Questions?

Is this a poem

If I say it is?

Must it rhyme

And use clever words?

Does writing one poem

Make me a poet

Or must I intend

To write more?

(by the Unknown Apologist who ‘finally got round to writing something’... thank you whoever you are... perhaps you could write us a poem with some answers next time?)

Monday

Maybe

Other days are

Nicer, don’t look so

Dreadful in the diary, but I

Am trying to not hold the bad against

You as I don’t want to be hating/wasting a seventh of my life.

(by Anon... thank you for that. Navigating Mondays seems to be an art).

Black Beauty

(By Oliver Meadows. Thank you Oliver! A great acrostic. I love the last rhyming couplet. I would think there are many people as well as horses who could relate to this.... I also now have the theme tune from Black Beauty stuck in my head. Poetry has power).

poem

(Anon. Thank you whoever you are... finally some wisdom in a poem!).

(untitled)

It's that time of year when seeds call out
'Plant me, I'll grow', you hear them shout.
So in good faith you toil away,
Happy in your work all day.
But come September, what's to show,
Holes in leaves; slim trails in every row.
Oh well, the wildlife will live for another year at least!

(A disheartened gardener. - Thank you for sharing that, I think many of us with fumbling/failing green-fingers can understand. Also, thank you, whoever you are, for the poem via my pigeon hole... I remember my old English teacher (who was a bit like Major from Fawlty Towers) would say "I keep pigeons in my pigeon hole"... I can say I get poems in mine! Thank you!)

a mini history lesson

The

British burnt

Down

Washington’s White House

Two hundred years ago

Although few people here seem

To know that it had happened –

Lost between the War of Independence

And the American Civil War

While we were busy with Napolean

And gearing up for Waterloo -

Another part of British History

To feel embarrassed by

And ashamed of

But with things to teach us

Nevertheless.

(A. N. Historian... thank you Ms/Mr/Mrs Historian for that lesson).

t and beyond

There

are things

I need to

Work on – improve, cease

To do. I heard that

The Model-T Ford was named so

Because it was Henry Ford’s twentieth attempt.

I, myself, have clearly gone beyond the alphabet.

(Anon... Thank you, whoever you are. I wonder what is beyond the alphabet? Any ideas?)