Category Archives: fun

The Wheelhouse Ballad

Posted on 10 January, 2014 by PoetJanstie

House concerts are the norm in North America; much less so in the UK. It was therefore a real find and a lovely surprise to be introduced to a place called The Wheelhouse a couple of years ago, whilst on the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Ballad, Folk, fun, Music, poem, poetry, Roots | 10 Comments

Eat Me

Posted on 30 October, 2011 by PoetJanstie

(for Rachel) I’m checking the time to discover if I’m still here in this world… or the next. I had a strange dream of a rather mad party, where everyone’s hearty, garishly dressed and no-one cares what the time really … Continue reading →

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Posted in Food, fun, Pleasure, poem, poetry | 7 Comments

Sixty

Posted on 13 June, 2011 by PoetJanstie

Imagine if you will one day in nineteen fifty one a babe was born, a girl, and a special life begun. When she was two, but why would anyone resist the apple of her doting father’s eye and her mother’s … Continue reading →

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Posted in age, anniversary, conservation, family, fun, green, Love, nature, poem, poetry, story | 7 Comments

Limerick Eight

Posted on 14 May, 2011 by PoetJanstie

(A tribute to Edward Lear) A man who loved to write verse was a neologist, notably terse to demonstrate that an owl and a cat did some things that were rather perverse © 2011 John Anstie (view the author’s commentary … Continue reading →

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Limerick Three

Posted on 14 April, 2011 by PoetJanstie

I have to come clean about me I’m really a charlatan, you see, full of intention with some good invention but nowt that’ll pay for my tea. © 2011 John Anstie

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Goons at The Graves

Posted on 3 April, 2011 by PoetJanstie

It’s eight o’clock and all is well for Peter, Spike and Harry. If they were at The Graves to tell the time, how long we’d tarry. © 2010 John Anstie (View the author’s commentary on this poem)

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Twitter Anniversary and World Poetry Day Twaiku

Posted on 21 March, 2011 by PoetJanstie

Tweet spring inception it is not going away but coming of age © 2011 John Anstie

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Limerick Two

Posted on 1 March, 2011 by PoetJanstie

A dashing romantic young student was advised that it would be quite prudent to avoid the infection by wearing protection that looks rather odd when you’re nudent. © 2011 John Anstie

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Stop It…

Posted on 9 February, 2011 by PoetJanstie

Stop it, stop it, don’t! Don’t, don’t, don’t, stop it, stop it! Don’t, stop it, don’t stop! (View the author’s commentary on this poem)

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Fridge Haiku

Posted on 11 January, 2011 by PoetJanstie

Refrigerator sadly stands without harvest but still there is life

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