Welcome to WordSoup, where a piping hot bowl of poetic guff and waffley bollocks awaits to tickle your literary taste buds and probably leaves you with a slightly odd aftertaste culminating in excessive wind.
Whether you're a poetry aficionado (which is highly unlikely if you are still reading this) or a casual reader looking for a slice of poetic inspiration, this carefully cultivated collection has both something and nothing for everyone.
From thought-provoking pieces that delve into the complexities of politics and society to light-hearted verses that celebrate the quirks of the human body, poems cover a kaleidoscope of topics.
Prepare to be entertained, moved, and maybe even challenged as you explore the diverse landscape of human experiences through the lens of poetry a bunch of words whilst wondering how someone has such a level of self-confidence to not realise that they have written and published such shite.
Let WordSoup be your guide on a poetic journey like no other.
There is liberal use of profanity within quite a lot of these poems, if this isn’t your bag might be best to bugger off.
At WordSoup, we believe in the power of creativity and humour, we don’t always deliver it but we definitely believe in it.
We are a team of one general purpose idiot and a big hairy dog with a warped sense of humor, dedicated to providing decidedly average-quality content that entertains, mystifies, annoys and engages.
This semi-talented writer and creator can turn any great idea, spark of inspiration or muse into decidedly sub-par content with the poetic wizardry of dried plankton, wrapped in house brick subtlety that will leave reader scratching their head and searching for less embarrassing browser history.
We endeavour to infuse humour into our content, making it funny, entertaining, and shareable. Sometimes (more often than not) we miss these objectives and carry on regardless hoping that we drag ourselves out of the freshly excavated hole (the negative side of having a dog as editor).
We would like to leave our website visitors in stitches with our witty creations (no harm in being a dreamer), there is liberal use of profanity in some of the poems, which at times can be childish but also a great way to generate feeling especially when delivered live.
No matter how shite you think these poems are remember,
NOTE - When we say ‘we’ it generally means ‘I’ as the dog doesn’t really give a toss unless biscuits are involved.
We try, fail, try again, fail and then think fuck it who cares, we don’t, we do this for a bit of fun.
Was once called “funny and off-beat poet” in a review by the local BBC radio station, which was nice.
To counter that I was called potentially libellous and a bit risky by a publisher, which is sort of the point of doing stuff really, some would consider it a badge of honour.
Yes, this material has been performed in public on many occasions, often in pubs and clubs where the audience has had a few beers and frankly couldn’t care less about the format of the material but wants a good laugh.
This stuff has also been performed at events with a more serious poetry leaning and has had a mixed bag of comments ranging from “You swear a lot, not sure it is necessary” and “You could do with editing some a little more and work on technique” through to “Actually, thought it made a change to see something different” and “We can’t all be whimsical”
It’s nice to receive feedback irrespective of whether it is good or bad as it shows that someone has taken the time to listen or read your stuff, but to be honest I do this for fun, if I did it for a living my family would have starved to death years ago.
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