When a young lady named Lou
Said, “1 plus 1 equals 2”,
And her boyfriend, Mr Lee
Said, “shall we try 3?”.
Lou whacked him with her shoe!
1 Plus 1 Equals 3?
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Monthly Archives: August 2020
A Cold, Sharp Bark
A cold, sharp bark
Pearces the dark,
Interrupting a thought
I really ought
Not to indulge in,
Of women
And sin.
In the city
Those who are witty
Say, in fun,
“Civilisation is done”.
Whilst, in the dark
A fox’s bark
Sounds near, and clear.
When A Gorgeous Young Lady Named Lorraine
When a gorgeous young lady named Lorraine
Said, “your fantasies are far too mundane!
On hot nights I dream
Of lush strawberries with cream”.
I said, “you are covered in them, Lorraine!”.
Blank Verse
A young man named Frank
Composes verses known as blank.
I have spent ages
Pouring over Frank’s pages,
All of which are blank!
When A Young Man Driving A Hearse
When a young man driving a hearse
Said, “your verse is far too terse”,
I said, “man’s life is brief.
His joys must end in grief.
And please, may I drive that hearse!”.
The Plutocrat
When an extremely rude young man named Matt
Said, “you are a terrible, bloated old plutocrat!”,
I sipped my fine wine
And said, “shall we dine?”.
And I threw a crust to that Matt!
An Expert In Quick Dressing
An expert in quick dressing,
A pretty lass
Does her hair,
With no sign of stressing,
In his mute glass.
A man’s confession
Of sin, may outlive him.
And her profession
Will continue on,
Though she is gone.
When A Young Lady Wearing Heels
When a young lady wearing heels
Spoke to me of dodgy deals,
I said, “I am moral.
But let us not quarrel.”
And then she lost her heels!
I Met A Girl In Heels
I met a girl in heels
Swimming with some very cute seals.
I said, “you’ll ruin those shoes!”.
But, after lots of booze,
I joined her in my heels!
My Review of the Poemhunter App
I recently downloaded the Poemhunter app to my iphone, https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/poemhunter/id918149865.
The app is described on Apple’s website as follows:
“Poemhunter app is the poetry library in your phone with a huge archive of poems and poets of the world literature.
Whenever you feel like reading a poem, tap on Random Poem or swipe right, and see what this brings you. You will find the best poems for your mother or for your valentine.
Poemhunter has over 1.4 million poems from over 100,000 professional and amateur poets. We also keep adding a lot of new poems and poets to our archive every day. Continue to discover new poems and poets with Poemhunter app forever.”
My experience of using the Poemhunter app has been a generally positive one. For example my first use of the app brought up Edna St Vincent Millay’s beautiful poem “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed”, https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-lips-my-lips-have-kissed-and-where-and-why/. Having read this beautiful poem, I downloaded the collected poems of Vincent Millay from the Amazon Kindle store, and I’m currently enjoying reading the work of this fine poet.
Poemhunter is a good way of finding new poets and poems and I would recommend the app to poetry lovers.
On the less positive side, I found as a blind user of Apple’s Voiceover screenreader that the tabs within the app are not properly labelled to enable them to work with Voiceover. In addition the sharing buttons appear to be labelled in a language other than English, which makes it difficult to share content.
For anyone who does not own an Apple device, you can access Poemhunter on the web at https://www.poemhunter.com/.
K Morris - Poet 