SABBATH SPECIAL : SENRYU
A spiritual senryu inspired by summer wildfires, a prayer of gratitude…
SCRABBLE : (NONSENSE) TEMPOEM
I wish to dedicate this whimsical tempoem to Bill Temple who created and introduced me to this form which I have fun writing.…
IN MEMORY OF DIANA
A tribute to Princess Diana on the twentieth anniversary of her death.…
VIVE LA VIE : SENRYU (chain)
A senryu chain about the precious gift of life and how it should be valued…
REVOLUTION : TEMPOEM
A simple tempoem revealing the causes for a revolution.…
REFLECTIONS OF A POUTING PRINCE : QUATRAIN (Chain)
A little royal satire about a future heir to the British throne…
THE ANIMAL PARTY
This is the fifth in this series of humorous, animal narrative poems in which the owl accompanies his friend, the elephant, on different outings and the two invariably end up in some precarious situations. The earlier poems are THE ANIMAL FAIR, THE ANIMAL DENTIST, THE ANIMAL SCHOOL and THE PEOPLE ZOO. Although the intended audience was pre-teens younger children and adults have found them very amusing.…
LIMERICK TRICK
The inspiration for this playful limerick came from the fun I had with the rhyme work in my limerick, A POET NAMED ANDREW, published recently when Andrew Green, the author of Margaret's Story, was learning to write his first tempoem. This limerick contains a simple, quite obvious message for those of you who might be learning to write limericks.…
SPECIALITIES : TEMPOEM
The message in this tempoem is a plea to all people to accept individuality, the leading of one's own life in one's own way without conforming to prevailing patterns.…
PRINCE PHILLIP'S PRIDE
A sequel to PRINCE PHILLIP OF TASSIE, updated on October 21, 2014.…
CROCUSES : SENRYU (Chain)
A shape senryu poem about a favorite early spring flower - the inspiration for this poem came from my love for the color, blue.…
GO GRANNY GO
Another limerick to make you smile.…
SPRITE : LIMERICK
An autobiographical limerick with a touch of satire…
BOYS' TALK
It's amazing what inspiration tutoring a grade seven boy can give a writer.…
A POET NAMED ANDREW : LIMERICK
When Wattpad poet, Andrew Green, recently decided to write his first tempoem, he met with a few obstacles along the way.…
J'AIME LES OISEAUX : SENRYU
The inspiration for this little spring poem came from the pleasurethat I derive from observing the birds in my garden as spring approaches.I consider them my family.…
WHAT HAPPENED TO NELL?
This poem depicts the authority of the headmistress in the all girls public high school that I attended in the latter half of the 1950s in Sydney, Australia.…
AIRPORTS, UGH!
I was inspired to write this rant in poetic triplet or tercet form on returning from my recent flight to visit my son.…