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  • Kiss and Sell

    What is a glamour model to do when her boobies start to droop. A girl has to earn a crust somehow and when the main item on the CV reads "Getting my tits out for the boys" it tends to narrow one's options a little.

    Read how Fabulous Felicity solved the problem in Kiss and Sell

  • Ode To Hazel (in the style of E.J. Thribb)

    So farewell Hazel
    Blears.
    The manner of your leaving
    was so typical of a ginge.
    You had to whinge
    about being picked on.
    I will remember you,
    for what it's worth, you were
    always my favourite Smurf.
    But losing you Hazel Blears
    will cause few tears.

  • Freedom retreats with its arse on fire as Banana's poem reveals.

    Over a year of inavtivity on this blog, I'm surprised it is still here.

    Well I haven't done much myself recently but can recomment the prolific and talented Banana to lovers of comic verse.

    Try this as an introduction, a story that will strike a chord with many parents of grown up, unattached children (and hopefull a few grown up children will take it on board too - ours in particular.

    De Problem With Defooing

  • Earth Strikes Back

    Check out Poetry Life and Times August 07 issue and read the inteview with Ian Thorpe on the role of protest poetry in the battle against climate change.

    Poetry Life and Times

    Also check out some thought provoking poems at Authorsden:

    Peccavimus
    African Ambition

    Feel The Burn

    The Offcomer

    Have a look at my sweetie Janet Caldwells interview and poems too:

    5 degrees to separation

    Minimize

    Pancake Girl

    First Haircut

    What Lies In Sight

    Ancient Lover

    ODfallout1

    EJTrad

  • Poets Cornered Returns with The Tardy Miss T.

    It took a long time to decide what to do with this blog, I am not such a prolific poet that I could post a new poem a day (or even one a week)even were the blog not restricted to comic verse.

    It finally struck me, blog other people's amusing poems.

    So let's start off with A Prayer For The Late Lissa T. written by a lady who is sure she will be late for her own funeral.

  • A Hippie’s Solstice by Brother Bastion

    A Hippie’s Solstice
    by Brother Bastion

    ‘twas midsummer’s morning on Salisbury Plain
    while waiting for sunrise on the solstice day
    all around the great henge Druids congregated,
    their anticipation made the dawn seem belated.
    Suddenly on the horizon appeared one single ray,
    I looked to my mate Pigpen on the grass where he lay
    saying “rise up good Pigpen for the Solstice is here.”
    “Fuck off hippie,” he said, popping another beer.

    Check out Brother Bastion’s music at MySpace

  • Poetry Life and Times

    This month sees a relaunch for British poetry e-zine Poetry Life and Times under the editorship of Robin Ouzman Hislop.

    I am featured along with other poets bringing vetry different styles from around the world. The mag had been stagnant for a while as pressure of work weighed increasingly heavily on the previous editor, Sara Russell. Fortunately Robin, like me, is a gentleman of leisure these days so no likely intrusions from the increasingly frenetic world of the workaholic society.

    I hope you get time to check out the mag, bookmark it, and maybe even consider submitting your work for a future issue.

  • Fires of Love (Beltane)

    Tried to post this yesterday but it has not showed up. The servers are so slow at the moment it probably timed out.

    Not a comedy poem but one for my pagan friends, with a brief description of what Beltane is all about for the "infidels."

    Fires of Love

    Hope to get poets coirnered back online soon but finding people willing to contribute is soooo difficult and I can't expect half a dozen people to keep it going.

  • Someone keeps visiting

    One or two hits every day mean the site is getting visited. It coulod be a search engine spider of course...
    I will be starting this project again very soon, all that is holding me up at the moment is trying to work out how to make it fly and bring contributing poets the audience they deserve.

    But I am getting there.

    Cheers
    Ian

  • Apology

    Sorry for absence folks, back in a few days.
    Ian

  • Horizon News by Robin Ouzman Hislop

    A newcomer today, with a dark and sardonic poem. Well its been that kind of a week.

    Horizon News.
    by Robin Ouzman Hislop

    Nobody wants to say
    New Millennium
    Got off in a bad way.

    No sugar for the coolies,
    Government shortage of oil,
    To pay or not to pay.

    But O brave new world
    In the name of your host et al
    Your legacy's crashed.

    robin ouzman hislop 2005

  • rickle Down Theory by John de Roe

    a rich man
    steps in a dog-turd
    on his doorstep,
    swears at a tradesman
    who has called to
    present his bill

    the tradesman
    is unctious, but then
    sacks his workman.
    a good man who
    is not to blame
    for his sad demeanour

    the workman is bitter
    he beats a beggar
    who lives on the street
    has no home or family
    holds no position
    and can go no lower

    the beggar kicks out
    at a passing dog
    he kicks out his anger
    he kicks at injustice
    a rich man's injustice
    that has trickled down to him

    the dog has no reason,
    no means of stating his case,
    feels pain, instinctively knows
    where that kick got started.
    He shits on a doorstep.
    The rich man's doorstep.

    Check out Beloved Succubus a gothic horror poem with audio

  • English Haiku by Michael St Mark & Ian Thorpe

    NOTE: Haiku are a Japanese poetic form consisting of seventeen syllables arranged in lines of 5,7 and 5 syllables. A true haiku conforms to a philosophical definition too, in fact a Japanse - American poet of my acquaintance holds the opinion that haiku can never work properly in English because it is a verbose language where as Japanese is a highly nuanced language with a completely different structure. Undeterred, your resident intrepid adventurers Mike St. Mark and Ian Thorpe plunged into the deep end...

    1. Haiku in English

    Haiku are fine things
    but not always well suited
    to the rules of Eng...

    2. 'ear 'ear

    Do old mens' ears grow?
    Or is it their heads that shrink?
    Ask them; they won't 'ear.

    3. Disconnection

    A butterfly flaps
    its wings in the rain forest,
    that's all, la,la,la

    4 To The Poet Laureate - Poetry on Motion

    Poet Laureate?
    He is not a poet and
    he does not know it

    5. England

    England, my England.
    Held up in a gridlock I
    miss the soaps again

    6. Haiku to Autumn (after Keats)

    Season of mists and
    mellow fruitfulness. Christmas
    in shops already.

  • Stop Trackback Spammers

    We have all been annoyed by the outbreak of trackback spammers. This is just a ruse by people to zonk their site up the search engine ratings and is not personal so nothing to worry about. Each trackback they do creates a link from your page to theirs thus zapping up their page rating score in Search Engine listings.
    To stop it:
    Open your [Blogs] tab on the taskbar above your workspace. All your blogs are shown in a list
    For each blog in turn:
    Click on the (Settings) icon
    When the page opens look along the task bar for the [publishing] tab and open it.
    Scroll down until you find the Trackbacks checkbox. It will be set to allow trackbacks. Click on the box so that it is clear. Trackbacks on your blog are now disallowed and the robots these spammers are using should not be able to function in your page code.

    If you find any of the above makes your mind conjure up pictures of little pink mice dancing the can can just mail me.
    Also spread this info around to your friends.
    Power To The People
    Ian

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  • The Dinner Plates of Old England by Hereward The Worzel

    The Dinner Plates of Old England by Hereward the Worzel

    The dinner plates of old England
    are forever under threat
    by foreign foes of every hue
    from Capsicum to Courgette.

    Since Romans brought their zucchini
    to plant roots in English soil
    invaders from around the world
    have come, soaked in olive oil.

    'taters from the Virginias,
    Tomaters from Armenia,
    Perfidious papist mange-tout peas?
    They gave us schizophrenia.

    The zestful, sneering citrus fruits
    with their gaudy, ghastly skins
    give native apples a complex, but
    the fightback now begins.

    Mangol Wurzel warriors, warlords
    of the noble turnip clan
    marshal radishes, parsnips, beets;
    plumed carrots march in our van.

    We will ally our armies with
    hoards of stately English greens,
    make kitchen gardens safe again
    for honest native beans.

    Hark to the hungry Englishman,
    and heed his famished shouts
    the phlegms can go back to Brussels,
    and they can keep their sprouts

    We shall drive out the offcomer,
    no compote or julienne,
    but steaming hunks of boiled grey gunk,
    food fit for Xenophon.

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