Everyday Poems – x

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For all those poems dealing with daily life, and to be honest all those which don’t fit anywhere else.

Contents

    Clothes & Appearance

    Food & Drink

    Modern Living

    School

    Sport, Games, & Dancing

    Suburbia

    Travel

    Work

    How I Got Home From Outer Space
     – And So Can You !

  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

    Anti-Atkins

    Belgian Lessons

    Bread Stick

    Broken Vessels

    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

    Kafé Wiënna

    Know your Onions

    Kosher Insecta

    Macaroni

    A Meal for One

    Ophelia’s Pharmacy

    Pans & Panic

    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

Ah-wub-duh-dree-furr

Bankrupt Holiday

Basecamp

Baubles

Before the Goose Gets Fat

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

Head up West and See the Lights

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

Many Snappy Returns

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

St 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

Surplus Keys

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 ?

When is Twelfth Night ?

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

Aces Low

Albion Away

Ante-Down

The Ball-&-Socket Ball

Basketball Bandits

Boring Boring Donkeys

Bunting in the Rain

Carcassong

Christmas Crackered

Clumsfulness

Dancing Gnats

De-rigging the Deck

Dadgad & Zimmerman

Dead Man’s Hand

Englischer Waltzer

Forever Second Place in a Beauty Contest

Football Widows

Grounds for Divorce

Hat Plus One

Home Kits

How To Get Back Home From Outer Space #H – (transport)

John Bull Jack

A Landrace of Snails

Football stadium scoreboard displaying 0-0 full time score with players and spectators

Loo-zers !  Loo-zers !

Mate in One

Million-Dollar Flippers

Miniatures

A Most Spirited Turn of Play

Moving the Goalposts

Nil-Nil

Not Only Pascal’s Wager

Patience

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

Who Gives a Toss ?

Worth the Weight ?

Written in Chalk

You Are The Hero !

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

    The Deal

    Dedication to her Art

    Downpour

    Endless Rolling Fields

    Every Sunday

    The First Day of Autumn

    Five Strangers Among Us

    Foxing Day

    Garden Overspills

    Groves & Thickets

    Hairshirts

    Hairy Limes

    The Haunted Schoolyard

    Hide

    Hipster Moi

    Hounslow Fast & Hounslow Slow

    Inbetween-Rain

    The Lantern Carol

    The Last Post

    Leftover Sprouts

    Lonely Gamut

    A Look Back at Front Rooms

    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

Albion Away

All Roads Lead to Roam

Appointments in Samarra

At the Sign of ‘The Manger’

The Blue Mosque

The Bootymen’s Air

Brass-Cornered Boxes

…But Then Again, Too Few To Mention

The Census of Quirinius

The Charon Line

The Daphne Shanty

End of the Line

Following Yonder Star

Free-Market Free-Fall

The Gifts of the Magi

Go See the Elephant

Hazardous & Dangerous & Greatest

Heathrow Terminal Ultima

Hello Aeronautic

How I Got Home From Outer Space – And So Can You !     See below for complete poems in the sequence

Love is Science Fiction

Manifest Destiny

The Merchantman Shanty

Moon-Trekkers

Mrs Silver

My First Imperial Adventure

No News from Nowhere

One Small Step

Passport

Penwith Smith

Queen of the Silk Road

The Siren

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

Tumbleweed

Ultima Thule

Uncharted

Undone Town

A Walk Through the End of Days

Wish I Were There

Wonderlust

        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

Bride seen from behind wearing a butterfly-embroidered wedding dress in a garden

Bridalflies

Bureaucalypse

Careers Advice

Christmas in the Desert

Chrysalis Cartographers

Commuter Without Portfolio

The Deal

Déjà Fait

Disposable Income

Equality

Fingerfluffs

First Day Back

Flexi-Time

Flying the Flag

The Good Life

Graduation

The Gravity Pin

Harvest Song

Harvest Traffic

The Horticultrix

Human Resources

In-Jokes & Out-Jokes

International Women’s Day

Inhumane Resources

It’s Probably Important

January, January

Job-Locked

Journeyman Artist

Longhold Tenancy

Makeworking

The Makings of an Artist

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

The Transatlantic Cable 7 – The Businessmen

The 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

How I Got Home From Outer Space – And So Can You !

#A  –  (arrival)

#B  –  (orientation)

#C  –  (phrasebook)

#D  –  (the locals)

#E  –  (the sights)

#F  –  (inventory)

#G  –  (night life)

#H  –  (currency)

#I  –  (moving-on)

#J  –  (transport)

#K  –  (overload)

#L  –  (the long haul)

#M  –  (taking time out)

#N  –  (postcards home)

#O  –  (expedition)

#P  –  (departure)