Poems for people who don't like poetry

By Martin CM

I was one of those people who hated poetry. At a creative writing session I was the one
who dreaded it, and said, 'Oh God no, it's poetry this week.' Then I was the person who having written only three poems thought that the world needed to hear what I have to say.

Which shows a certain arrogance.

Or stupidity.
Or naivety.
Or all three.

(Probably all three.)

Clearly the world does not need to hear what I have to say.

So I started writing lots and lots of poems anyway.

Poems which were intended to make people smile, or better, laugh out loud. Poems that were meant to be an antidote to all the well-meaning, earnest, intense, political poems.

Poems that had very little hidden meaning and were meant to be performed.

This book is the result of some of that creative effort. Of months of standing up in pubs in the North West reading them out, to largely supportive audiences.

After reading them out I would usually go home and think: that wasn't right, it wasn't tight enough, it didn't flow right, it didn't land properly.

Then I would work on them, over and over again.

I would make them, I won't say better, but at least not so bad.

And, don't look for hidden meanings, don't look for hidden messages, or social commentary.

(There may be a bit of social commentary, but it's hardly hidden, it will slap you in the face when you get to it.)

Don't analyse them, just enjoy them.

And remember, they are not all true.
One of them is true, one is almost true, and one is a bit true but I won't tell you which is which.

Martin CM

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F4MZPZSK
• ISBN13: 9798313905976
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"