Proper Poetry

Which is poems of modern ideas in traditional poetry forms, rhyming poems and rhythmic poems plus some less proper items, jokes, epigrams, etc.

Monday, 11 August 2025

'Nobody but a blockhead ever wrote except for money' Samuel Johnson OK...

Friday, 8 August 2025

Welcome

I hope you enjoy reading from this collection as much as I enjoyed writing it. (more poems in my S. America overland adventure - 'SAO...

Saturday, 19 July 2025

What makes a piece of writing a poem?

If there isn't any rhyme or at least repeating rhythm, it's just pretentious shredded prose and not a proper poem.

Strawbery patch

I'm pleasantly surprised to note a rather unusual absence of slugs while searching for any hidden fruit (ignoring the possible presence ...

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Apples

Now the crows are attacking my apples spearing them with their wicked beaks but there's such a glut it doesn't matter losing their s...

Is this what it's all about ?

A happy family life. Then lonely grieving. Existence without wife. And the long leaving.

Friday, 30 May 2025

Tweets 23

SCAMMED It's not just the money. I can pay it. But I don't like being taken for a ride. It bruises my self-confidence and wounds my...

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