Cars crawling, grinding gears Honking, spitting, spilling beer Insectile crowd with tailored cut Irish flushed winning nut Damson-jowled drunkard with evil sneer Puking, blustering, scaring leer Pushy Posh in plush pink hat Shoving, pinching, demanding ‘I want that!’ Rude Rupert with bacon sarni It’s enough to send one quite barmy
I really wanted to do a Little Book this year but was too tied up with things to do an Easter/Spring one and I didn’t want to do another lot of Halloween poems when I haven’t got round to making the first one properly! So instead I have gone for poems about Fireworks Night or […]
Science is vital the scientist said The politicians just shook their heads And smiled oh so very primly they knew what’s best they said rather grimly Science is vital the teacher cried! The politicians shrugged and simply lied The way they had done before Is telling the truth such a chore? Science is vital the […]
http://www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk/ National Poetry Day is here once more and this time the theme is Home – here is the poem I constructed from this concept: My home is not this building With it’s antiquated beams And spiders in the loft It is not the garden strewn With fruit and edibles Nor is it the burbling […]
In the beginning I was a new pack of plasticine All rainbow colours in neat rows But People took pieces of me And began molding me as they thought I should be My Parents Teachers, doctors Neighbours, the Church, friends, Bullies and boyfriends Each made an effigy That was not me Just a distorted fraction […]
I was planning to produce the Little Book of Spoogy Poetry properlly this year but unfortunatly my little girl poured water all over it 🙁 Fortunatly I had copies of the actual poems but I lost the drawings as I hadn’t thought to scan them before I put the book together for Jeany. However – […]
Selfish human consumption Depleting natural resources Carrying extinction Disguised as advancement
I have decided that it is time to put together a poetry collection – it will contain 50 poems from this blog. It will be the first 50 minus the poems that I consider just for children so mainly the Little Books of Poetry. It will be avalable as an e-book, a printed leaflet and […]
Alaric the name unfolds Warrior King of legends mold Uber Geek in strange Nu Spk Two in one Wearing black for fun Alaric my Wonder Geek Fighting zombies in his sleep Forking daemons Spawned zombie child He’ll fix the system for a while And when it breaks He’ll battle all night Until his code spins […]