Language and names have always fascinated me. Go on, try a couple…they might not be as dry as you fear…
Poems about Grammar:
Aardvaarks
Apoplexigraphy
Book-Nosed Lukas
Capital Notion
Catphrases
Cattle Prattle
Drop the Tittles
Each Word is a Species
Fewer & Less
The First Emoji
For ‘Whom’, the Bell Tolls
Future Habitual
Ghoti
Glottal Stop
(G)nus
Grammar Schooling
Grammers & Spammers
Hogwash
Homonym
How Now, Tao Dao ?
Hybrid Vigour
In the Nash’nal Int’rest
Jealousy & Envy
Just-So Grammar
The Lack of the Circumfrex in the British Îles
Latin Plurals
Loopiter
Mockingbirds
Momma Tongue
Mongeese
Oversexed
Pissing on the Pedants
Propersome Grammar
Punctilagogaloquociatude
A Qroq of Qraiq
Second-Hand Words
Shelf-Life
Shipshape
Stoking the Peeves
Stowaways
Toxic
Unparalleled Revival
Was, Not-Was
West Country R.P.
What ? Dang ?
Whenceforth
Who’da Thunk It ?
Poems about Language in General:
The Bard & I
Belgian Lessons
Berlingo
The Curse of the Couplets
Epeira
Flimsy were the Borogroves
Flinders
Frontispiece
A Masculine Rhyme
I Believe in ‘Yesterday’
Insults are Written by the Winners
Journeyman
Lingua Inglese
Linguistic Schtick
Lousy with Names
Maximum Maxims
Mic Check
Mongers
Monotongue
Neater by the Dozen
Omniphonics
One-and-a-Half
Ping-Pong
A pyrrhic gift (3)
RAS Syndrome
Shipshape
Sonic Screwdriver
Trees in Threes
War of Words
Poems about other Languages:
Aardvaarks
Across the Multi-Verse
Appellation Celebration
Belgian Lessons
Berlingo
The Boston Stomp
Eurovision Song
Farewell, Athelstan
Flinders
Handle for a Han Girl
Hogwash
How Now, Tao Dao ?
In Kateable Hands
The Lack of the Circumfrex in the British Îles
Insults are Written by the Winners
It’s all Greek to me
Lingua Inglese
Monotongue
Nomen-Couture
Omniphonics
Oversexed
Rock Pocks
Scharfes Ess
Second-Hand Words
Sonic Screwdriver
These are the Beasts upon the Earth
Unter den Linden
Verses in Hades
Poems about Names:
All Life Is Here
Always Known As
Appellation Celebration
Beyond Uranus
Boötes
The Boston Stomp
Don’t be a Steve
Dropping Aitches
Eye-Ee-Shah
Farewell, Athelstan
Font-Fodder
A Glut of Collective Nouns
Gods’ Breath
Handle for a Han Girl
Hannah Without the Haitches
In Kateable Hands
It’s all Greek to Me
Jellyfishes
Just Another Joe
The Land of the Saints
Little Germany
Manifest Destiny
The Marks of our Being
Miss-World
Monikers
Mr & Ms
The Name Not Taken
The Name of the Wind
Next-Gen
No-Nonsense Names
No Sinjun
Nom de Guerre
Nom de l’Union
Nomen-Couture
Nominative Determinism
Normanisation
Personal Names
Rock Pocks
A Rose by Any Other Name but This
Smiths & Jonses
Sons of Milka
Sorry, Elizabeth
A Surge of Surnames Serving as Starters
Tartan Tarts
Tilly in Potentia
Twins I Have Known
Vanity
Poems about Places:
All Chalk, No Cheese
The Boston Stomp
Cattle Prattle
The Cester Slur
End of the Line
Et In Orcadia, Ego
Gillingas
Gods’ Breath
Hannah Without the Haitches
It’s All Good Stuff
The Land of the Saints
London Pebble
Musings on the Nature of Hadrian’s Wall
The Name of the Wind
Naymington-on-Poynte
RKO
Sluff
Snowfall in London
Sorry, Elizabeth
Undone Town
Unter den Linden
Poems about Poetry:
Across the Multi-Verse
Alphabet Soup
Calling All Stations
Circle Lines
The Click
Convergent Resonance
The Curse of the Couplets
Deep & Meaningless
Dry Rot
Epistophile
Epitaph
Et Ego in Ego
Eyebrow Stroking
First Eight Lines of a Sonnet
The First Emoji
Footnote
Foreword & Forewarned
Fractured Metre
Graduation Poem
Hashtag You’re It
Heroic Verse
How to Recite Right
Index of First Lines
Ivory Garrets
The Last Poem I’ll Ever Write
Lost Quotations
Lurkers
Metres by the Foot
Middle-Class Decline
My Mind, She Runs
narrative conflict
Nashtiche
Necessary Narcissism
Night Shift
No Biography
Oh, this again…
The Old Poet to the Young
Oriental Droppings
Overwrought & Undercooked
Part-Time Poet
Poesy Posers
The Poet’s Almagnac
Poet’s Corny
Poetic Truth
The Poetry Competition of my Dreams
Poetry No Thanks
Proem to a Poem
Scanning the Last Word of Lines
Set My Verses Free !
Sex & Death
The Shape of the Pear
Soap Bubbles
Some Things Are Beyond Rhyming
The Spoils of Verse
State of the Art
Tell Me Four Times
Terminator Traitor
Through a Dark Glassly
Transient Verses
Tuneless
Uncoupled
Unfinished
Unvolted
Vanity by Numbers
The Verse That Goes Like This
Verses in Hades
Versificator Regis
The Voice Speaks
Writers’ Block, Writers’ Block
You Know What I Mean ?
Z for Zen
Rhyming Couplets 