Hello. Welcome to my blog and thank you for taking the time to take a look. Please have a read, leave a comment, link to my blog and request that I reciprocate.Publishers, literary agents, rich industrial magnates with children in need of entertainment: please feel free to give me a deal!
All poems on this blog are my own property and you’re welcome to use them (for non-commercial purposes) so long as you credit them to Paul Hughes. That’s me. One day I may acquire an exotic nom de plume. At the moment, however, dull old Paul will have to do.
If you do use them I’d really appreciate an email to tell me what for and how they went down with the audience. I’d just like to have an idea of what use and fun they have been to others.
Excellent!!!
I am soooo glad you have done this!
Finding this has made my week….
This is fab – I love it!
Looking forward to the day you make it as King!
I have sophisticated and foolproof plans underway. The day is coming soon Clare!
From a Queen to a King ;O) …
Wonderful stuff, my son is loving them. Keep up the good work.
xx
Wow – living the dream! Am most impressed my lovely! x
Me thinks you may need reminding that:
“Ogden Nash
acquired cash
From lesser muses
Than Mr Hughes’s”
Keep it up !!
My kind of poetry.
I love your work.
I thoroughly enjoyed your poetry and plan to use one in a lesson . Will try to feed back.
They are amusing and Ogden Nashesque in that they rhyme so well.
hiya Paul – Have really enjoyed reading these – have shown them to an English teacher – I think she is going to use some of them in her Yr 7 lesson next week! Will let you know what they think!!
x
Having read these and laughed out loud and thoroughly enjoyed them all, I am going to use some of them in my KS2 literacy as we’re doing poetry next week. I’ll let you know how they get on
Thanks ever so for sharing!
Love the poems, I think the parrot one is my favourite. Am going to read them to my Year 1 class whenever we’ve got a few spare minutes. Will suggest them to the Year 6 teachers too as their children will be able to understand them even better.
Well done, these are ace!
Jodie x
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!
Well, I hope you do become king because that would be an interesting day for us all.
I think we should study your poems at gcse level. We would all pass then because we would get the true meaning from the author himself.
You better become famous, you deserve it. That would be my claim to fame xD
Much adoration!
i have to say my dear friend…i have always loved reading your poems…they are all so very good…and i am happy to see others see how good they are as well..i am so glad you shared them with me …thankyou…a friend forever!
Thoroughly enjoyed reading your excellent, quirky poems Paul. I look forward to buying the book one day!
Hi Paul,
Have just left a message on WN talkback re illustrations, but thought would write here in case you don’t get it there !
Great poems, by the way.
Email me – address on my website if it doesn’t show here.
Brenda (Lexia)
I am going to have a poetry competition with my tutor group and show them this site to inspire them!! xxx
We are using your poem with a unit on sharks. Thanks for making our lives easier and more enjoyable.
You’re welcome! I hope the kids like it.
Thanks
Paul
I love your poetry,it’s fun,its fresh,it’s vibrant. I have linked you on my blog. Keep up the good work,it’s very inspiring
Hi Paul, just discovered your website with your poems. I love them!
Paul,
Love your poems. I sing and play guitar with my grandchildren quite a bit and would like to try to put some of your verse to music if you do not object. I’m always looking for new material to amuse the kids.
Drew
Hello. Yes, that’d be great. Any chance of a copy? I could post it up next to the poem itself.
This is a really good read for me, Must admit that you are one of the best bloggers I ever saw.Thanks for posting this.
I plan to start a blog about working with kids as a pediatric nurse practitioner in health care USA. The first blog is called Snot. I would like to use your poem. I think it is just wonderful.
Hello Grace. Go ahead, that would be great. You mean the poem about the boy who picked out his brain? That’s a very old one. I’m glad you like it.
Best wishes
Paul
Nothing dull about Paul!
It’s nice of you to say so, but I think it’s a terribly bland name. Besides, with a Catholic background I ought to be Peter…
My 10 year old cat loving daughter is having a birthday party in two weeks. She also wants to be an astronomer. We joked about what kind of birthday party she could have, and we came up with “Cats in Space”. So here I am surfing the net and for kicks and giggles I googled Cats in Space and look what I came up with! Your wonderful Space Cat poem. I’d like to put it on the party invitations, crediting you of course! Thank you for a lovely peom.
Ah, that’s nice to hear. Thanks very much. I hope your daughter and all the other guests like it. It’d be better if you separated it into stanzas (verses) of four lines each. I should have changed it myself. I’ll go and do it now. Thanks again, Paul
Great work, Paul. You’ve inspired me to start my own children’s poetry blog. Check it out if you have a chance. If you like it, I’d appreciate a link.
http://hedoz.blogspot.com/
Hello there Huw. I’ve just taken a quick look. It hangs together nicely, your verse. It has a good meter and the rhyme isn’t forced. Nice stuff! I’ll put you in the links now. Best wishes!
My son keeps forgetting to log out of his Facebook account when he’s on my computer. I posted the first few stanzas of one of your poems and a link to “The demise of Jimmy Price” on his page. There’s something about death by booger-mining that ought to appeal to his 13 y/o friends.
If it doesn’t appeal then it can at least serve as a warning. Too many people think this poem is just light-hearted fun. Make no mistake, booger mining kills!
Really appreciate the Lichen poem. Do you know the ecology of this unique species? Please can you write about Ramalinas, the fruticose bushy lichens. Thank you
Hello there. I’m sorry for the late reply. Well, I found it hard enough writing anything about lichen at all. I like the stuff but it doesn’t inspire me to poetry very often. Are there any other poems on this topic?