All Poems

A poem about the intense and often stormy relationship between a parent and a seven year old child  

Cuddling a toddler when feeling old  

A funny poem about living in the age of dinosaurs 2 Comments  

The reality of being conditioned to conform, and how to escape conformity 2 Comments  

Could poverty and alienation on a grand scale have been at the roots of 9/11? 1 Comment  

Exploitation of superstore / supermall workers  

Some people need an excuse to justify their adventures, especially when they get to a certain age  

A funny poem for children about an Alien landing in the playground 30 Comments  

Being a shit to someone, and hurting yourself 2 Comments  

The characters met on the journey through life - an extremely long poem, and lots of characters  

A cynical view of why people cry at funerals - often for themselves or for deep psychological reasons  

A baby hedgehog in an autumn evening 3 Comments  

A bat, distant and hunting in the suburban dusk  

A sonnet about beautiful, cold women 2 Comments  

A boastful girl who can do everything 2 Comments  

Picking blackberries as a young child  

Short poem about a blackbird 4 Comments  

Do you ever feel trapped by the reality we've created for ourselves? 3 Comments  

Remembering the powerful love felt for a newborn child  

You'll find moderate, decent people in all religions 1 Comment  

Death leading the soul on its final journey 10 Comments  

Dawn snooze with the girlfriend  

Death squads undermine democracy slowly and corrosively  

Western democracy is part of a web of liberalism and social rights that is maintained at the expense of other nations' well-being 3 Comments  

Don't read this poem if you're a dog lover 6 Comments  

A very short silly children's poem about a dragon taking a flying test 2 Comments  

Mystical poem, dreaming about becoming a part of life  

Gathering chestnuts when I was a child  

The joy of getting the kids ready for school  

A realisation that one day the child will have to leave home  

The skills required to bring up children  

I like cats, though I used to like them a lot more.  

Poem about a savage pit bull  

Fire: it looks so safe, but has the potential to become a raging monster  

Off-beat poem wishing for the magic of childhood  

How words can be used to manipulate people's perceptions  

God is on our side! Yeah, right. That's just what an all-loving, omnipotent God would be like, huh?  

Poem about being ignorant  

Gun culture USA  

An odd little poem about the concept of height  

Inspirational poem - what will you have learnt about life by the time you die? Will you have loved life? 1 Comment  

How can we set ourselves free? Sonnet  

A ghetto can be created by third-generation immigrants who have no cultural identity 6 Comments  

Sonnet about self  

Walking past people you recognise but don't really know in suburbia 3 Comments  

Poem about protecting young children from bad influences  

Short inspirational poem about using our imagination 1 Comment  

Overcoming adversity 1 Comment  

All that time, and nothing to show for it a few hours later 2 Comments  

Sonnet about realising how stupid I am 1 Comment  

A jokey poem saying how wonderful men are 8 Comments  

Mostly brilliant. But not always. 5 Comments  

A silly poem about love 9 Comments  

Stepping in dog dirt isn't such a nice experience  

A bored child believing the parent can do anything  

Short poem about a minor miracle I observed  

Crazy goals - they have to be first at SOMETHING  

Short poem about racism 1 Comment  

Poem about the power of imagination 1 Comment  

What's it like to fall in love? 1 Comment  

Talking up the rightness of war in the media in order to fool a dumb population 1 Comment  

Sonnet about ageing, and s*x  

A stifling college course  

Silly poem about being a bored monster 5 Comments  

Every country has its empire for a short while  

God? as a market trader selling forgiveness, hope etc.  

Hurricane Katrina revealed something - but what?  

Deeply amoral Western politicians  

The destruction of Fallujah  

Being a parent  

A young man wreaking destruction in his community  

Visitors from outer space? What would they be doing as they buzz our planet?  

Silly poem about a cat being kicked out of the house at Christmas  

The old-style Tory woman  

Political skullduggery  

Imagining being the pet of a cat  

After 9/11 parts of the media picked on Muslims, which wasn't too impressive  

Countless numbers of ways of looking at the world  

The funeral of my Nan  

The insane world of non-stop 24 hour news  

Despair causes nihilism  

How we are today determines how we are tomorrow  

Facing death with bravery  

The Queen Mother's funeral 1 Comment  

Talking old times over with an ex-partner  

A nonsense fantasy poem about a creature that whiles away its days on a rock in the middle of the sea 1 Comment  

Lying under a tree and reflecting on past hurts in life  

Poem about mass murderers bumping off peace activists  

A polar bear in a poem going insane 1 Comment  

Young men in the Religious Police, frisking women  

Watching a play about prisoners: easy to see ourselves about prisoners  

Rain pelting down  

A bitter old woman, a relic from the Victorian era  

The dreaded circular with news from the 'successful'  

An exercise in word-play  

Watching a child play on the beach  

Heaven is stasis  

Spiritual questing  

Short Children's Poems 12 Comments  

A selection of short and cynical poems  

A selection of short inspirational poems  

Odds and sods  

A selection of short sad poems  

Short thoughtful and inspirational poems 1 Comment  

Poem about where I used to live  

The beauty and magic of even the humblest of creatures  

Snow and childhood, a poem about magical moments  

Sonnet about being ourselves, going through life at our own speed  

Short poem about a spider hunting its prey  

Funny poem about sport crowding everything else off the telly  

What is success?  

Why do people turn into suicide bombers? 1 Comment  

Short cynical poem about banks  

Poem about the pleasure and pain of reading a book 12 Comments  

A curse that travelled round the world 23 Comments  

A fun way to teach children about rhythm - involves clapping and chanting 2 Comments  

Some guy claiming to be a T'ai Chi master in the mid '80s  

Feeling frightened, looking out across dark fields 15 Comments  

A silly poem about hunting 2 Comments  

Difference between men and women  

Silly poem about a hedgehog getting squashed  

Which one is the 'goody'? 1 Comment  

Retired Generals making the trip round the T.V. studios  

Motorists in France chopping down Plane trees because they keep crashing into them  

A poem about war, destruction and self-delusion, and how a nation can blame everyone but themselves 2 Comments  

The Shadow - a shadow turns malign and haunting 16 Comments  

A sinister smile that travelled the world, wreaking destruction 1 Comment  

A bunch of aliens arrive to change the planet. But things go wrong ...  

Short frightening poem about stairs late at night 3 Comments  

Feeling stressed and wanting to keep the world at arm's length  

A barbaric bomb  

Scary poem about imagination creating a nightmare world 3 Comments  

Imagining a final nuclear war  

America's worst-ever President  

Cynical poem about an ex-girlfriend trapped in conformity  

Science doesn't accept the possibility of a God or a spirit, just because (as yet) it can't measure it 1 Comment  

Different levels of hospitality towards immigrants  

Sonnet about liars  

The two sides of a woman's character  

Poem about a toddler reaching for independence  

Tyrannosaurus REX! Was this fiercest of dinosaurs REALLY so bad? 5 Comments  

The destruction of Nature and of ourselves 1 Comment  

A prison camp for non-whites in Australia  

Silly poem about a man sulking  

A poem about changing oneself, when something inside tells you that you have to change  

The effect a poem can have on other people  

Witches cats fighting each other in the sky  

An upset toddler ...