Lee Leon

I wanted to be a serious writer - unfortunately my muse is a small and not completely sane sheep - but what can you do? It's hard to explain, but that's life and I guess someone has to do it!
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  • Occupation
    A house may be filled with other things than people.
  • Big Bad Black Sheep
    A reworking of a familiar nursery rhyme.
  • Why the Sea is Boiling Hot
    Regardless of what reality actually is, does it end up having to be what we believe it to be?
  • What Did the Dodo Do to Upset God?
    Intelligent design? I don't think so.
  • Dark Sheep of the Apocalypse
    What have those sheep been up to?
  • They Think that There is Water on the Moon
    A short topical verse.
  • Juliet
    A familiar tale, with scale.
  • Dancing Sheep
    Who knows who we really are? Where is our chance to be that person?
  • We Are the Fantasy
    We are more than we seem to be, and maybe we are also less.
  • How Green is My Poem?
    Is it maybe greener not to even read it?
  • If I Could Have a Word with God
    Flossie would like to ask the all-powerful a few things.
  • Sheep in Space
    It's Flossie again, daydreaming about being a spacesheep. I just don't know where the sheep gets the ideas.
  • No Entry Wound
    A blow dealt, with no outward sign, but devastating internal damage.
  • The Wyrm of Time
    It is all smoke and mirrors, it is all illusion and all our perception - it is all that we have.
  • Birds and Pigs Are Catching Flu
    We know it's true - they're catching flu, and we are too!
  • Leah
    Far too long and far too difficult to explain, but true, completely true. The picture is of a telescope, I believe called Leah - while incongruous, it seems strangely appropriate.
  • The Bridge
    A bridge, nothing more and nothing less
  • I Never Held
    It is not where you go, it is how you get there.
  • The Kitchen Sink
    nothing is complete unless it includes the kitchen sink
  • Cat
    Haiku about a pet for Poetry Challenge
  • Learning HTML: Part 3
    The third in a series of articles about using HTML to build web pages
  • Learning HTML: Part 2
    The second article in the learning HTML series
  • Learning HTML: Part 1
    The first in a series of articles intended to help beginners build web pages.
  • I Pay the Bank
    I pay once for service - when I don't get the service I pay twice.
  • The Mirror
    When we looked in the mirror, we saw what we were and what we did, but imperfectly.
  • The Virtual Sheep
    We carry too much of ourselves into the virtual world and are lulled into a false sense of security by the lack of real awareness of where we are and how vulnerable we make ourselves.
  • How to Create an RSS Viewer for Your Website
    Suppose that you have a website on a subject, and you want to display a live feed of associated current news. This is what I wanted, but it was not very easy finding out exactly how to do it. This is how I did it for free.
  • If I Were a Sheep
    . . . life would be simpler
  • Electric Sheep
    We are seduced away from the real world into others unreal and yet with a reality of their own. We are led without thinking, driven without knowing and are the sheep that we dream of.
  • The King in Grey
    The classic view of good versus evil is rather too simplistic for our times, possibly any times. Good and evil maybe corrupted in equal measure but in our mythology we preserve them both.
  • And You with It
    Time need not be measured, but should be used.
  • Flossie Versus Facebook III
    Facebook has banned the little sheepie again, so he is starting out on his third account now. It all seems rather unfair.
  • My Carrot
    I am afraid that Flossie, my small sheep muse is responsible for this. The little woolly animal has a great fondness for carrots and thought that a poem was urgently required.
  • This Little Patch of Grass is Mine
    A sheep stakes his claim.
  • Achilles and the Tortoise
    An explanation of Xeno's paradox
  • Prayer
    An unusual item for me. Just a simple prayer.
  • Sheep's Lament
    A sheep laments the hopelessness of interspecies love.
  • X
    What is known to be unknown.
  • Cracks
    Just because it is broken, it doesn't mean that it has to be fixed.
  • The Night Shepherds
    Beyond the normal world and beyond the rural fields of sheep, there are other sheep who inhabit a mental realm where they graze on the borders of sleep. Some are well-behaved but others are out of control.
  • Sheepie, Sheepie
    Apologies to William Blake.
  • Spirituality Versus Religion
    Why religion is a threat to our ability to appreciate true spirituality.
  • Sheep Haiku
    Seasonal shearing
  • Piggy Wiggy Curly Tail
    A clean piggy? It's a porcine disgrace! An unusual excusion into piggyworld to visit an unusual piggy.
  • Morning Breaks
    We all know. There is no real philosophy here - it just happens.
  • How to Name a Sheep
    You've got your little sheep and you need to give him a name. Here's a few tips.
  • Sex in the Title
    Give the people what they want!
  • The Sheep Stood on the Burning Deck
    A tale of the deep and a nautical sheep.
  • Oggwool Fleece
    Sheep are not known for intelligence, ambition or cunning, but there are notable exceptions. A woolly web of power reaches out from a dark corner of a field somewhere in the English countryside.
  • Watch This Sheep
    The sheep has plans and ambition.
  • The Battle of the Shearing Shed
    A sheep makes a stand 'gainst the sheepshearing hand
  • The Stalking Sheep
    A small poem about being inexplicably stalked by a sheep.
  • Flossie Versus Facebook II
    Continuation of the emails between Flossie Sheep and Facebook
  • In Time My Thoughts Return to You
    Sometimes it's difficult just getting through the day. It's easy to lose focus and motivation and it takes time to recover it, but there are thoughts there which can help and, in time, they return to us.
  • Flossie Versus Facebook
    The sheep is upset by his treatment on Facebook. His account has been disabled and he has received no response to previous emails, other than an automated one.
  • The Ugly Sheepling
    Can the stupid poems about sheep get any sillier? Let's see!
  • Does God Exist?
    Trying to make sense of the question. The answer surprises me.
  • Facebook Does Not Welcome Sheep
    Poor Flossie, my alter-ego and somewhat mad muse has been kicked out of Facebook by having his account disabled. It is not too clear exactly why and the sheep is understandably miffed.
  • Echo
    We're quite noisy - we have an insatiable need to communicate and do so continuously. We can't help it. Sooner or later someone will come to take a look.
  • We're Living Now in Dangerous Times
    The world is what we make it. We have no options to fly away to a better world elsewhere - this is the one we have been given and this is the one that we have to make work.
  • Sheepshearing Blues
    A sheep sings the blues
  • Does the Right to Own a Gun Give You the Right to Use It?
    The USA has developed an unhealthy gun culture and this has developed into a simplistic might is right approach to problems.
  • Words
    An experimental piece. The issue is not, exactly, what is said, but how it is said and whether it can be understood.
  • As I Lay Me Down to Sleep
    A sheep says his bedtime prayers
  • I Wandered Lonely as a Sheep
    I wandered lonely as a sheep that grazes nobly on grass, when all at once I fell asleep and dreamed the following would pass:
  • The World Needs Stupid Poems About Sheep
    The title says it all. We all take ourselves too seriously and we mess things up because of it. Things go wrong and we forget that it's just normal - we forget to laugh and end up doing something even more stupid.
  • From Afar
    A love poem for valentines day about finding love across great distance
  • Vampire Sheep from Hell
    A scary tale to chill the blood - read this and I will tell, about a village troubled by the vampire sheep from hell.
  • Religion and Spirituality
    What is the difference between religion and spirituality? I do not consider myself as religious, but I do consider myself as spiritual. These are my thoughts on that.
  • How to Keep a Sheep
    If you want a sheep as a pet and companion, these are things you might like to know.
  • Stupid Poems About Sheep
    I would like more people to take an interest in poetry. To a certain extent, I can understand why they do not. I wish to make people more aware that poetry can be fun.
  • When Sheep Collide
    Naughty sheep having fun in a muddy field - nature just doesn't get better than this. Republished to correct errors in original, since there seems to be no other means of correction.
  • Unicorn
    The most that we could wish for.
  • When Sheep Collide
    Country sheep having fun in a muddy field.
  • The Floating Beetle
    I wrote this a long time ago. It is an extended metaphor about a gigantic beetle suspended in space. It is about a number of things, including futility and frustration.
  • Poetry
    A moan against the decline of standards in poetry. Iambic pentameter for those who care about such things.
  • Aardvark
    A rictameter on the Aardvark.
  • C for Cheetah
    The Cheetah, a poetic description with scientific accuracy.
  • I Love the Little Psychopath
    They are small and cute, but they have all the killer instinct of a tiger. They are full of blood-lust, but we just see them as playful.
  • Barnacle
    The life-cycle of the barnacle in verse. Scientifically correct, not very funny and not about sheep.
  • A Daisy for My Lady
    A young sheep wishes to express his love with the gift of a single daisy but, as ever, is not taken seriously by those who could help him and is again thwarted in his attempts.
  • Duck Billed Platypus
    It's time someone wrote a poem about this strange animal.
  • Three Little Sheep
    Sheepdip. More of a short little nursery rhyme than anything else.
  • Flossie and the Dragon
    An epic tale of how a brave inflatable sheep fights a dragon, rescues a beautiful princess and achieves fame and fortune.
  • How to Recognise a Sheep
    How do you recognise a sheep? Was that a sheep that just passed you on a bicycle? Read this and find out.
  • Mary Had a Little Lamb
    This is another dark tale of the Shepherdess. As usual, it does not have a happy ending. Those of a nervous disposition are advised to skip this one.
  • Never Trust a Shepherdess
    dark deeds amongst the flock
  • Don't Act Playfully with Death
    there is not only 52 cards in the pack
  • Tell Me What I Wish to Hear
    if reason fails, take the alternative. Truth is much overrated - what keeps us going is love, hope and dreams.
  • Roadkill
    A cautionary tale.
  • Never Try to Fool a Sheep
    fooling a sheep is just too easy
  • Kilroy was Here
    An acrostic poem. This particular piece of graffitti seems to have now faded away, but there was a time when the ubiquitous Kilroy was making his mark everywhere.
  • Destiny
    Our destiny is built on the structures that we have built in the past and, as it develops, so it reinforces its own history and makes it more secure. What happens is that we build our own trap. There is no clockwork spider only what we, ourselves, have created.
  • The Paving Stone
    This is a poem about the unlikeliest subject that I could think of and, as such, is intended as more of a poetic exercise than to hold any deeper meaning, but I thought it came out quite well. People do not always think about what is, literally, under their feet.
  • City
    Beyond life, life goes on
  • One Morning
    A sheep muses on cosmology
  • Never Let Your Sheep Go Out, Unless He's with a Friend
    A poem mourning the loss of sheep in town nightlife
  • Eighth Day
    How sheep were created and how they got their woolly jumpers.
  • Hero Sheep: The Golden Age of Wool
    A brief history in verse of the golden age of wool.

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