Everyday Poems

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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:

The Deal

        Poems about Travel:

        Poems about Work:

The Deal

PFO

UBI