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, 30 May 2022

A different sort of war

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This is not Ukraine, the Yemen, World War Three but nonetheless millions fighting for their lives. Not really some conventional struggle to ...

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Hung higher than any other works of art and on display in daylight every day they calmly soothe and lift the troubled heart but often are ig...
Sunday, 22 May 2022

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 Some papers try to get our attention with headlines addressing our worries about our ageing health that mention all kinds of scary medical ...
Sunday, 1 May 2022

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Heaven was a very tempting idea to raise the dead in some sort of form. Hell was invented to instill fear and make the living conform.
Monday, 18 April 2022

Un-Donne

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If ever any beauty I did see which I desired but didn't get, it's usually because she's quite a few decades too young for me.
Thursday, 14 April 2022

The times thay aren't a-changing

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"bread and cicuses" used to please the population so human nature hasn't changed except in expectation of over-priced takeaway...
Friday, 25 March 2022

The Graduate

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"Plastics, my boy ! that's the thing for the future. Get into plastics. You'll make a bomb." But he couldn't imagine t...
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