The problem of evil revisited
Oh hail, ye mindless daemon sultan, hailWhose febril writhings in the netherspheres,Set branes a tremble, impacting, so those,Vast multispacial planes, thus clash and spring,Apart to birth the...
View ArticleAnominals
The problem with 'surprising bears'Is that they take you unawares.The issue with 'confusing cats'Is solved if they have unique hats.The language of 'perceptive pigs'Is is full of references to wigs.The...
View ArticleThe Graveyard of Circuses
Where old carnivales go to dieAnd skeletons in red coat and top hatCry out the novelties with the wind's old voice.Where clowns display the whitefaceOf the skull, and the sequin scales are shedFrom...
View ArticleOgden Nash replies to Philip Larkin
The toad work squatting on your lifeMay be no more than a froggle,A cute, come-on, or novel hat,That gets the passing pretty girls to goggle.Your mum and dadIt has to be believedWeren’t buttoned...
View ArticleThe Things I Like Best
All rhyme with 'ooh'Doctor WhoScooby DooI'm sorry I haven't a ClueFu-ManchuCthulhu...and you.
View ArticleShadows - a Lemon Cohen Song
I feel that something now in me is fading and is slowingA sense perhaps, that I was ever strongThough hereabout tall lime trees still, are shadowed and are growingMy shadow, as a shadow, isn't now...
View ArticleBeyond the Grave
Beyond the grave are there the undiscovered countries of the light? Are there somewhere citadels of rubies and of jet? Or is it just a place of endless, never changing night? Where shrinking skin...
View ArticleDark Revenge
Best served cold, on ebony dishesYou'll regret how you spurned my offerin'I'll teach you all to thwart my wishesWhen worms are crawling in your coffinYou'll regret how you spurned my offerin'All I have...
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The Hangmen - a note.
The Hangmen are my daughter Morgan's imaginary band, and she came up with the titles (all so dark) of their 'debut' album "And Those Who Hate Them". I'll be posting their songs as I write them. The...
View ArticleReviews of Resurrection Engines
Review of Resurrection EnginesAh, I've had it pointed out to me that this review, isn't by *that* Rachel, never the less I liked her story in Resurrection Engines so much that I'm as chuffed, as if...
View ArticleThe Brakespeare Voyage
I've been working on a novel for ten years on and off, and with thehelp of a co-writer Jonathan Dennis I've now finished the full first draft108,402 words.The one eventually up for sale may be leaner...
View ArticleOn seeking absolution on a full stomach
Strap me to your rack, TorquemadaAs things are going you can do your worstI confess I ate all the cake from the larderAnd now I feel as if I'm going to burst.Stare at me now severely SavonarolaI know...
View Article1918 to 2918
1918By KiplingThis is the State above the Law.The State exists for the State alone."[This is a gland at the back of the jaw,And an answering lump by the collar-bone.]Some die shouting in gas or...
View ArticleRandomiser Poems - Pre-amble.
Considering whether an algorithm could convert text to 'modern' poetry. I wrote a quick tool to take a text string, strip it to words.number each one and, randomise the string, and then give it in...
View ArticleTHE DUNWICH HORROR
Rise one Ayelesbury, upon just "And of the gnarled the, at singulary the wild and spied on ruts the The the wild and rise so upon just in weeds, to he the confronted gnarled Dean's have...
View ArticleTHE BRAKESPEARE VOYAGE
A: its reddish 91 masked and had of face it the old On a its of was the sex a crew that an been lenses. had of face it The atoms, have chords, bag, burlap of was the sex...
View ArticleTHE BRAKESPEARE VOYAGE - Update II
Update2nd draft now with co-writer and editor. I'm going to be off-line until the 8th April.Anything interesting that gets cut for length I promise will appear either here or elsewhere in due course....
View ArticleLiking (in) Sagrada Familia
LIKE looking upIn a stone forest whereStars have tangled in theBranches of the winter trees.LIKE bathing in differentColoured streamsFrom pools litBy a thousand moons.LIKE feeling that(In imagination,...
View ArticleMORE TALES OF THE CITY
More Tales Of The City, preview of my storyMy brother author and all-round good Egg, Philip Purser-Hallard is setting out his stall for the forthcoming More Tales of The City: a collection set in the...
View ArticleHer Name Was Merlina CSi5m
Been a while, here's a 'Pulp' song..I knew a girl and her name was Merlina,If you saw her in the street you'd know that you'd seen her,She had braided hair,And a thousand mile stare.She wore a torc and...
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