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, 31 January 2021

Lockdown

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  It's an achievement just getting through another day but then this is my only  life just leaking away.
Wednesday, 27 January 2021

Flotsam

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A driftwood log far out from shore, a landgrown thing now lost at sea as helpless out of element as you make me. With others I can chat and ...
Sunday, 24 January 2021

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It's not just climate change that we're at war with; there's so much plastic in the sea' so many species threatened with ext...

Men in shorts

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A man in shorts shows summer sense, gains vitamin D in keeping cool but men in shorts still in the winter perhaps lack trousers, train as sp...
Thursday, 21 January 2021

Adolescence

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I didn't talk to you or touch you for I knew that if I did the world would crack and we be hurled into a sinking sea to watch each other...
Tuesday, 12 January 2021

Swim Stroke

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Who chose such a silly name? Fluttering used to label strength; frailty mis-applied to power plunging headlong down the length. Surely natur...
Monday, 11 January 2021

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A robin flew into my shed yesterday; it seemed to have little fear. I bet it's the one built a nest last year in a cupboard along the pa...
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