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John
Robinson
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of
February 2004 Online
Competition
I live in deepest Northumberland where I've spent most of my life as it's the best place on earth! I'm divorced and live with my two children who are still at school and are the best things in my life. My ambition is to live on Holy Island and to write meaningless literature for the rest of my life!
I've been writing poetry for years, but up to now most of it has been silly limericks and
ditties influenced by the writings and drinking exploits of people like Brendan Behan and Shane McGowan. My most recent efforts were a direct result of the break up of a relationship, which is probably quite obvious, and over the years has probably been the inspiration for many decent poems, by many decent people. You have to be going through the pain to write about it! Out of adversity comes deliverance! I'm looking forward to the day I start writing the silly ones again!
A Rose For You
A rose I never gave you
A word that went unsaid
Regrets I'll hold forever
Till the moment I am dead
I loved you as I never have
Or ever will again
The things we took for granted
Have left us with such pain
A heart that's torn to pieces
A dream that's unfulfilled
Memories are all that's left
And lives we must rebuild
I'll always love the best of you
And soon forget the worst
I won't regret a moment
Alas, our love was cursed
Dying Embers
I never did stop loving you
I fear I never will
The heartache of our parting
Lingers with me still
The burning flame that was our love
Reduced to dying embers
Will stay with me forever
When no-one else remembers
The things that turned our love to hate
Will pass, and time will mend
And sometime, when the pain is gone
I'd wish to call you friend
You were my love, my inspiration
My heartache and my joy
And now I have been cast aside
Like a battered, broken toy
The vision of your pretty face
Will be with me always
I never will forget you
Till the ending of my days
No Regrets?
There is no time to have regrets
No reason to be sad
We loved and then we parted
But what a time we had!
The love, the laughs, the drinking
Oh what the hell went wrong!
I miss those days and I miss you
God, I've just heard 'our song'
Move on and sort your life out
I hear time and again
It doesn't work, believe me
It doesn't heal the pain
It's only time that mends the wounds
And you find love elsewhere
It's time that takes it all away
Why does no-one care?
Some days a little easier
You grieve a little less
Then Bang! It's back to haunt you
You don't deserve this mess
But one day you will wake up
Your heart will be at peace
Your thoughts are of another
Merciful release!
The Beneficial Qualities Of Beer
Beer is lovely
Beer is great
I like to have
A pint or eight
JD and coke
Is also nice
Especially with
A lot of ice
I don't like whisky
Makes me sick
Tastes bloody awful
Has a nasty kick
Guinness is alright
Makes you drowsy
And in the morning
You feel lousy
The crack is good
When drinking beer
And when you're drunk
You have no fear
Life without beer
Would be a bore
The barman is waiting
Go get some more!
The Acid Test
Poor Alice and her rabbit
And good old Mary Jane
Puff the Magic Dragon?
Casey Jones's train
It's all to do with stimulants
It's all to do with pain
The Grateful Dead, The Who, The Move
Flowers in the rain
Ken Kesey saw it coming
He saw it coming fast
A turn of life's priorities
Surely built to last
San Francisco, 67
A year we won't forget
A year that changed humanity
They haven't fathomed yet
The acid and the Mary Jane
Turned our world around
The repercussions still to see
The culprits never found
I'm pleased to say I've had a joint
A cube of LSD
The world would be much poorer
Without the likes of me
I've seen the Dead, I've seen the Cream
And Jimi Hendrix too
I've drank with Rory Gallagher
If you disapprove, screw you!
A Pint With Shane MacGowan
I'd like to have a pint someday
Just Shane MacGowan and me
He's rich so I would let him pay
We'd have a pint or three
We'd crawl round all of Dublin's pubs
Till we could drink no more
We'd have a large cheeseburger
Then go and drink some more
And maybe he would sing a song
Sally McLennane?
He'd have our feet a tapping
As only that man can
And when the night was over
We'd find a place to sleep
Anywhere would do us fine
As long as it was cheap
I'd tell my friends about that night
Time and time again
A pint with Shane MacGowan
It would be quite insane!
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