
Even a rationalist needs to pretend sometimes, and this is where I do mine. It’s also a convenient place to put my poems of general nonsense, and those that don’t do much except talk about an intense child.
Poems about the Bible:
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
At the Sign of ‘The Manger’
Balaam’s Asses
Be Fruitful, and Multiply
The Book of Numbers
Carol of the Thousands
The Census of Quirinius
Circa Circumference
Cruci-Fiction
Custodia Golgothae
Damnatio ad Bestias
Following Yonder Star
From Eden to Creation
Genesis – Chapter 1, Version 2
The Gifts of the Magi
Good News in the Silence of Josephus
He that hath the Key of David
Holy Innocents
The Holy Grail
In the Year of the Lord
Judas Trees
Lesson
A Locked-Tomb Mystery
The Meeting of Samson and Hercules
Naming the Serpents
No Rest for the Blessèd
Novotel Warrior
Saurosaurus
Seven Seven
Sons of Milka
Taxing Travels
Teenage Timbrels
These are the Beasts upon the Earth
Thou Shalt Not Gender with a Diverse Kind
Tillers of the Ground
The Triumph of the Magi
The True Cross
Virgin Birth
Waiting for the Adoration
The Waters of the Flood were upon the Earth
Why did those Feet…?
The Witherness of the Fig-Tree
Witnesses
The Words Become Flesh
Poems about the Devil and the Supernatural:
All Hallows Day
The Anointed
Appointments in Samarra
Armageddon Hedonism
Away in Gahenna
The Ball-&-Socket Ball
Bless You, Dammit !
The Bootymen’s Air
Cusp & Foil
The Devil May Care
Diabolical Appropriation
Drothful Lucubration
The Elusive Mister Morningstar
God Bless You !
Guising
Hippocalypse
Hollow-een
The Hottest Place in Town
Infernal Inferno
Iris to Iris, Pupil to Pupil
Jacks-of-the-Green
Kosher Slaughter
Lonely Cross
Masquerageous
Middle-Class Voodoo
Mistress Blacklock
The Morningstar
Night Atmos
No Rest for the Blessèd
Pareidolia
Peggy Picas
Plastic Horns
The Price of Sharps
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
Purenoia
Rapture Deferred
The Siren
Sleight of Heart
So Says Sam Hain
Thank-You and Goodnight
Thrice-Summoned
A Walk Through the End of Dayst
When the Curtain Never Falls
Poems about Fantastic Animals:
Adderbolts
Adders & Ladders
Asterichthys
Attacat
Barons of the Jungle
A Bout with a Spout
Dino-Golf
Dürer’s-Rhino Syndrome
The Elephants of War
Exit the Dragon
Guttersprites
Jurassic Lark
The Kine
The Mousecatchers’ Ball
Naming the Serpents
Ravencross
Rhinos in Name Only
Roofkeepers
The Rose & The Nightingale
Skritch Skritch
Stonewyrms
Uncharted
Where be Dragons ?
Poems about Fantastic Worlds:
All Roads Lead to Roam
The Ballad of Evermore
The Crocks
The Daphne Shanty
De-rigging the Deck
Dino-Golf
Dressed in the Raiments of Emperors
End of the Line
Fall Back
A Hat that Lets the Rain in
He that hath the Key of David
Heathrow Terminal Ultima
Hello Aeronautic
The Layman of Shalott
Liminal Valley
Mayday, Mayday !
My First Imperial Adventure
My Leaping Friend
No Month for an Atheist
No News from Nowhere
Nosedrip Headtrip
Passport
Penwith Smith
Pierglass
Prog Log
Puzzle-Passageways
REM-Blind
Salad Days
So Much Ink
The Solstice Carol
Swarm Over Hamelin
Talk Like a Pirate
The Talk of far-off Forums
Tick-Tock, Writer’s Block
A Ticket to Timbuktoo
To Ev’ry Dream I Ever Dreamt
Ultima Thule
Uncharted
Undone Town
Poems about Gods:
Abiblos
The Advent Carol
Anti-Venom
Armageddon Headonism
The Charon Line
Cold Aquaintance
Con Spiracy
Corona Borealis
Daedalus to Icarus
Drowning in the Jordan
Duality
Easter Rising
Existential Differential
The Extra Guest
The First Second-Coming
For England & St George
For Man was Made in the Image of God
From the First Notes of Dawn till the Last Chords of Dusk
Gods’ Breath
Heavy
Helios
Humbug in Excelsus
I’m Making a List, I’m Checking it Twice
In the Arms of Morphea
Jesus on a Davidson
The Judgement of Parishes
Just Another Face in the Choir
The Meeting of Samson and Hercules
Mistlemass
The Name of the Wind
New Kid in Town
Nous Sommes Charlie
Omni-Sciessence
Pride & Vanity
Relic
The Right to Offend
Scallies
Seismic Sirens
Seventh Day
That I Might Know the Proof of You
Three-Line Poem
Trinity Cubed
Unamused
The Waters of the Flood were upon the Earth
We Need More Gods
Without a Prayer
Poems about Intense Young Things:
Aerialatrix
All Aboard !
All Roads Lead to Roam
Angel & Demon
Arachnophilia
The Ballad of Miss Pickle
…but then again, too few to mention
Cecily Census
Dedication to her Art
Doves & Cockerels
Elevenses
Evolution Chant
The Extra Guest
Eye-Ee-Shah
Fiffle-Faffle
The First of Logos
From the First Notes of Dawn till the Last Chords of Dusk
Guardian Angelface
The Haunted Schoolyard
In Mind
Intwinned & Intwined
The Kine
Little Drummer Boy
Little Germany
A Little Lady of Letters
Little Miss Pinball
A Logbook of Wonders
Lullaby
Macaroni
Metres by the Foot
Mrs Silver
No Laughing Matter
Nominative Determinism
Not Telling
An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse
One Small Step
The Only Lefty in Poundbury
Ovine Inspiration
Power-to-Weight Cogitatio
Purinoia
The Queen of the Cockles
Relic
Rockflower
Sluggabed
Swotto-Socks
Teenage Timbrels
Thrice-Summoned
Tinseltide
Twenty Seconds
Two Sheets to the Wind
Undreamt
The Vegetable Plot
A Wilful Child
Wimples & Dimples
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