I tend to write funny, metered rhyming poems, though I occasionally mix these up with pieces with more serious tone, rare free verse, bad haiku, experimental pieces exploring various features of poetry, and the like. The funny stuff is overall more competent, so don't be put off by the other random writes. Occasionally I write the Mathematical Game poems, which present a mathematical puzzle in poetry, and invite readers to solve them for a point reward.
I try to leave critical comments when a poem's page indicates it's acceptable, and it's not a contest entry for a contest that I have a poem in. Remember they're just my thoughts and lack all literary authority if indeed such authority can be said to exist. Please do the same for my poems, especially the Poems I'm Focused On, if you can. How else are we supposed to improve, I ask you?
I'll never get rid of my old poems! I like to see how my writing changes over time. The old stuff doesn't mean much to me any more; please focus on the newer 2009+ work.
I am a mechanist of poetry; I wish to learn how it is constructed. It is just words. What are the techniques of selecting and combining these words? What are the rules? I wish to systemise it so that its mysteries are explained and explicable.
A List of Tales:
(These are written in a distinctive style, basically rhyming fantastical humour that is probably hit and miss.)
A Lesson For All: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5404269
Deliver Me: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5408007
Character Assassination Is The New News: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5411331
Programmable Tragic Defect: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5413371
Someone Else's Dream: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5413861
Cannibal Cake: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5416867
Of Zeatins and Auxins: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5419421
The Measure Of All Numbers: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5428415
A Tale Of Two Typefaces: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5431323
The Box Of Metaphors: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5432937
Other Things To Make You Laugh:
I dance on eggshell footpaths: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5411557
Ode to a Cheeseburger: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5417925
Sing a sonnet of sixpence: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5404729
Amazing Bolt: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5433175
(ADULT) Wish You Were Here: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5453043
Do Not Ignore Me When I Comment Grim: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5469823
Mathematical Games:
#1: http://allpoetry.com/poem/1443913
#2: http://allpoetry.com/poem/1443952
#3: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5398195
#4: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5411747
#5: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5429739
Anything Else That I Hope Is Less Incompetent Than Average:
Your Promises Are All Played Out: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5413927
Drifting: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5414279
Night's Purpose: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5415067
Beauty Of Refraction: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5417257
Zymurgy: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5419575
The Woman In The Bazaar: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5424893
Liberatores: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5426431
Sacrilege: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5458827
I try to leave critical comments when a poem's page indicates it's acceptable, and it's not a contest entry for a contest that I have a poem in. Remember they're just my thoughts and lack all literary authority if indeed such authority can be said to exist. Please do the same for my poems, especially the Poems I'm Focused On, if you can. How else are we supposed to improve, I ask you?
I'll never get rid of my old poems! I like to see how my writing changes over time. The old stuff doesn't mean much to me any more; please focus on the newer 2009+ work.
I am a mechanist of poetry; I wish to learn how it is constructed. It is just words. What are the techniques of selecting and combining these words? What are the rules? I wish to systemise it so that its mysteries are explained and explicable.
A List of Tales:
(These are written in a distinctive style, basically rhyming fantastical humour that is probably hit and miss.)
A Lesson For All: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5404269
Deliver Me: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5408007
Character Assassination Is The New News: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5411331
Programmable Tragic Defect: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5413371
Someone Else's Dream: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5413861
Cannibal Cake: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5416867
Of Zeatins and Auxins: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5419421
The Measure Of All Numbers: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5428415
A Tale Of Two Typefaces: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5431323
The Box Of Metaphors: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5432937
Other Things To Make You Laugh:
I dance on eggshell footpaths: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5411557
Ode to a Cheeseburger: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5417925
Sing a sonnet of sixpence: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5404729
Amazing Bolt: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5433175
(ADULT) Wish You Were Here: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5453043
Do Not Ignore Me When I Comment Grim: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5469823
Mathematical Games:
#1: http://allpoetry.com/poem/1443913
#2: http://allpoetry.com/poem/1443952
#3: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5398195
#4: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5411747
#5: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5429739
Anything Else That I Hope Is Less Incompetent Than Average:
Your Promises Are All Played Out: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5413927
Drifting: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5414279
Night's Purpose: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5415067
Beauty Of Refraction: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5417257
Zymurgy: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5419575
The Woman In The Bazaar: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5424893
Liberatores: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5426431
Sacrilege: http://allpoetry.com/poem/5458827
- Last seen 10 hours ago. Member since March 19, 2005.
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, and quote is "too busy to write much at all". - I am a guy (Great Britain)
- When I'm not writing, I'm a medical student.
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Sleepwalking
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Chapter Three: A Meeting In Darkness
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Chapter Two: A Farmer’s Daughter
Greenvalley Farm in Anaxis Province was not a single farm, as foreigners always expected, but a union of individual farmers in the Grina Val1142 lines, July 24, 2005. In <200 lines, Childrens
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Judith Chandler on July 14Hi, how are you? Hope things are going well.
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AngelBellerose on June 24thanks for stopping by again to read a poem hugs Angel♥
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ea on June 23Thank you for your interest in the "wreath" and for your kind comment on my column. I see you have written a wreathed sonnet and it's great to see the wreath take hold as more people become aware of it...
