Humorous readings for social parties – Maistly Scotch 1882
Esme, deciding she needed a small treat went a wandering along the shores of the Bay of E, and came across …
Category Archives: Remarkable Verse and Prose From Earth Inhabitants.
Hollowed out and scurrilous
I came across the following poem the other day and was struck by how tight the composition is. Love as a vexatious …
Pegs.
Children growing up in the UK during the seventies were oft exposed to the following poetry and its ilk. I …
John Fuller – 1937
A few chosen bits pilfered from his ‘Valentine‘. I like your cheeks, I like your nose, I like the way …
Simply Sensational Cynthia
Cynthia Jobin. A fine poet and truly lovely lady who wrote here on WordPress passed away during December, and I …
As She is Spoke
In 1855 a Portuguese chap named Senhor Pedro Carolino took it upon himself to write a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book …
Bad Bear’s Knicketies Were Terrible Tore
Twice Times – – Alan Alexander Milne There were Two Little Bears who lived in a Wood, And one of …
My Monstrous Madness.
I read this some time ago and kept the link, knowing I’d want to re-blog it some day, and here …
Trumpet Solo of ‘Dedication’ Ensues.
Well now, a brand new follower, in his first communication with esme and the Cloud has written a poem for …
How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?
The Layers by Stanley Kunitz I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who …
Showtime!
Firstly, and most foremostly, ahead of all other thoughts and considerations, before any Johnny-come-lately or Jemima-come-hither subject tries to muscle …
Ribald Rhymes – Give me your anonymous limericks dear followers *winning smile* (35 present offerings! Open until the 13th)
Today we observe that stalwart within the world of poetry…The Limerick! Now, before I continue, I should point out that this …
At least in fiction with its diminutions.
Consolation by Wislawa Szymborska Darwin. They say he read novels to relax, But only certain kinds: nothing that ended unhappily. If …
Only the Future Knows.
Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell have offered up their latest novels to the future, for they shall only be read in one hundred …
Through The Moog Synthesizer of time
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti Long long I lay in the sands. Sounds of trains in the surf in subways of the …
Esmeralda and The Cloud 
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