Submissions by dartford (Paul S...)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th Feb 2025 1:51am
16th Feb 2025 1:51am
when I’m nearly asleep
I hear the trains
rattling through the night
is never quiet
young men screaming and shouting and
fighting
on the street
I prefer to listen to
the trains
in the night
rattling through the night
is never quiet
young men screaming and shouting and
fighting
on the street
I prefer to listen to
the trains
in the night
#violence
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th Feb 2025 1:22am
16th Feb 2025 1:22am
a bit longer poem
a chap in work
whom I didn’t get on with
but rather admired
recently died
after he’d retired and I wished
he’d have lived
whom I didn’t get on with
but rather admired
recently died
after he’d retired and I wished
he’d have lived
#admiration
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
15th Feb 2025 4:38pm
15th Feb 2025 4:38pm
just playing the fool
you’re covered in mud
it’s camouflage
l don’t want to be recognised
why not?
because I'm covered in mud,
you clot!
it’s camouflage
l don’t want to be recognised
why not?
because I'm covered in mud,
you clot!
#dragons
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
15th Feb 2025 1:29am
15th Feb 2025 1:29am
sorry your phone’s broke
older I get
hungry and go
to the café
but it’s not a café
anymore
it’s a bloody mobile phone
repair shop
I wonder
what went
wrong
hungry and go
to the café
but it’s not a café
anymore
it’s a bloody mobile phone
repair shop
I wonder
what went
wrong
#aging
#food
#nostalgia #technology
#nostalgia #technology
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
14th Feb 2025 11:57pm
14th Feb 2025 11:57pm
tables too close together
restaurant has an
overwhelming odour of other
peoples’ left overs
like sitting in a kitchen sink
full of unwashed plates
I feel sick
overwhelming odour of other
peoples’ left overs
like sitting in a kitchen sink
full of unwashed plates
I feel sick
#food
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
14th Feb 2025 00:08am
14th Feb 2025 00:08am
childhood
read for hours, nothing that was on the
school curriculum, mind, I was a
pretty odd kid who wouldn’t go to school but
to the public library instead
school curriculum, mind, I was a
pretty odd kid who wouldn’t go to school but
to the public library instead
#reading
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
13th Feb 2025 11:31pm
13th Feb 2025 11:31pm
don’t get him started, because
bees are doubtless imperative for the
planet so long as they don’t sting me, damn it,
the old bloke in the pub says,
however, that he really doesn’t like wasps
planet so long as they don’t sting me, damn it,
the old bloke in the pub says,
however, that he really doesn’t like wasps
#bees
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
13th Feb 2025 00:59am
13th Feb 2025 00:59am
we are all just caught in a frame
you know that moment on the bus when you’re
aware that you’re talking to yourself
and embarrassed you look out of the window
and the world carries on just the same ..
aware that you’re talking to yourself
and embarrassed you look out of the window
and the world carries on just the same ..
#FeelingTrapped
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
13th Feb 2025 00:17am
13th Feb 2025 00:17am
the ubiquitous bully
nobody loved him like I did
n’t either it was him or the rest of us
just getting him wrong
but no it was him ..
n’t either it was him or the rest of us
just getting him wrong
but no it was him ..
#bullying
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
11th Feb 2025 11:54pm
11th Feb 2025 11:54pm
crawling home from the pub
uphill isn’t too bad
the effort stops one thinking
but downhill
added to a fear of falling
and the fact that one has
been drinking
it would have been preferable to catch the bus
instead of walking
the effort stops one thinking
but downhill
added to a fear of falling
and the fact that one has
been drinking
it would have been preferable to catch the bus
instead of walking
#anxiety
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
11th Feb 2025 00:57am
11th Feb 2025 00:57am
tomorrow
I’m tired
of what?
I don’t know
I’m too tired to analyse it
maybe (may be)
tomorrow
of what?
I don’t know
I’m too tired to analyse it
maybe (may be)
tomorrow
#aging
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
11th Feb 2025 00:32am
11th Feb 2025 00:32am
don’t forget it
earthworms do more
good for the planet than the rest of us
put together, damn it, says
the old bloke in the pub
good for the planet than the rest of us
put together, damn it, says
the old bloke in the pub
#nature
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