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Double Celebration
A poem celebrating a famous duo Their music springs fresh as fountain Or ‘edelweiss’ scenting the air, They climbed every musical...
The Write Stuff
An imagined Six Rules of Writing that a famous author might have written The six rules for writing are all contained in the acronym,...
Inconsequential
An extract from a bodice-ripping romance containing half a dozen pieces of inconsequential information ‘Hark! Hark! The lark,’ (as in...
Vice Verse
An amusing portrait in verse about the vice and folly of mankind ‘Lettuce spray,’ the bishop spat, ‘for all who lose their way And choose...
De Haut En Bas
An extract from the biography of a modern day celebrity ghost written by a literary great It is a sun-dappled dawn. See. Dover sinks...
Reunion Blues
A poem on the horrors of a reunion ‘Good evening, sir, wind down the window please, Perhaps you’d like to tell me where you’ve been.’ And...
Altogether Now
Coined collective nouns for tweeters, hackers, hoodies, WAGs, environmentalists, bankers, MPs and contrarians A tedium of tweeters A...
Lonely Hearts
A profile for an on-line dating website of a well-known politician, living or dead Welsh by birth in verse romantic, Rhyming, I write....
Talking Shop
From different authors, a conversation between two characters with the same job or position ‘Apart from being lawyers we seem to have...
That Was The Year That Was
A retrospective commentary in verse of the year 2014 Firstly the weather (according to Twitter): ‘From bitter to better then wetter to...
Picture This
A poem for a well known painting Aye, clearly there’s a story here, A story here, Less tranquil than it might appear Beneath that...
Georgic
A poem giving a list of rules or instructions The hamlet of Bladderslop (twinned with Bordeaux) Bids visitors heed the instructions...
Postscipt
A postscript to a well-known novel ‘Is this a dream or a nightmare? I am old and in an asylum where everyone, other than me, is mad. I...
Buttoned Up or Open Neck?
A poem in conventional verse mocking free verse Pace you who, scorning rules and reason, Write rambling lines which neither scan nor...
Let's Twist
A short story with a twist at the end Tomorrow would be a busy day, the doctors at nine and the boiler man at eleven. But having been...
Light Touch
A light-hearted poem on a serious topic The act of prostitution is a serious offence, As witnessed by the jury in this tale of decadence:...
Hatchet Job
A hatchet job by a well-known author on a book or poem by another well-known writer You wandered like ‘a cloud’ you say Aye, cloud you...
Rhyme Time
A poem containing as man ingenious rhymes as possible Oh Mister Gove, how quick and slick you are To spot the rot in things curricular,...
Showtime
A well-known poem re-written on a pompous and prolix style A sad lament in poesy I tender, A melancholy song in sorrow sung Of one, an...
Twitterature
Well-known works of literature reconstituted as tweets (i.e. texts of up to 140 characters including spaces). Time’s beginning is time’s...
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