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.

Thursday, 21 April 2011

50+ sports club

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We play at racquet sports and bowls and swim and socialise and organise long local walks and Christmas meals and holidays. We pan last ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011

Sparrowhawk

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A sudden shower of white feathers raining down from the edge of an oak tree.
Monday, 21 February 2011

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We stared and stunned each other 'cross the room. I shouldered through the crowd to reach her. I took her hand and kissed it. Then he...
Saturday, 19 February 2011

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Though not a leper, I know the feeling of a pariah with skin that's peeling. It's because my wrinkles caused disgust when my eye ...
Tuesday, 8 February 2011

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Thursday, 27 January 2011

Round Oz at eighty

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It seemed a good idea at the time - a car drive round Australia. They said "You're too old." I said "What the hell. I...
Monday, 27 December 2010

A superfluity of incongruity

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O lucky modern poets, freed at last from manacles of metre, chains of rhyme, free to explore the natural rythms of speech (which we hear ...
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