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The Fermi Paradox

May 31, 2026

poetry

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(Poem Copyright Daniel Macintyre 31/05/2026)
An Appeal To Mine Olde Employer (Revised Edition)

May 13, 2026

comedy, poetry

bizarre, comedy, eating, fat, funny, funnypoems, humorous, humour, Old-fashioned, oldeenglish, overweight, poem, poet, poetry, profound, weight, weightloss

(Author’s note: This poem, rendered in olde english for comic effect and for reasons best known to those concerned, was written for the encouragement and incentivising of my dear friend and employer to pursue a course of weight loss, for the purposes of his own well-being and good health… The author would like to own…
An Appeal To An Olde Lethal Driver

Apr 21, 2026

comedy, poetry

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An Appeal To An Olde Lethal Driver Note of dedication: To thou, whose style at ye olde wheel doth rupture the natural and proper containment of victuals, and doth render thy passengers agog with terror and greatly obsessed with the preservation of their lives, and who, through ye asinine wielding of thy death-dealing wheel, doth…
A Rebuke to the Borrower of Books

Apr 11, 2026

comedy, poetry

bizarre, comedy, humorous, humour, Old-fashioned, poem, Poems, poet, poetry

Authors Note: Have you ever lent someone your book, only to discover that they have moved your book mark? This happened to me, so I wrote a short poem by way of a stern rebuke… A Rebuke to the Borrower of Books What!? Thou art hath displaced mine markerFrom its rightful place betwixt pages seen…
Revised I

Feb 9, 2026

comedy, poetry

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An Appeal To Ye Olde Ersatz Rasputin

Feb 8, 2026

comedy, poetry

airy, beard, beards, bizarre, comedy, facial hair, hairy, humorous, humour, old english, Old-fashioned, poem, poet, poetry

(This poem can be considered a sequel to my earlier work: An Appeal To Ye Olde Employer) Note Of Dedication: To thou, whose beard doth traileth low and doth greatly render thee akin to the wild beasts of the earth and the most ancient horrors of folklore; and who, through the grosseth surge of hairy…
Life Was All Poetry…

Dec 10, 2025

poetry

dark, dark poems, dark poetry, Old-fashioned, poem, poetry, profound, reflective, sad, sad poems

(Copyright Daniel Macintyre 02/12/2025)
Hugo’s Ego: The Second

Dec 3, 2025

comedy, short-story

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Hugo’s Ego: The Second Hugo Werther. A man of large learning. And a man curiously given over to his vanities and conceit, these negative qualities so oddly filtered through his eccentric nature, as to render his actions and life most worthy of account on these pages… Let us, then, peruse the life of this strange…
Glorious Men, Inglorious Death

Oct 19, 2025

poetry

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The battle has begun, and the rage is strong Men swear and struggle and deny all love. The air is thick, smoky and vile, With a stench of blood and a world gone wrong… No man whispers, all is loud and fierce Hatred pronounced and a thirst for death. The guns declare that all…
Teacher Is So Boring…

Sep 9, 2025

comedy, poetry

bizarre, Boredom, comedy, humorous, humour, Old-fashioned, poetry, School, Schoolchildren, Teachers, Toilet humour

Teacher is so boring My boredom is a pain… I picked my nose so hard My finger drove me insane… Teacher is so boring… But that’s not my only pain: I thought it ’twas a bogey- But in fact it ’twas my brain… (©️ Daniel Macintyre 09/09/2025 protectmywork.com)