Sample Poem
Well it's poems rather than poem, to give a more rounded view of my work. One is exactly what the title says it is, included as I'm very pleased to be vegan and I like to have fun with it; the other is an experiment with some of my favourite poems - well, the ones whose copyright has expired. Enjoy.Animal-abuse-based traditional proverbs and sayings, de-animalised and made veganically correct, with apologies for the fact that I'm no good at snappy titles
We can kill two words with one tone.There isn't enough room in here to swing a cot.
Do I look ok, or do I look like Marmite dressed as jam?
A turd in the hand is worth President Bush.
To make a blanket, you have to break some threads.
There's more than one way to skin a kumquat.
Give a man a quiche and you feed him for a day
- invite him over for dinner and you might get to feel him for a night.
Your hair is as soft as silt.
Don't put all your ego in one bastard.
The curly nerd gets the perm.
Don't put a fish course in the mouth.
You can't make a slick verse from a lousy idea....
The Botanically-minded Plagiarist Forsees His Own Death
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decreeWhen all at once he saw a crowd of daffodils beside a tree.
One shade the more, one ray the less
had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waved in every yellow face;
For sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And every fair, from fair sometime declines -
In Flanders field the poppies grow
Between the crosses row on row.
Alas, all in their graves, the gentle race of flowers,
Lying in lowly beds with the fair and good of ours.
Tigerlily, tigerlily, blooming bright
Do not go gentle into that good night -
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
(With thanks and apologies to Yeats, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shakespeare, McCrae, William Cullen Bryant, Blake and Thomas.)