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.

Sunday, 24 March 2013

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That evening at the local lady's house, after the meal when the dancing began, you seemed to float above the dusty ground lifted by r...
Saturday, 16 March 2013

Advice to our young men

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Go fight our enemies, all my sons. Your victories will glorify you. And if you die, it is but once and paradise virgins satisfy you. Go seek...
Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Too mean (but also too loud)

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I shuffled into a gap among the crowd as the band was tuning up after the break. A guy approached speaking as he came near but the music ...
Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Tantalising

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That Tantalus had an easy time with merely grapes beyond his reach and grabbing them not a possible crime. But how would he handle a ripe...

42 ?

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Ignoring sex and politics, religion, education, art, literature and economics, music, nature, science, sport; disdaining class and soci...
Thursday, 21 February 2013

Kyrgyrstan

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The summer plains bake in desert heat while distant mountains tempt with white ice cream. The solemn peaks pour sparkling water over tumbl...
Friday, 28 December 2012

Indecision

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Do I really need to move my car or shall I take a chance and risk it? Portslade might be a bit too far and I might end up with a ticket. I...
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