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John Trainor

John Trainor

Drunken Poetry

It seemed like a good idea at the time

I’ll write some drunken poetry,
It may not even rhyme.
It doesn’t rhyme.
It’s not even poetry.
You soft lad!
Go to Bed!
You’re going to feel like shit in the morning!

Altre opere di John Trainor...
These Days

How easily he cries, these days, With thoughts of you. He lies. These days,
Living with an evil man

You know you do the things you do, And think I do not know. But what I see and feel inside, I will not ever show. So, carry on and cheat,
 1
Stardust

He’d been there, done that, seen the movie, read the book. A life well lived and well informed, that knowing look. He said, “there’ll come a time when I’m not here to watch you wend you...
 1
The Festival Poet

Today I invested some time. In, The space between the spaces. Pushing through gaps thinner than… A particle here,
My Aslan

How can I describe you in a song? Portray the beauty I see before m… Sing of your lions mane, your spar… And of the way you move me. Will you love me in the morning?
 3
Dad

Before I could even speak or know… He told me what I should believe. He told me what I should achieve. He told me how proud he was of me. He told me when I was a disappoin…
Ten Commandments for a gay man.

Honour yourself with all your hear… LGBT may be your homies but neve… If people are offended by who you… There is nothing straight acting a… There is nothing masculine or femi…
Why write?

Do I write my poems and prose and… Cowardly! Do I publish them and say, "this… How indulgent! Do I say nothing?
Plea to parent

I don’t want to hear that. What it was you said. No son of mine could be like that. I’d rather you were dead! Things we shouldn’t talk about.
 1
The Hangover

I'd feel much better If I'd refused to drink TWO Large brandies too large!
Christmas 2020– Lockdown!

For Christmas this year, I shall paint my fat face! I can do that you know. A clown, A queen,
Eternal Life.

I do not believe the soul goes on… Ordinary, small, events of chaotic… A butterfly here, a feather there,… Insignificant. That I think this way, does not m…
Memories of Mary

High platform shoes, Seventies mullets, Tight perm hairdos, Fadgies like bullets. Fadgies that harden,
 1
A night in Edinburgh

You’d best not drink with Beth an… I’m pretty sure they’d make you si… Whilst at The Street or C.C. Bl… You’ll lose the key to your hotel… Wake up with Pringles in your bed…
Eight Lettered Scrabble

Don’t go yet! We have barely found the consonant… I love you You love me Four plus four!



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