history, I say for instance the eighteenth century,
the age of reason
she says yeah that's history ..



 #honesty 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
17th May 2018 11:18pm

for myself, I acknowledge ..






self knowledge is best
kept to oneself, for
there is far too little knowledge
and far too much self ..







 #myself 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
17th May 2018 1:16am

just listen to yourself ..

everyone in the café thinks he's weird
because he often talks to himself
but if you talked to yourself
more often he might just listen to yourself ..




 #myself 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th May 2018 11:48pm

down to one's roots ..








they're cutting down trees
because the trees are undermining
the roads and the streets

would I rather have roads
without traffic or streets without trees
I'm with the trees ..









 #trees 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
14th May 2018 2:16am

do not forget ..

death doesn't get any clearer
the older you get
it just gets a little nearer ..
I'm sitting in the café
thinking how many times have I sat here
growing wearier and wearier ..




 #death   #LifeCycle 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
14th May 2018 1:41am

running free ..

he's nineteen, late for work
and as he leaves the railway station
he thinks, well bollocks to that
as he heads for the park ..





 #freedom 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
12th May 2018 2:08am

such a wealth of distractions ..

you know what it's like
looking for a particular book
which you know is somewhere
on the shelf
although no matter how diligently
you look
you always end up
reading something else ..






 #books 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
10th May 2018 00:02am

'clocked out ..'

don't get the whole 'clocking in' thing ..
you 'clock in' half an hour early
and nobody seems to notice,
but if you 'clock in' five or ten minutes late
you get docked half an hours pay.
so I stopped 'clocking in' at all, but
by then they sack me
for not turning up, although they'd
seen me every day ..





 #TruthOfLife 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
8th May 2018 1:15am

clyne gardens, swansea ..

spend the day with the scent
of wild garlic in my head,
and bluebells and buttercups
ev'rywhere I tread. I cannot
write anymore, but then
what more needs to be said ..






 #nature   #WritersBlock 
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