
For all those poems dealing with daily life, and to be honest all those which don’t fit anywhere else.
Poems about Clothes & Appearance:
Accessories at Large
Brolly Dolly
Buttons
Crystal
Darker Later
Fashion Police
A Fingerful of Fool’s Gold
Footloose
Foot Mittens
For Man was Made in the Image of God
Glabrous Glands
The High-Shod Strut
The Hollow Crown
Hoops & Smits
Lockdown Locks
Nothing below the Wrist, Nothing above the Clavicle
The Opiate of the Masses
Raspberry Ripple
Shower Song
Socks Again
Starve the Addiction
Umbrella Umbrage
Unhappy Feet
Wigging Out
Wordwear
World Peace
Poems about Food & Drink:
A la Cartload
Acid Verse
Advent in November
Allspice
Belgian Lessons
Bread Stick
The Crocks
Dioxide Diet
Drowning in the Jordan
Eau Dear
Fish on Friday
A Friend in Blend
The Good Life
Goodwill
The Groaning Trencher
Hairshirts
Harvest Song
Harvest Traffic
The Holy Grail
Know your Onions
Kosher Insecta
Macaroni
A Meal For One
Ophelia’s Pharmacy
Pepper-Leper
A Pinch of Salt
The Poets’ Almagnac
The Queen of the Cockles
Richard Feynman
Robinless Rounds
Running for Office
Shelf-Life
Spearleeks
Suds’ Law
Swamm-Lore
Tillers of the Ground
Too Many Mugs
Undrunk
Unnatural Selection
Valentine Sestina
The Vegetable Plot
Wild Barley
Poems about Modern Living:
Aerialatrix
And now, Here is the News
April Howlers
A-wub-duh-dree-furr
Bankrupt Holiday
Basecamp
Baubles
Bough-Dangles
Britannias
Cats’ Eyes
The Chill in the Air
Chrissie Cards
Con Spiracy
Consumer Power
Cyber-Subs
December Downtime
December the First
Dramatic Tension
Dry January
England without the English
Fads & Fangles
False Positives
Fascists
Fear & Statistics
Forget-Full
Giga-Verse
A Great British Tradition
Greysuits
Gulls & Marks
How Men Part
I Want to Believe
“I want to say one word to you, Benjamin, just one word…”
Insomnia
It’s All Good Stuff
January the Sixth
John Bull Jack
Keydom
The Knobs Turn Both Ways
Last Man In
Last Train to Nowhere
Like Rain…
Looking With My Fingers
Middle-Class Decline
Mist Connection
Newzak
Ode to Laze
Out of Lock
Overwhelmed by Subtlety
Pens Down !
The Price of Knowledge
Pro Crastinator
The Providence Plot
Quantums
Regulation Jollity
Requiems Retold
Resolutions
Rosetta
The Root of Necessary Evil
Rush
Saint Random’s Day
Same Old New Year
Scurry
Scuttlebutt Scandals
The Selfie-Stick
Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda, Buddha
Silent Night
So Many Locks, So Few Keys
Solo Carol
Something Fishy
Suburban Spruces
Too Many Winks
A Troubled Brow
Twist & Flex
Two Quid Ain’t Worth Tuppence These Days
Unclip the Capo
Undreamt
Unspruced Pine
Was That The Year, Then ?
Who Watches the Watches ?
Wireless-less
Poems about School:
Conjure-Less
Doves & Cockerels
Duality
Giga-Verse
Graduation Poem
Handle for a Han Girl
The Haunted Schoolyard
Jurassic Lark
Lesson
The Lord God Made Them All
Ovine Inspiration
Pens Down !
Pond Life
The Price of Knowledge
Quarter Days
The Rose & The Nightingale
Scholastic Surgery
Slow Poke
Spider Spiters
Te Deum
To the Future
Twins I Have Known
White Knowledge
Poems about Sport, Games, & Dancing:
The Ball-&-Socket Ball
Bunting in the Rain
Carcassong
Christmas Crackered
De-rigging the Deck
Dead Man’s Hand
Englischer Waltzer
Forever Second Place in a Beauty Contest
Football Widows
Hat Plus One
How To Get Back Home From Outer Space #H – (transport)
John Bull Jack
A Landrace of Snails
Mate in One
Million-Dollar Flippers
A Most Spirited Turn of Play
Moving the Goalposts
Nil-Nil
Not Only Pascal’s Wager
Random Numbers
The Rhythm of Life
Salvation United
Season’s End
The Slow Comedown
Sports Lawns
Sudden Death
We’re Crap, And We Know We Are
When Saturday Came
Worth the Weight ?
You Bet Your Life
Poems about Suburbia:
All Aboard !
All the Best Tunes
Any Colour You Like, as Long as it’s Charcoal
April Smarts
Auto-Desire
Autumn Layers
Batteries
Breezeblock & Plasterboard
Ba-Bump in the Night
Brolly Dolly
Brownfield
Butterfly Bushwhacked
Cherry-Picking
Christmas Bells
Crimbo in Limbo
Cucumber Time
Dedication to her Art
Downpour
Endless Rolling Fields
Every Sunday
The 1st Day of Autumn
Five Strangers Among Us
Foxing Day
Garden Overspills
Groves & Thickets
Hairshirts
Hairy Limes
The Haunted Schoolyard
Hide
Hipster Moi
Inbetween-Rain
The Last Post
Leftover Sprouts
Lonely Gamut
Look to your Lesser Linen
The Long Game
My Toe Bleeds, Betty
Night Atmos
Night of the Restful Dead
Nonsense Avenue
The Only Lefty in Poundbury
Pocket Forecourts
Pollarding
Purple in May
Roundabout Roundel
The Second Week of January
So Much Ink
Summer Block
The Thick in the Air
Urban Selection
Whatever the Sconces, they all take the same Candles
Where the Hounds Lie Low
Wild Barley
Poems about Travel:
All Roads Lead to Roam
Appointments in Samarra
At the Sign of ‘The Manger’
The Bootymen’s Air
Brass-Cornered Boxes
The Census of Quirinius
The Daphne Shanty
End of the Line
Following Yonder Star
The Gifts of the Magi
Go See the Elephant
Heathrow Terminal Ultima
Hello Aeronautic
How To Get Back Home From Outer Space #A – (arrival)
How to Get Back Home From Outer Space #B – (orientation)
How to Get Back Home From Outer Space #C – (phrasebook)
How to Get Back Home From Outer Space #D – (the locals)
How to Get Back Home From Outer Space #E – (the sights)
How to Get Back Home From Outer Space #F – (night life)
How to Get Back Home From Outer Space #G – (moving on)
How to Get Back Home From Outer Space #H – (transport)
How to Get Back Home From Outer Space #I – (overload)
How to Get Back Home From Outer Space #J – (the long haul)
How to Get Back Home From Outer Space #K – (taking time out)
How to Get Back Home From Outer Space #L – (postcards home)
How to Get Back Home From Outer Space #M – (expedition)
How to Get Back Home From Outer Space #N – (departure)
Love is Science Fiction
Manifest Destiny
The Merchantman Shanty
Mrs Silver
My First Imperial Adventure
No News from Nowhere
One Small Step
Passport
Penwith Smith
Queen of the Silk Road
The Siren
The Sky’s the Limit
The Talk of far-off Forums
Taxing Travels
A Ticket to Timbuktoo
To Boldly & Beyond
Transatlantic Cable 1 – The Wake
Transatlantic Cable 2 – Emigrants’ Song
Trans-Galactic Relations
The Triumph of the Magi
Ultima Thule
Uncharted
Undone Town
A Walk Through the End of Days
We Choose to Go to the Moon & Do the Other Things
Wish I Were There
Poems about Work:
Administralia
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
April the 6th
Ascii 112
At the Sign of ‘The Manger’
Auto-Desire
Boozing in Company
Bureaucalypse
Careers Advice
Commuter Without Portfolio
The Deal
Déjà Fait
Disposable Income
Equality
Fingerfluffs
Flexi-Time
Flying the Flag
The Good Life
Graduation
The Gravity Pin
Harvest Song
Harvest Traffic
Human Resources
International Women’s Day
It’s Probably Important
January, January
Job-Locked
Journeyman Artist
Longhold Tenancy
Makeworking
The Merchantman Shanty
Middle-Class Decline
My Final Colleague
Nine-to-Forever
Office Shrub
One Size Fails All
PFO
Plough Monday
The Price of Knowledge
Purple Requiem
Qwerty Sonata
A Recipe for Iron Gall Ink
The Registrar
Rotting in the Wrong Job
Second-Hand Elegy
Stagehand Biog
Sudden Death
The Thread of his Verbosity
Transatlantic Cable 7 – The Businessmen
Transatlantic Cable 12 – The Telegraphists
The Travelcard Shuffle
Treasure Trove
Two Minutes Silence
Unbusyness
UBI
Underlings
Unravelled
Value-Added Tax
We Never Type Alone
What a Pointless Waste
Wish I Were There
Work is my Sunscreen
You Silent Bastards
Poems about Clothes & Appearance:
Poems about Food & Drink:
Poems about Modern Living:
Poems about School:
Poems about Sport, Games, & Dancing:
Poems about Suburbia:

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