DJ Tyrer is the person behind Atlantean Publishing, was placed second in the 2015 Data Dump Award for Genre Poetry, and has been published in issues of Amulet, California Quarterly, Carillon, The Dawntreader, Haiku Journal, The Pen, and Tigershark, and online at Atlas Poetica, Bindweed, Poetry Pacific, and Scarlet Leaf Review, as well as releasing several chapbooks, including the critically acclaimed Our Story. The echapbook One Vision is available from Tigershark Publishing’s website. SuperTrump and A Wuhan Whodunnit are available to download from the Atlantean Publishing website.
His website is at https://djtyrer.blogspot.co.uk/. The Atlantean Publishing website is at https://atlanteanpublishing.wordpress.com/
Trolls
Whenever he heard the word
He thought of Harry Potter
Not purveyors of nastiness
And, electronic abuse.
Had Hermione been to hand
She might have explained
The meaning came from fishing
Not Scandinavian myth.
But, regardless
At least he never fed the scum.
© DJ Tyrer
2020
On the hospital ward
In lieu of hope
Consider poor life choices
Man of a certain age
Most at risk
Virus greater threat if overweight
Diabetic or otherwise in poor health
Regret a diet high in fat, sugar
General lack of exercise
Yet, probability isn’t certainty
Possibility of recovery
Escaping ward to home in lockdown
With a chance, at least
To one day step outside
Walk beneath the open sky
© DJ Tyrer