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Just as an aside, I am cricketjeff because I know of seven different Jeff Greens and usually when I get to a website someone has beaten me to the gun, but Jeff is who I am!




When I was five I wanted to be a research chemist, I was one for over 20 years, if you have used an old fashioned incandescent lightbulb in the last 30 years or photographic film in the last 20 there is a very high probablity you have used some of my work. The same is also true if you have read a book in that time.
I was a chemist for over 20 years have been a sysadmin for about 14 years (those two overlap to some degree) a cricket fan for over 40 years and a dodgy poet for nearly as long. You can find some of my poems on www.nicewaistcoat.com but most I have written over the years got thrown away unread.

I haven't cluttered up my page until now, but Sue Cardwell wrote me an obituary, in response to one of my own poems, and gave me permission to use it here.


  A Happy Git

I for one am glad to have known
A poet named Jeff for I have grown
He's taught we ways to write my words
And how to rhyme with things like birds

A lovely man in waistcoats bright
His rhyming words are pure delight
He'll always be a friend so true
And cheer me up when I feel blue

Upon his gravestone should be writ
"Here lies our Jeff, a happy git"
Have a smile, don't shed a tear
He'll be back with more, I fear!

I am flattered!


I appear to have acquired a Scottish AP Sister. Mairi bheag She complains she starts dreaming in iambic pentameter if she writes sonnets, like that would be a bad thing?!?!?! Answer is simple, write in anapaests next day .

As I'm on the subject of favourites lets do a few of them, I don't get most of the AP Family idea, many many of you I would count as friends some close some new but to pick out a few.
Sue Cardwell who I have quoted above. A lady who has discovered just in time that she isn't a writer of cute rhyme but potentially a superb poet, you can write anything you choose, don't be frightened that you last piece was great and un-toppable you keep outdoing yourself so keep on doing it!
PassionsPromise, Tory, So versatile, so HOT, so passionate for love and for what is right. You'll either get a piece of erotica to leave you gasping, a harrowing account of the worst the world can throw or something so cleverly inventive that you can only sit back and applaud.
Dalaney, I don't like free verse, except WOW!!!! I think you were the first person to befriend me on AP, you allowed me to enter a rhyme in a free verse contest and said you loved it. It was the first poem I wrote just for AP so you are probably hated by everyone here for encouraging me. Damn girl! What can I say.
Amera, do I really need to tell anyone that Amera is the Queen here? She writes in every form known to man or elf, rhymes with perfection, well except she speaks in such a weird way she thinks that poem has one syllable! Her poetry was perfection when I joined and has improved day by day since.
LovelyLuminousLilly is a "new boy" who rhymes like she breathes. She could be better than anyone if she chose.
PerVirtuous Hmmm what to say of Allan that won't get me arrested? I don't agree with half of his ideas, and some of what he writes leaves me totally cold, but the rest? When he writes in the styles I "get" I find his work superb, and in any style he is worth anyone reading.
Riftkin, loves to play with poetry, loves to swap rhymes, sets amazing contests and is always a friend I can speak to. Show confidence girl write rhyme for real! You are good at it!!!
Tattboyspet Chantell, an enigma to me, really good friend, can't rhyme, writes erotic or horribly dark free verse and sets the weirdest and oddest contests on the site! I have a tendency to write some odd erotic pieces, she tells me where I have it wrong.
" jimmy20johns What to say? an arist. Who paints perfect views in words. His works of nature are too good to have been written by any mortal hand.

There are a lot of other poets I go to read, but that's the set of favourites for now. Poor people, what have they done to deserve me?

My Lists

Poems I'm focused on

  • The Tridents of the Tritons
    The tridents of the tritons make a phalanx you should fear
    And behind them ride the swordfish who can spit you like a spear
    35 lines, 16 comments, July 21. In Fantasy, mermaids
  • Only you and me
    The garden curled around us as we sat beneath the stars
    In the silver silver shine of Venus and the rust red glow of Mars
    31 lines, 43 comments, May 26. In Love
  • Changing
    There are some words that change the way I see
    I can't explain the way they make me feel
    18 lines, 19 comments, May 24. In Personal, Thoughts
  • Yearning
    The silver spears that shatter in the garden of my heart
    Play tattoos of painful pleasure on my skin
    15 lines, 20 comments, May 9. In Love
  • The moon pours white wine
    At a table in a garden on a soft sweet summer's night
    Two friends are sitting talking by the moon's reflected light
    15 lines, 244 comments, March 10. In Love
  • And talk all night of rhyme
    I want to sit and sip a drink
    And talk of poetry
    34 lines, 43 comments, March 9. In Love, Life, Thoughts
  • Just Because
    Why can't I have Tuesday
    It's only a day you know
    23 lines, 28 comments, February 19. In Personal, Sad, free verse, Angst
  • A river of words
    Every word that you write is the start of a river
    Tumbling and fumbling its way to the sea
    21 lines, 101 comments, February 1. In Thoughts, poetry, words, rhyme, lyric inspired
  • Thank-you
    My youngest child was gravely ill at six.
    By far the worst of times that I have known.
    18 lines, 19 comments, January 22. In Personal, Hope, Life, Love, sonnet
  • Why a waistcoat?
    I can never understand it.
    Some men go out half dressed.
    7 lines, 35 comments, August 23, 2007

Active Contests

My Poetry

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  • Taking work home
    34 lines, 1 comment, July 26. In Adult, Erotica, Love
  • Wouldn't it be funny
    Wouldn't it be funny if the sky was always pink
    And the flowers grew on trees and smelt of toast
    25 lines, 2 comments, July 26. In Thoughts, Weird
  • Questions
    Can we curl up in a chair and read a book,
    Take two straws and share a drink that's thick and pink,
    25 lines, 4 comments, July 26. In Love, Life, Thoughts
  • Borrowings
    You touched my heart in tender ways then slowly drifted by
    But you will be with me for evermore
    14 lines, 12 comments, July 26. In Love, Thoughts

My other items

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  • Column: The poems that we like at allpoetry
    We are running a large series of contests for rhyming poetry, since many of our entrants, and there have been a lot of entrants! Have queried their placement and the winners I thought I would write about the poetry that we like, and so what is likely to w

My wall

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  • imthinkingarbys on July 23
    U kind of look like Tom Hanks. I hope that doesn't offend u.
  • mafiagirl13 on July 16
    You are my new favorite poet!!! I LOVE your work. <3

    JADE RAYNE*
  • Count Orlok on July 13
    What is a sysadmin for God's sake? Something evil I hope? Perhaps a dead cricketer?
  • Sandygram : Stopping by to say hi and thank you for the nice comment. on July 1

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