Love Songs
Max's Love Songs include long languid love poems in ballad form and nonsense verse on a romantic theme. Some of the poems are funny, others obliquely humorous, whimsical or deliberately obtuse. Those unfamiliar with Max's poetry or looking for conventional funny love poems would be well advised to first read Max's Funny Poems about Love, before revisiting the exotic delights of the Love Songs.
The Filing Clerk’s Love Song
A humorous poem about a gently smoldering office romance, which has more than its fair share of culinary analogies.
Last Tango In Swanage
A highly evocative terpsichorean poem in which fantasy and reality are intertwined. All Swanage life is laid bare here.
The Wombat’s Valentine
A nonsense poem in Max's inimitable style which it would take a braver man than I to try and unravel.
A Baker’s Love Song
Those familiar with The Subaltern's Love Song (and who amongst our readers wouldn't be) will enjoy Max's parody of John Betjeman's poem about the irresistible tennis playing Miss Joan Hunter Dunn. Other will be slightly bemused by a nonsense poem about a baking contest.
The Love Song of the Jibbernob
Welcome to to the world of the love lorn, love torn Jibbernob, who sings plaintive songs to his lost love.
Pre-Raphaelite Love Song
Another nonsense verse, which name checks the famous and infamous of the pre-raphaelite era.
The Love Song of the Anne Summers Rep
Prepare for a sharp change in tone, as The Love Song of the Anne Summers Rep is a rather dirty poem which builds to a touchingly romantic conclusion.
I Love Lucy in the House of Wax
The opening line, Newspaper taxis of yellow and green, turtles and penguins in silk, will confirm that we're once again entering the wonderful world of nonsense verse where your guess is as good as mine. It may be a poem about a waxwork museum, but then again...
Tango on the Costa del Salford
If you found Last Tango In Swanage a little pedestrian, prepare yourself for the exploits of a tango-loving Salford policeman.
The Love Song of Edgar Allen Poe
It was a close run thing whether to include The Love Song of Edgar Allen Poe with the Love Songs (the title suggests I made the right choice) or funny literary poems (the poem will appeal more to Poe-lovers than romantics).
An Old Love Song
A tragicomic poem about love in old age, which may harbour a rather filthy undercurrent, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
