One may judge poems and poetry in many different ways. To me, memorable poems that float into one's mind and continue to do so over the years, decades even, occupy a special place in my heart as well. Rudyard Kipling's IF poem is one of those. I often quote parts of it to myself and others; so I'm going to put IF here to find it again when the moment comes and you need to wonder if you can keep your head ...

A powerful love poem - The King and Queen as metaphor for two lovers and/or husband and wife.

Inspirational poem, rhyming poem - it came about quite spontaneously whilst writing the 1,000th post to the VIP forum today, April 15th, 2010.

Hence ...

A thousand roads I've travelled ...

Now everyone nose  that for a magic spell to work, it has to be like a poem, with rhythm, and of course, it has to rhyme. But oh! Making a poem that rhymes is sooo difficult!!!

Take heart, my witchy friend! Here is an easy peasy lemon squeezy simple little poem and poetry exercise in rhythm and rhyme that will help you rhyme with the best in no time at all.

A fantasy fiction poem - a rhyming poem, even! - that tells a story of something that happened a long time ago, in a village by the sea when a mysterious stranger came to the shore ...

It came to my attention that I'd lost the colour red ...

This is bit of fun which came about as I went to a poetry forum which had a section for "wool gathering and strange ideas" - but there wasn't a single entry! How disappointing! I wanted to remedy the situation and make a post. At first I thought I might post about the ultraviolet beings but then instead, wrote this especially ... ..