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
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
The Meeting of Samson and Hercules
Naming the Serpents
No Rest for the Blessèd
Novotel Warrior
Seven Seven
Sons of Milka
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
Virgin Birth
Waiting for the Adoration
The Waters of the Flood were upon the Earth
Why did those Feet…?
Witnesses
Poems about the Devil and the Supernatural:
All Hallows Day
The Anointed
Appointments in Samarra
Armageddon Headonism
The Ball-&-Socket Ball
Bless You, Dammit !
The Devil May Care
Drothful Lucubration
The Elusive Mister Morningstar
God Bless You !
Hippocalypse
Hollow-een
Iris to Iris, Pupil to Pupil
Jacks-of-the-Green
Kosher Slaughter
Lonely Cross
Middle-Class Voodoo
Mistress Blacklock
Night Atmos
No Rest for the Blessèd
Peggy Picas
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
Purinoia
Rapture Deferred
The Siren
So Says Sam Hain
Thank-You and Goodnight
A Walk Through the End of Days
Poems about Fantastic Animals:
Adders & Ladders
Attacat
Barons of the Jungle
A Bout with a Spout
Dino-Golf
Exit the Dragon
Guttersprites
The Kine
The Miousecatchers’ Ball
Naming the Serpents
Jurassic Lark
Ravencross
Roofkeepers
The Rose & The Nightingale
Skritch Skritch
Where be Dragons ?
Poems about Fantastic Worlds:
The Ballad of Evermore
De-rigging the Deck
A Hat that Lets the Rain in
Heathrow Terminal Ultima
Hello Aeronautic
The Layman of Shalott
My First Imperial Adventure
My Leaping Friend
No Month for an Atheist
No News from Nowhere
Nosedrip Headtrip
Penwith Smith
Prog Log
REM-Blind
Shall-he Shanty
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
Undone Town
Wearing the Clothes of Emperors
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
I’m Making a List, I’m Checking it Twice
In the Arms of Morphea
Jesus on a Davidson
Just Another Face in the Choir
The Meeting of Samson and Hercules
Mistlemass
The Name of the Wind
Nous Sommes Charlie
Omni-Sciessence
Pride & Vanity
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 !
Arachnophilia
The Ballad of Miss Pickle
…but then again, too few to mention
Cecily Census
Doves & Cockerels
Elevenses
Evolution Chant
The Extra Guest
Eye-Ee-Shah
Fiffle-Faffle
The First of Logos
Guardian Angelface
The Haunted Schoolyard
In Mind
The Kine
Little Drummer Boy
Little Germany
A Little Lady of Letters
Little Miss Pinball
A Logbook of Wonders
Lullaby
Macaroni
Meters by the Foot
Not Telling
An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse
One Small Step
Ovine Inspiration
Power-to-Weight Cogitatio
Purinoia
Rockflower
Sluggabed
Swotto-Socks
Teenage Timbrels
Tinseltide
Twenty Seconds
A Wilful Child
Wimples & Dimples
Rhyming Couplets 