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John Trainor

Poetry

I threw all my poems into the bin
When I was young,
I’d studied the way of the human psyche
By Freud and Jung.
I felt they would make me feel
The things they were written to heal
So the poems are gone!
 
The feelings live on!

(2013)

#Irony

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Manic Depression

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Who You Talking to?

I thought my heart was broken But now my heart is fixed I wished I had a cocktail And now the cocktail’s mixed. I’ve finally reached the age,
Hunting for fire dragons in the park

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Deidres Lament

Watch you go, Cold as snow, Salt and blood. Graved in stone, Old friends gone,
Memories of Mary

High platform shoes, Seventies mullets, Tight perm hairdos, Fadgies like bullets. Fadgies that harden,
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At The End

At the end it may seem everything… It’s not! It’s just, you’re done! Shut the fuck up angsting your fin… It’s not,
The knowing

I’ll never be quite sure how you g… Still you are here. Inside. Moving me. I packed my trunk with memories of…
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Love is?

Nobody loves you. They say that they love you. Love you. Love you. But you can’t hear!
Ode to an old man

Christs day is here, You’re sitting alone. No presents or cards, The loved ones all gone, It’s the most wonderful time of th…
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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?
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Losing

I can’t save you from your pain, I can’t save you from your pain. If I could, I would. But I can’t save you from your pa…
Who do you love?

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The wronged wife.

Did you see? In her eyes, That sparkle? I think she knew you once, Or twice!
Life Without Faith

If I had wit and words to write my love for you. I would not construct a poem whose rhyme and rhythm would pulse the beat of steady heart. For I do not possess the skill and wordsmith...
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Nonsense

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