do you black out

john girljohn girl Posts: 308
edited March 2005 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Blacked Out

Do you black out
the fireworks that lie behind
bluely hooded eyes
knowing our four
deeply through the door
do you blackout
the savages
and sqare teared spies
under the covers
I had violent thoughts
and that is beneath me
do you black out
the lands
of violet culture...


to be continued
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  • john girljohn girl Posts: 308
    that its hard to write, REVISION, yeah,

    any way going to work this "Blacked out" poem on this thread,

    I am reminding this to myself

    Hey share your Blackout inspired poems in this thread...

    Sobriety fucks with my creativity, and... But I feel better.
  • I dreamt a dream the other night I couldn't sleep a wink,
    the rats were trying to count the sheep and I was off the drink,
    there were footsteps in the parlour and voices on the stairs
    I was climbing up the wall and moving round the chairs
    I looked out from under the blanket and up at the fireplace
    The Pope and J.F. Kennedy were staring in me face,
    Suddenly it dawned on me I was gettin' the old DT's
    when the Child o' Prague began to dance
    around the mantelpiece.

    (Chorus)
    Goodbye to the Port and Brandy,
    to the Vodka and the Stag,
    to the Schmiddick and the Harpic,
    the bottle draught and keg.
    As I sat lookin' up at the Guinness ad
    I could never figure out
    how your man stayed up on the surfboard
    after 14 pints of stout.

    Well I swore upon the bible
    I'd never touch a drop
    My heart was palpitatin'
    I was sure 'twas going to stop,
    thinkin' I was dyin'
    I gave my soul to God to keep
    A tenner to St. Anthony
    to help me get to sleep.
    I fell into an awful nightmare
    and got a dreadful shock
    When I dreamt there was no duty free
    at the airport down in Knock,
    Ian Paisley was sayin' the rosary
    and Nora Bennis was on the pill,
    Finbar Wright was gargled
    and singin' Spancil Hill.

    I dreamt that Mr Haughey
    had recaptured Crossmaglen
    then Garret got reelected
    and gave it back again.
    Dick Spring and Roger Casement
    were on board the Marita Ann
    as she sailed into Fenit
    they were singin' Banna Strand,
    I dreamt Archbishop McNamara
    was on Spike Island for 3 nights
    havin' been arrested
    for supportin' travellers rights,
    I dreamt that Ruari Quinn was smokin'
    marijuana in the Dail
    and Barry Desmond handin' Frenchies out
    to the scuts in Fianna Fail.

    I dreamt of Nell McCafferty and Mary Kenny too
    the things that we got up to, but I'm not tellin' you,
    I dreamt I was in a jacussi along with Alice Glenn
    'twas them I knew I'd never ever ever drink again.

    (Chorus)
  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    .,....^ that's funneeeee.....hehehehehe.....all ye Irish near and far.....get ye to yer closest bar.......hehehehe......I miss Ireland......sob.....sigh.....
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • john girljohn girl Posts: 308
    I'm pulling this out of thin air


    In the Daytime

    Do you black out
    the fireworks that lie behind
    bluely hooded eyes
    knowing our four defiant
    deeply through the door
    do you black out
    the savages and square teared spies
    under the covers
    I had violent thoughts
    that is beneath me
    a country's crumbling floor
    blacked out
    a lands in violet culture
    the nightmares repeated
    to the fall away
    mine, tormented
    a metaphor this way
    Do you black out
    the salvages
    we are working
    this pen knife stranger
    held to my throat
    Do you black out
    in the daytime, in traffic...

    Michelle
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