Poetry Index

This index lists all the poems that have appeared up to October, 2013.

They are organised alphabetically within theme. The ones at the start do not fit easily into any particular theme.

Title/Link	Date	Topics	Comment
A Poem For The Apocalypse	21/12/12	-
A Puzzle Poem	17/08/09	-
After The Eye-Drops	14/05/11	-
An Eastbourne Moment	23/08/11	-
Eye of the Beholder	03/05/13	-
Ghosts In The Subway	04/05/13	-
Heartless, Brainless		-
Lost	25/04/13	-
Metaphor	03/05/13	-	A fibonacci poem
Night And Day/ Day And Night	09/04/10	-	An attempt at a poetic form called a Reverso
Purple	02/05/13	-
She Isn't There	07/02/10	-
Struck By Lightning/ Frankenstein's Triumph	09/04/10	-	And another one
Teaching Fox To Fly	20/10/10	-
The Machine	02/05/13	-
The Metaphor Machine	11/08/10	-
The Writer	13/08/09	-
Transient Poetry	09/01/10	-
Unlikely Descriptions Of Time	07/06/11	-
Untrue Colours	08/12/09	-
Yellow	17/04/13	-
You Are Mister Potato Head	30/07/10	-
Zoetrope	06/08/09	-
Preparing For The Adventure	18/04/08	Alice In Wonderland
Little Mo	09/10/12	Animals
Photographing Penguins	03/01/10	Animals
Bird Blind	12/05/10	Animals/ Humour
Abstract art	27/04/08	Art	Also appears at the OEDILF
Cave Art	29/09/09	Art
Clown Torture	19/01/09	Art
Event Horizon	07/10/08	Art
Exhibition	22/06/10	Art
Modern Art	27/04/08	Art	All about the Saatchi Gallery
Modern Art II	27/04/08	Art	A double-dactyl
The conflation of alternate forms in the minds of the artists	09/08/10	Art
The Fire	07/10/08	Art
When Does It Cease To Be Art	07/10/08	Art
Becoming A Ghost	02/04/11	Autobiography
Eleventh Floor Solitary Blues	18/05/11	Autobiography
First Day	01/03/11	Autobiography
First Love In Flashback	09/03/11	Autobiography
Freedom	26/02/11	Autobiography
Games Lessons	13/03/10	Autobiography
Lecturers	18/05/11	Autobiography
Long Division	06/07/09	Autobiography
Long Division:Reprise	06/03/11	Autobiography
My Year	07/08/09	Autobiography	A series of four linked haiku
Random Scenes From A Childhood	04/04/09	Autobiography
Safe And Secret Places I	02/03/09	Autobiography
Solitary Symphony	15/06/09	Autobiography
Sometimes People Clap	14/05/11	Autobiography
Summer On The Hill	02/08/10	Autobiography
Synthesis	28/02/09	Autobiography
The Child On The Swing	07/03/09	Autobiography
The Hum	14/05/11	Autobiography
The Naughty Chair	11/03/09	Autobiography
Walking In My Mind	22/08/09	Autobiography	A very complicated visual poem
Overlay	04/05/11	Autobiography
A Box Of Rainbows	19/04/13	Childhood
All Chinese To Me	11/09/12	China
Another Street, Another Trench	09/10/12	China
Baiyin Part 1	01/09/11	China
Bar Room Vignettes/The Score At Close of Play	29/02/12	China	Finishes the typical day sequence
Before The Day Can Begin	18/02/12	China
Classroom Poem #1	21/02/12	China
Classroom Poem #2	25/02/12	China
Eight Ball Blues	29/02/12	China
Fireworks	09/05/12	China
From Here To There	19/02/12	China
From There To Here	22/02/12	China
Lunch	23/02/12	China
Schoolyard Blues And Whites	20/02/12	China
The Importance of Technology In The Modern Home	26/02/12	China
The Third Piece	27/02/12	China
The Unchanging World of Mr and Mrs Sun	24/02/12	China
Today It Didn't Rain	10/05/13	China
Unnatural Habitat	17/02/12	China
All Through The Long Dark Night	16/02/12	China/ Autobiography	Begins a sequence about a typical day in Baiyin
Christmastime in Baiyin	19/12/11	China/ Christmas
Little Things	09/10/12	China/ Food
The Chimneys of Bilston, The Chimneys of Baiyin	11/05/13	China/ Travel
That Time of Year Again	11/12/12	Christmas
Thirteenth Morning	23/04/11	Christmas
Smiles For The Camera	04/05/13	Christmas/ Life
A Trivial Observation	18/08/10	Education
Summer School Haiku	04/08/11	Education
Summer School Haiku	04/08/11	Education
Traces	17/08/10	Education
I Wish I Speak Well English	15/04/10	Education/ Society
Horsemeat	17/02/13	Food
The Vegetarian	12/07/08	Food	A limerick
The Chef's Obsession with Mushrooms	18/08/09	Food/ Humour
A Litany of Farewells	20/08/09	Goodbye
Advice	01/08/10	Humour
All Things To All Men	29/07/10	Humour
Bounce	13/12/09	Humour
Building A Monster	06/05/10	Humour
Can't Please Everyone	22/07/09	Humour
Doggerel	30/04/10	Humour
Graffiti	25/07/10	Humour	A limerick
How To Avoid Being Eaten By A Bear	12/08/09	Humour
Hypochondria	17/05/13	Humour
I Have A Little Penguin	16/05/13	Humour
My Brother's Hobby	26/07/10	Humour
On Being Joined In The Pub By Two Female Colleagues Whose Limited Range of Conversation Gambits Had previously been remarked Upon	22/08/08	Humour
On The 50th Birthday of Sliced Bread	07/06/11	Humour
Peter The Penguin	11/04/08	Humour
Pets I Never Had	04/05/10	Humour
Procrastination	18/04/10	Humour
Pumpkin Thoughts	13/05/13	Humour
The Birthday	29/06/10	Humour
The Monster	02/07/10	Humour
The Return of The Invisible Fish	22/07/10	Humour
The Rolling Stones	09/08/09	Humour	A series of clerihews
The Snail	15/08/09	Humour
Why Elephant's Don't Drive	13/12/09	Humour
Santa Claus Is Coming To Getcha	23/12/08	Humour/ Christmas
We Gotta Kill Santa	23/12/08	Humour/ Christmas
I Cannot Eat A Mushroom	22/12/09	Humour/ Food
My Favourite Things	08/08/10	Humour/ Parody
31,536,000 Seconds	04/04/08	Juvenilia
An Unexpected Silence	10/01/09	Juvenilia
Faces	30/10/08	Juvenilia
New Songs For Hollow Faces	22/12/10	Juvenilia
No One Sent The Card	30/10/08	Juvenilia
Silences	17/02/09	Juvenilia
The Sparrow	25/09/08	Juvenilia
Transient	15/09/08	Juvenilia
Wednesday	07/02/10	Juvenilia
Not A Saint Valentines Day Poem	13/02/09	Juvenilia/ Love
Rebuilding Babel	27/08/11	Language
A Wall Ten feet Thick	12/05/13	Life
Alice	16/11/10	Life
Bubbles	13/04/13	Life	Begins a Cycle of Poems called “35 Days”
Build A Better Mousetrap	08/08/10	Life
Castle Walls	25/06/10	Life
Cracks	02/05/13	Life
Creatures In The Depths	20/04/13	Life
Day By Day	27/07/10	Life
Different In Their Day	25/04/11	Life
From Out Of The Deep	28/07/10	Life
Holes (1)	08/03/10	Life
Holes (2)	02/04/10	Life
Insignificance	17/05/13	Life
Last Dog In The Pound	28/11/09	Life
Lucky Dip	23/12/09	Life
Maths Facts	23/04/13	Life
Mosaic	26/10/10	Life
Ten Items Or Less	23/07/10	Life
The Couple	09/07/09	Life
The Death of Silence	08/08/10	Life
The Lost City	12/08/10	Life
The Romans And Us	29/03/11	Life
The Storm	17/05/13	Life
There Was A Future	10/04/11	Life
Three Haiku	15/08/10	Life
Unundoable Things	03/05/13	Life
What The Day Had To Be	25/04/11	Life
Wolverhampton Station, 4th June	06/06/11	Life
A Saint Valentines Day Poem	14/02/09	Love
Chaos Theory	07/01/09	Love
Love Sequence	02/04/10	Love
Love Was Never Real	09/07/09	Love
The Day the Sun Set	14/04/13	Love
Valentines Day	14/02/10	Love
Watching Clouds	09/05/10	Love
Watching The Diamonds	31/07/10	Love
A Drawer Full of Keys	07/05/13	Memorial
Away From The Crowd	15/07/09	Memorial
Bright Lines And Dark	15/04/13	Memorial
By His Belongings	07/06/11	Memorial	I think this is one of my most powerful poems
Cemetery Sunset	08/06/11	Memorial
For Jerry	08/08/09	Memorial	A series of linked cinquains
Memorium 1	15/04/12	Memorial
Memorium 2	23/04/12	Memorial
Mourning Haiku	27/10/10	Memorial
Never Enough Time	12/10/10	Memorial
The Garden	24/04/13	Memorial
Different Skies	22/03/09	Memorials
Capturing The Thunder	29/12/09	Music
Andrew's Haiku	04/08/11	People
His Masks	06/06/11	People
Jim Morrison DD	11/08/09	People	A double dactyl
No One In Particular	10/08/10	People
Through The Keyhole	12/12/09	People
The Poetry Evening	12/05/11	Poetry
Liberation	22/04/10	Politics
Teamwork	30/04/10	Politics/ Humour
Balance	26/04/10	Politics/ Society
A Wiser Choice	06/05/13	Religion
Signs And Symbols	16/06/10	Religion
The Atheist's Lament	02/08/09	Religion
These Were The Ways of The Ancients	28/12/09	Society
Window Dressing	12/12/09	Society
A Nod To The New God	06/05/09	Travel
A Walk In The Snow	06/04/11	Travel
Absolutism	13/04/10	Travel
Balloons	14/12/09	Travel
Bangkok Hustle	29/05/08	Travel
Brochure Dreams	29/06/08	Travel
Don't Need	06/08/09	Travel
DPRK	03/01/10	Travel
Dragon Fight 2	13/02/10	Travel
Feneos Afternoon	25/08/08	Travel
Flower Show	04/06/09	Travel
Iffleague Arties	10/07/08	Travel
In Hella	02/04/08	Travel	Written in Iceland
Malawi Morning	24/07/09	Travel
Morning In The Karlak Mountains	28/07/09	Travel
Northern Lights	02/04/08	Travel	Written in Iceland
Nothing Under The Sun	02/08/08	Travel
On The Inca Trail	16/02/09	Travel
Other Childhoods	06/07/09	Travel
Outside and Inside the Mountain	16/08/09	Travel
Rainbow In The Water	18/04/13	Travel
Remembering Africa	07/04/10	Travel
Seeing The Sights	29/05/08	Travel	Another of the Poetry on the Metro entries
SS Great Britain	04/04/11	Travel
Stars	02/08/09	Travel	A Fibonacci poem
Storm	22/04/13	Travel
Sunset on the African Plains	11/04/10	Travel
Sunsets	05/05/13	Travel
The Buying And Selling of Saints	26/07/08	Travel
The Chinese Village	24/12/09	Travel	A haiku
The Glory of the Leader	14/08/09	Travel
The Hitting The Road Again Blues	25/3/08	Travel	The poem that started it all. This poetry was a prize winner in the Wolverhampton Poetry on the Metro competition.
The Invisible People of Prague	04/01/11	Travel
The Last Place	16/04/13	Travel
The Perfect Moment	09/04/10	Travel
The Road That Runs Through	31/3/08	Travel	An unsuccessful entry for the same competition
The White Desert	02/08/08	Travel
These Things Define the Day	05/10/09	Travel
To The Start of a Hike	31/3/08	Travel	Originally untitled.
Travelers' Tales	21/04/13	Travel
Two Nights	02/08/09	Travel
View From A Train	28/03/11	Travel	There are a large number of unindexed pseudo-poems under the general title “A River of Stones”. A few of them were subsequently reworked into proper poems.
Waiting for the Holiday To Begin	29/05/08	Travel	Another of the Poetry on the Metro entries
Five Dreams Of Travel	06/02/10	Travel
The Pig	16/08/10	Travel/ Animals
Hotel Trinidad	07/04/08	Travel/ Art
Statues	21/02/09	Travel/ Art
Strange Empire	26/04/08	Travel/ Art
My Special Perfect Hell	08/05/13	Travel/ Books/ China
Solar System	04/05/13	Travel/ China
Dead Things	02/04/08	Travel/ Conservation	Written in Iceland
Not An Egg	01/05/13	Travel/ Food
Part Time Vegetarians	28/11/09	Travel/ Food
Milking The Cash Camel	24/07/10	Travel/ Humour
The Teddy Bear House	12/08/09	Travel/ Humour
Rudolph In A Tin	23/12/08	Travel/ Humour/ Food
Then and Now	10/08/09	Travel/ Love	A poor attempt at a villanelle
In Gallipoli Museum	04/04/08	Travel/ War
Understanding	20/07/09	War
The Woo Continuum	30/05/11	Woo
Four Hundred Words	01/05/11	Work