a bloody ballad
a red-blooded effort at an amusing and educational(ish) verse or two… 🙂 A Bloody Ballad Bright, young corpuscle flowing alongHe was humming a popular corpuscle songKnowing somehow that his job was to swimHe dreamed of adventures fate planned for him He had left the bone marrow early this mornWhen into the fast flowing stream he […]
just don’t compare
a confidence boosting poem for those who habitually compare themsleves with others and feel as if they aren’t ‘good enough’… Just Don’t Compare(A confidence boosting poem) You may not be as prettyNor as witty, nor as wiseYou hair is not as lustrousYou don’t have gorgeous eyesYour legs too thin, or else too fatCellulite upon your […]
every single f*cking cherry (originally written and published in 2025 — parental advisory: contains strong language)
CHERRY HARVEST 2025 POEM: — Excuse my French but….. (Yes the darn Iberian azure winged magpies have done it again in ’26… They just LOVE organic cherries it seems!! I just wish they’d left me a few… Please excuse the language Every Single F*cking Cherry Every f*cking cherry, yet againThose blue-winged bst*rds nickedThey simply swooped […]
dish of the day | early spring poem
The Muse has been hibernating, but a splash of spring-like weather this morning seems to have caused her to open at least one-eye… I think she must have been peckish too Dish of the Day Just as the air seems sublimely seasonedWith the staccato-singing of small birdsSo, too, the grass is pleasantly peppered withThe piquancy […]
what the dickens…
a poem I wrote some years ago — as of posting this in 2025 (probably around three decades, in fact!) in a moment of desire to try to work in various Dickensian references (more-or-less :D)… it took a little research and I still have to read several of Dicken’s opuses referred to in the rhyme… […]
the dire old duke of york
a attempt at a tongue-in-cheek poem about a particular, and seemingly/allegedly rather distasteful, example of British ‘pompousness’ and ‘circumstances’… written a few days before Mr. Mountbatten Windsor was not only de-duke but also ex-princed… NOTE: this item might include exaggeration (in respect of number of teens) and slight underestimation (in respect of number of teddy […]
on the bench
I took ‘time out’ to jot a poem that tries to make a judgement about what a poet could be hoping might be the case should a park bench in memoriam of him/her be provided for the public to use… this effort was the benchmark for poems written in October 2025… 😉 On the Bench […]
matters of concern (aka trust the science?)
Matters of conCERN (aka Trust the Science?) Did the Great Collider really openA Stargate to another dimension?Will researchers dine off stories‘Til they receive their pension?Was the unknown entity merelyHaving an inter-dimensional laughWhen it joined them at their tableThen made off with a scarf? Are ‘chemtrails’ real (as some insist?)Are air-borne nano-particles an issueIf they float-down […]
thinking happy thoughts
“Thinking happy thoughts” … Hence a reflective ‘work-in-progress’ inspired by my previous studies and current investigations into AI.. The Price of Innovation Kondratieff waved at me and said “The world will change before you go to bed. Before you sleep there will be many tears And any remnant hope there is will Come liberally spiced […]
‘reality’ (they say…)
Sitting in the shade in contemplation… this is what happens (work in progress first drafted 07/06/2025 16:30hr Lisbon time) ‘Reality’ (They Say…) They say that none of ‘it’ is realThey say that ‘it’ doesn’t existWe’re living in a simulation(Though opinion on this is mixed) They say we experience dualityCreated from ones-and-zerosAnd we should simply bow […]