Truck Stop: Scribbles.

Poems and other scribbles...

To protect me from having to overly worry about what I put on this page I must insist that readers be over the age of 18. If you are not then please go and look at something else; if you are then don't take this warning as an indication that you will find anything "dodgy" on here; I just want to cover myself.

I originally only put this poetry page here because every web page that I was parodying had pictures of the owner's cats (or worse, a page that was meant to be have been written for, or by the cat) and a few crappy poems put there by the author who was usually far too young to be writing poetry anyway. I chose these few, I have lost most of the others I wrote so this is all there is really.

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My own poems.

Kings of the Road, Nights in Traction.
Train Poem.
Cats.
Payback Time.
Cattle Train.
Slugs.
Punctuation.
Sheepdog Poem, for Andy.
For amusement, a double translation of Cats.

Other people's poems.

Since most of my poems are pretty miserable, how about this one by Jessica Koepell (link on my friends page) called "Tube"
To counter my cats poem, and to keep cat lovers happy, one of the oldest poems about Cats ever written, Pangur Bán
I have always loved this poem by Adrian Mitchell called Dumb Insolence.
And just one more by someone else, this is one of my favourite poems ever, and I wish I had written it...
I wanna be the leader.
Rudyard Kipling - If.
I love this poem by Sophie Hannah... If People Disapprove Of You.
On a similar note to the one above, how about: Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple.
Hopefully this external link will carry on working because it includes a reading by Stevie Smith of "Not Waving but Drowning."
Although not a poem, for some reason I felt the urge to include Kev's Courting Song.

Michael Lawrie's 'Lorry' homepage. Email: lorry@lorry.org