Rydia

A Quest You Almost Completed Remember hiding under your bed and finding yourself; the yoyo that skirted out of your hand; a pound the tooth fairy left after you stopped ...

Hercules: The Age of Heroes They write no headlines when you're old; Pan is dead. Megora menopausing, but nobody cares where the old heroes go. I might save a damsel ...

A Hero's Day Off I knew the moment I woke up. It was time for a break. Before I scratched my balls or smoked my cigarette or watered the flowers ...

Pisces/ Sign on the Line I???ve always followed the signs and they???ve never led me wrong, though the sign-post is often obscured by scribbles and scrawls of teenage vandals. I ...

Beneath the Lighthouse you will make your fear deep beneath the lighthouse and he knows through the dark you are but lost in the push of the waves ...

A nonsensical ballad about a group of pirates who spend years frozen at sea and eventually wash up on the shore of the modern world.

An acrostic poem crafted using a pattern of rules. Credit to Cadi and Lava for inspiration.

A villanelle from my Sirens in Suburbia portfolio, based on the myth of Echo and Narcissus.

Trigger warning: death.

A bitter persona laments being sacked unfairly for being 'too old'.

I'm looking for feedback on a few of my NaPo poems; expect rough edges.

A cute little nonsense poem :)

A villanelle :)

A wintry poem inspired by the current season.

Someone once said to me 'Yes, but, you never get poems about cool things like zombies, do you?' Well now you do.

Sculpted around a writing summons to omit 'e' from its form.

A climbing rhyme poem I may read at my sister's wedding.