Just as an aside, I am cricketjeff because I know of seven different Jeff Greens and usually when I get to a website someone has beaten me to the gun, but Jeff is who I am!
A Happy Git
I for one am glad to have known
A poet named Jeff for I have grown
He's taught me ways to write my words
And how to rhyme with things like birds
A lovely man in waistcoats bright
His rhyming words are pure delight
He'll always be a friend so true
And cheer me up when I feel blue
Upon his gravestone should be writ
"Here lies our Jeff, a happy git"
Have a smile, don't shed a tear
He'll be back with more, I fear!
Sue Cardwell
I have found on this site some wonderful friends and great poets, have a look in on them:-
PassionsPromise, the queen of erotic writing, and a marvellous poet in many other genre, she can put more emotion into a few lines than anyone else I know.
Eusebius, writes Petrachan sonnets to die for and in many other forms, all with pluperfect rhyme and meter
Amera, writes forms, all forms now even including free verse! And she writes them all well. Her writing showed me it was worth exploring classical forms not just writing what sounded OK, I shall always be grateful for that!
Dalaney The best free verse poet alive.
- Last seen right now. Member since August 19, 2007.
- I'm a white rain poet for 10,165 comments.
- My mood is
, and quote is "In need of tea!!!". - I am a 51 year old man (United Kingdom)
- When I'm not writing, I'm a cricket fan and a sysadmin.
- Visit my homepage at www.nicewaistcoat.com
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(339)- I am in the groups Andante, Birthday Roasts and Toasts Post, Dancing in the Flames of Desire, Fantasy World, Masked Sonneteers Challenge Group, ON VIEWLESS WINGS Anthology 2009, On Viewless Wings Winter Edition 2010, Paul OVWA 2009, Rhyme and Meter Workshop, Seeking Perfect Rhyme And Rhythm, The Prompt Coffee House, Winklings, Winklings and OVWA appreciation gift
- I have 10,165 comments, 102 contests, 1 column, 2,433 poems, 1 journal
My Lists
- cricket
- Dark or mysterious
- Echo Sonnets
- Erotic or even downright rude
- Extralongameter
- family
- Fantasy
- For friends and other poets
- Free Verse
- Gold
- Just for Fun
- limericks
- Liz
- London
- love
- My best
- My published poetry
- Nature
- Needs work
- Not Bad
- other forms
- Political or satirical or cynical
- Pretty Pictures
- Sapphic Odes
- sensuous
- shadows
- silver
- Simple Science
- Sixains
- Snaggleduff and friends
- some good sonnets
- Sonnets
- The Moon
- The poems I love best
- To me, for me, about me but not by me
- Umbleania by the Sea
- Villanelles
Poems I'm focused on
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As I walked beside the water feeding ducks and skimming stones
I was whistling to the weather and the winter wind that moans -
The rivalries of men of state
The pride of petty Kings42 lines, 38 comments, November 10, 2008 -
Stand in silence out of duty and for love for all the brave
Stand in silence in the memory of all who fought and died35 lines, 38 comments, November 4, 2008 -
A faded leather notebook filled with lines he'd never read
Was never far away from where he slept -
The tridents of the tritons make a phalanx you should fear
And behind them ride the swordfish who can spit you like a spear
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The garden curled around us as we sat beneath the stars
In the silver silver shine of Venus and the rust red glow of Mars31 lines, 93 comments, May 26, 2008. In Love -
At a table in a garden on a soft sweet summer's night
Two friends are sitting talking by the moon's reflected light -
I want to sit and sip a drink
And talk of poetry -
Why can't I have Tuesday
It's only a day you know -
Every word that you write is the start of a river
Tumbling and fumbling its way to the sea -
I can never understand it.
Some men go out half dressed.10 lines, 43 comments, August 23, 2007
Active Contests
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Ian Wallace, famous in many parts of the world for singing Flanders and Swann, and Gilbert and Sullivan songs has died aged 90.
My Poetry
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In Umbleania by the Sea
They're giving cake away for free -
There's a male cow in the valley
He's a very gully bull -
There's a frost that's painted pictures on the bedroom window pane,
There's a blackbird finding titbits in the brickwork round the drain. -
The World's a hard and unforgiving place
For those who walk down some ill tended roads
My other items
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- Column: The poems that we like at allpoetry
We are running a large series of contests for rhyming poetry, since many of our entrants, and there have been a lot of entrants! Have queried their placement and the winners I thought I would write about the poetry that we like, and so what is likely to w
My journal entries
Guest Book
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PassionsPromise on November 6Just wondering...
but knowing...
I love you -
PassionsPromise on September 26Wanted to send you some love,
and thinking, well you know what im thinking...I love you ...
Tory
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ArdenAmnesiac on September 24
have a great day! <3 -
cookie cutter on September 22:[
