Bad timing (1938)
Bad timing (1938) Poem retelling a family story about my father and his father. Dad ran away from home to enlist in the army just in time for World War Two.
Articulations
Articulations: Examples of my creative writing: aphorisms, poems, short stories, humour (“humour”), (auto)biography, translations and more. Read Articulating myself for more details or scroll down.
Dad – remembering my father
Dad – remembering my father as I do every year in June around about the time of his birthday. His influence still hangs over me.
Neanderthal … or otherwise?
The killing of Osama bin Ladin by US special forces in Pakistan was NOT the action of Neanderthals!
He Wishes for a Sinecure
Poem playing with the word sinecure meaning: A position that requires no work but still gives an ample payment.
Not Quite Procol
A re-write of the lyrics of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” using words from the Artwiculate word game.
The Morning After
Short lexicographical and etymological poem exploring various forms of a word sometimes used to describe how one feels after a night of drinking.
Robert d’Boy
Beware of Robert the Boy! Piece of comic nonsense verse composed around the word hobbledehoy.
Zelda the Zealot
Comic poem in rhyming couplets illustrated by photographs of a cat climbing a tree, playing in snow or curled asleep.