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Help me find a poem

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  • 10-06-2016 1:18am
    #1
    tea and coffee
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    It was part of the Dart Poetry in Motion series in the 1990s and was a short poem, one stanza, about a wife (or mother ) who had died and possibly a jug. May have been Paul Durcan, or another Paul. ...have been googling over an hour and nothing. Anyone?


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    spurious
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    Could you email the Press Officer for the DART and ask them to root in their archives?


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    stoplooklisten
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    me old mother was a mug,
    when she died i put her in a jug,
    if my wife doesn't stop the nagging,
    i'll put her in a flaggin'


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    tea and coffee
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    stoplooklisten wrote: »
    me old mother was a mug,
    when she died i put her in a jug,
    if my wife doesn't stop the nagging,
    i'll put her in a flaggin'

    is that you Paul?


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    Cathy.C
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    It's not easy being a wife,
    To men we're just trouble and strife,
    Squeeze our jugs and then take us to bed,
    You'll all be pulling your plums one day when we're dead.


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    RayM
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    The doctor called and said "sure lookit
    I'm afraid your wife has kicked the bucket"
    I miss her eyes, her smile and her hugs
    But most of all, I miss her jugs


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    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
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    Roses are red
    Violets are blue
    Your wife is dead


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    My name is URL
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    tea and coffee wrote: »
    one stanza

    One Costanza?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auNAvO4NQnY


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    tea and coffee
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    gidimit. should have known better than to ask in AH. All these creative types floating about.


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    AnonoBoy
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    Was it Paul Muldoon maybe?


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    gramar
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    In AH I was alurkin'
    When someone mentioned the name Paul Durcan
    Or another Paul too it could be
    Pope John Paul or Paul McCartney


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    tea and coffee
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    Thought of it again today and found it. It wasn't Paul Durcan, it was Tom Paulin
    Pot Burial by Tom Paulin.
    He has married again. His wife buys ornaments and places them on the the dark sideboard. Year by year her vases and small jugs crowd out the smiles of the wife who died.

    The poem meant a lot to me at the time it was on the Dart.


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