Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Tit For Tat
It's Tit for Tat, you big fat rat,Why don't you run away.My back is up, you have spat at me,go find someone else to play.Why should I run, and let..
© Sylvia Spencer
Calories
When I go to the baker,to buy a loaf of bread.I must think about what to buy,before I lose my head.I really want to spoil myself,and buy a cream..
© Sylvia Spencer
The Village Well
Can you keep a secret,and promise not to tell.That is what the people said,about the village well.Their well had held a secret,for the past one..
© Sylvia Spencer
The Riddle Of The Cockney Sparrow
Do you want to read this dittyabout a girl who came from,the city.Her name doesn't really matter,because it's only,a load of old chatter.The girls..
© Sylvia Spencer
My Award Winning Garden
Let me show you a garden,that is full of dreams,dug in the right placesthen sewn at the seams.There are lots of flowers,to give her grace,and as many..
© Sylvia Spencer
Great Grannies Cottage
Off we go to Grannies Cottageto look at boring photograpth footage.Black and white snaps, when Dadwas a kid, playing knights in armourwith a dustbin..
© Sylvia Spencer
Handy Man
If you have a problem, then come and see me.I might be able to solve it for a small fee.If you need a plumber, then I'm your man,you'll be better..
© Sylvia Spencer
An Underwater Love Affair
Beneath the fathoms, of salty waves,is a world of splendour and under water caves.Rainbow coloured coral, that's sharp to touch,set in under water..
© Sylvia Spencer
Larry Had A Hat
Larry wore a top hat, that was as tall as tall could be.Now when larry wore this hat, he was mistaken for a tree.Now Larry held a secret, within this..
© Sylvia Spencer
Beware Of The Stars
Beware of the stars, why because they come out at nightbut so does the moon with his light so bright.The midnight sky it is a sight to be seen, but..
© Sylvia Spencer
A Story In Print
Out on sale at the crack of dawn, then I am chucked insomeone's yard or on the front lawn.Yes I am the newspaper the one with the headline newsbut..
© Sylvia Spencer
A Crafty Babe
Mummy loved me once and held me to her breastIt was soft and warm as my tiny head buried itselfinto her vest. Her nipple was soft and her milk..
© Sylvia Spencer
A Brave Canary
He sat on the mat all bright eyed and bushy tailedbut the other half of him was sad because he had failed.He failed to do what he was surposed to do..
© Sylvia Spencer
A House Called Lonely, (Part 2) The Sequel
Dark mountains flash in front of my eyes as mostof the blue disappears from the sky's.Then winter burrows itself into my brain as the dismalcold days..
© Sylvia Spencer
A Christmas Cracker (One Night Only)
There is no home and the night is long, the body is weakbut the mind is strong. The weathers cold and theground is damp. no pennies in their pockets..
© Sylvia Spencer
A House For Sale
The cold blows in through the back doorthe boards creak as I walk across the floorThe windows are dusty and the walls have cracksand the passage has..
© Sylvia Spencer
A Ballad Of A Virgin Man
There was once a man who wasa good old sort but he was very nosyand he knew too much, more than heought. He lived in this world until he wasa grand..
© Sylvia Spencer
An Open Book
Sadness, sickness and family glory.This is our live's a never ending storyUp's and downs trials and error'stied up with pain, stress and..
© Sylvia Spencer
Discover The Universe In Words
The sun is a planet too hot to survive.A ball of fire that will burn you alive.Mercury the heavenly body, that orbits the sun.It's the smallest..
© Sylvia Spencer
Echoes Of Love
love can mean enchantment,roses youth and song,but what happens when the petals falland everything goes wrong.Promises of love may take you by..
© Sylvia Spencer
A Pawn
Why did you take my life by storm, wrap me up in ribbonsthen use me as a pawn. Twice you were there and twice youwent away, both times it was my life..
© Sylvia Spencer
A Little Poem Of Wisdom Part 1
Carry your'e feelings into a world unknownlet them be strong so you can find seedsthat are unknown. take destiny to where it wantsto go; but don't..
© Sylvia Spencer
London City 1850 Inspired By Duncan Wyllie
I was over come with inspiration from a poet on line.All at once the years that I lived started to decline.I was placed in a world of poverty and..
© Sylvia Spencer
Tears
little drops that fall from the eyesthey come in showers, when one cries.It's not all sorrow that brings on tears.Oh how life sheds them over the..
© Sylvia Spencer
Rosie Rosie
Rosie Rosie, sweet little Rosie,sitting in the cornerlooking far from cosy.No ribbon in her hair,no shoe's upon her feet.How on earth,does she walk..
© Sylvia Spencer