All Poems

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

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?  

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 27 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 2 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  

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 2 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 1 Comment  

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  

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?  

How can we set ourselves free? Sonnet  

A ghetto can be created by third-generation immigrants who have no cultural identity 4 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 6 Comments  

Mostly brilliant. But not always.  

A silly poem about love 6 Comments  

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?  

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 3 Comments  

Hurricane Katrina revealed something - but what?  

The destruction of Fallujah  

Being a parent  

A young man wreaking destruction in his community  

Machines that don't want to work  

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  

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  

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  

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 8 Comments  

A selection of short and cynical poems  

A selection of short inspirational poems  

A selection of short sad poems  

Like it says on the tin  

Short thoughtful and inspirational poems  

Poem about where I used to live  

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  

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 11 Comments  

A curse that travelled round the world 20 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 13 Comments  

A silly poem about hunting 1 Comment  

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 1 Comment  

The Shadow - a shadow turns malign and haunting 15 Comments  

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

Short frightening poem about stairs late at night 1 Comment  

Scary poem about imagination creating a nightmare world 1 Comment  

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  

Poem about a toddler reaching for independence  

Tyrannosaurus REX! Was this fiercest of dinosaurs REALLY so bad? 4 Comments  

The destruction of Nature and of ourselves 1 Comment  

Love and loss - remembering a loved one 1 Comment  

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