Poems

FML Twitter Haiku

For the Underdog Poets Academy Hot Haiku competition

Nanny the Crook

Oh, those geriatric thieves

First Weeks in Rhyme

Another poem for my little niece

Bewail, Bewail, Bemoan

The fate of Erin's phone...

Flopsy Baby
A nursery rhyme-game
 
Lay and Lie
A poem for grammar purists
Writing Happiness
 is never easy.

Playing Pretend
The tale of a ball with wiggly toes!
 
Reading Headache
 You know the kind I mean?


Back Home to Springtime
Because all poets must write of spring
 
Harry Potter meets Hotel California
A parody

"I had Six Cupcakes for Dinner"
For Sarah, who did.

"Colour Fling"
A silly, little poem

"Tap-Toe"
Poetry and a rhythm lesson
 
"Paradiddle Puddles and the Bridge"
A tale of a mischievous, little goat


"Mary Speaks"
The truth about the little lamb
 
"Call Me"
from The Unpublished Writings of the Wicked, Wicked Witch

"Lady Megan Met a Dragon"
A poem for someone special
 
"The Skyscraper Dance" and "December Morning"
Anti-Pastoral poems

"Very Nearly But Not"
An Adventure

 "I Went to the Mountain"
Pure Nonsense

"One Life"
Daddy's song

"Buttons"
Rhyme for a generation

"The Story Man"
Because I can't get enough of fairy tales

"In the Sunshine Land"
How old do you have to be before you can indulge in nostalgia?
 

"Gratuitous"

Musings on the English language

"Amos Obadaiah"

A hero and a cranky, old dragon

"My Friends" and "The Present"

Children's poetry

"I Feel Clever"

Parody?

"Subway Station"

Based on a true story

"At Home the Wind Lives up a Tree"

Subway nursery rhyme

"Six White Horses" and "Evergreen"

Variations on Cinderella

"A Poem each Friday, I Said"

A limerick

"Dusk and Chill"

Big-city melancholy