A sonnet describing one of Hercules’ labours The fifth task called for Herculean grit, A chore, some say, were better left unsung The...

A extract from a novel in which a famous author slips in his or her own self portrait. “Estella, take him down. Let him have something to...

A review on Tripadvisor that has been spiced up with a number of misprints With the spread of coronaryvirus, restricted air fights,...

A four-line epitaph for a well-known person For rallying all Did Raleigh fall! He lost his head And now is dead.

A poem entitled: The Night Before Brexit ’Twas the night before Brexit and, plagued with a stoop, Old Boris, though ninety, was all...

A Woeful Ballad to his Mistresses Eyebrows ‘Why gaze thee not into mine eyes,’ Asked she, ‘but on some point above?’ ‘In truth,’ said I,...

A Clerihew on any date in the calendar Adolf Hitler Fought Churchill who was, by an inch or so, littler. But Hitler, in 1945, was...

A poem about Thomas Cook I’ve travelled much, at first to serve the Lord Delivering Baptist pamphlets close to home, Then venturing...

A short story whose last line is ‘I can’t get that monster out of my mind’ One day a posh Roller turns up at my service station on Bodmin...

A famous political speech recast as a sonnet For several hundred times in Cabinet We met, and oft I went the extra mile Attempting,...

A fable for the 21st century complete with moral A knot of toads in league amassed Upon the cliff top’s brink, With fire behind...

A William Topaz McGonagall poetic response to Magaluf Of sunshine Scotland doth not have enough so some say And would prefer for to go to...

A version of the hokey-cokey filtered through the pen of a well-known writer Nothing is so dear and deft as dance — When, in a ring, folk...

A sonnet with the following end-rhymes No milksop this, the Tories’ favourite son Who, though his faux pas land him in the mire, He, like...

A poem with a twist at the end I’m honoured as a lifelong friend to praise the bridegroom, Ben, And tell the bride I know her man will...

A fragment of commentary on the 2019 Women’s World Cup delivered by a figure from the world of fact or fiction Thank havens there are...

A poem about an imaginary hybrid from two existing animals A cormorant and a May bug met And, wondering if they should beget, They...

A villanelle about the coming of Spring A green haze hints that spring might soon appear, The trees come into leaf, unhurried, slow, Like...

A toe-curling bad analogy After bursting into tears her weeping subsided like the slow trickle in a recently flushed cistern

A Haikick (a hybrid form incorporating the haiku and limerick) William Spooner Would certainly not admire MPs all at war And, cocked to...