Thoughts about my poems

I thought it would be an idea to explain certain things about some of my poems, or to help people to adapt them slightly if they wish to use them for non profit making purposes.

Birthday and special occassion cards

These were written originally with a specific person in mind and I have adapted them for a more general audience in order to publish them on my site. In some cases the wording could be altered again slightly to make them more personal. For example, a card that has the line happy birthday to you, could be substituted with any 2 syllable name to read, for eg happy birthday Simon. For names with a different number of syllables then the rest of the wording in that line might be able to be altered slightly for example for a 1 syllable name it may be possible to remove a one syllable filler word. If anyone would like any help regarding this I am quite happy to make suggestions if you contact me.

Order of posts problem

There are a few limitations in using a blog site as opposed to a web site – which I woud not be competent to update, whereas I can update a blog site myself. One of the limitations is that posts cannot be shown in chronological order. A newer more recent post is always at the top of the page. This does not matter to me in some cases, but in other cases, such as in the Mrs Posh Chronicles, the poems are best read in chronological order. In order to achieve this, I have therefore had to delete all posts and repost them all in the correct order. This is not really too much of a problem, more of an irritation. However it does mean that the dates of posts will not probably correspond with the date of creation of the poem. I therefore just thought that I would mention this in case anyone happens to wonder why this is.

I have been trying to veer away a bit from the Rupert Bear style of verse and I am quite happy with the results of some of them. I have done a parody of the poem by Jenny Joseph “Warning” which is one of my favourite poems. I am quite happy with the result, but is of course not where near as good as the original. I cannot manage to write a decent poem without making it rhyme so it is not really quite in the same style. But the idea comes from that poem and hopefully some may find it funny. It is not based particularly on myself either. Although some aspects of the thought patterns are of course my own.

I am becoming quite fond of my character Mrs Posh from the “Mrs Posh Chronicles”. Although I didn’t initially intend them to be a rhyming farce it seems that this is what they have become. Also the theme of the red heart shaped underwear has naturally followed through all of the poems which I hadn’t envisaged at the start. I often have not idea at the time of writing a poem, which direction it will head in and how it will end. So it is often as much of a surprise to me as to others.

The New Kiddie Friendly Category

I have created this category to help with parents of younger children to more easily find poems on my site which may be suitable for them to read. This does not mean that the poems are particularly aimed at children, but means that I have read them and decided that in my judgement they are suitable to be read by younger children. There may well be other poems on the site that parents may also consider suitable in their opinion. There may well also be other poems on the site that are suitable for older children, but perhaps not younger children. The creation of this category is merely to help people specifically looking for poems for younger children, who haven’t the time to search the whole site. I have not included any of the silly poems or the birthday or special occassion poems in this category, but some of the birthday poems are aimed at children.

“There’s Rubbish in our Brook, Dear Councillors” – Is based on an incident relayed to me by some friends. The fly tipped rubbish is apparantly still in the brook, leaving it prone to flooding amongst other things and the issue has still not been resolved at this point in time.

Removal of some poems

I am taking note of the voting results and in the cases where one or two poems have received a very negative voting result I have decided to remove the poems.  A case in point is the removal of “Silly Hiking Poem 1″ which a lot of people seem to dislike.  In my defence this was not meant to be a true poem, more of a nonsense thing  a bit like a limerick.  Also ironically the poem is based on truth as that particular incident did happen to me when we were out walking one day, except that I did not jump into a stream. We did laugh about it afterwards though. But I guess not everyone has the same sense of humour.  However thank you for your votes and please continue to vote.