My Poetry

Verse and worse by me

To Look at Simple Things

                                    "I like…

2 years ago

An Odd Couple

Two poets in a muddle. Or rather two poems. John Ashbery's A Mood of Quiet Beauty (from April Galleons 1987) meets…

2 years ago

Eye-Rhyme Blues

eye rhyme /ˈī ˌrīm/ noun An eye rhyme, also called a visual rhyme or a sight rhyme, is a rhyme…

2 years ago

Crime Past, Crime Present, and Crime Future

 Many people know that the poet T. S. Eliot was very fond of cats and indeed created some wonderful cat…

3 years ago

The Seduction of Sir Knack-a-Rib

OuLiPo meets Anapestic Tetrameter and the mad, bad and dangerous to know Bored Lyeron The Seduction of Sir Knack-a-Rib  The…

3 years ago

All Our Yesterdays with the #1936Club

There was a period in the early 1960s when my parents had a television (in those days you rented) and…

3 years ago

A Shadorma Chain on the Problem of Cats

 Shadorma - that wonderful bogus poetic form that is such fun to write - is perfect for the paean to…

3 years ago

Pop Some Seeds and Get Cooking!

Long before everyone aspired to be a gourmet chef and cooking programs were all the rage, it wasn't so easy…

3 years ago

Snow Day Distraction

Unpaired Words Prefix or Suffix reversed or left off. They have no in-, no un-, no dis-, and no -less.…

3 years ago

The Shadorma – Definition and Origin with Examples.

What is this Poetic form called Shadorma? Invention So some say. Spanish it is Alleged. Not so fast. Shadorma? Dictionary…

3 years ago