A collection of poetry to rival other collections of poetry!
Oddfellows Passage and Other Poetic Whimsy is a collection of 32 poems and stories written to inspire wonder and elicit laughter. In here you’ll find such poems as Gerald, the Christmas Shark, Pirates in the Attic, The Boy with the Sideways Brain, and many more!
A down-on-his-luck ship’s captain volunteers to aid a squirrel in finding her lost, ancestral homeland. Along with a jackalope, a man who only speaks hawk, and a hawk-to-English hawk translator, Oddfellows Passage sees a small vessel and an intrepid band set off on a quest for that thing which all true adventurers seek: the perfect walnuts!
About the author
Michael Riley
One of the most celebrated poets of ancient Connecticut, Michael is believed to have authored Oddfellows Passage and Other Poetic Whimsy, an epic work that shaped Western literature. Whether or not that shape is a good one remains to be seen.
Due to his reclusiveness little is known about his life, but the rumor is that he was born in Burlington, Connecticut, and that his earliest influences were authors such as J.R.R Tolkien, Brian Jacques, and Bill Watterson.
What readers said
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Oddfellows Passage saved my marriage from the brink of ruin.
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Buy this book, I beg you. My son has too much time on his hands, and he spends too much of it with us. Give him something else to focus on, for the love of God.
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It is technically poetry.
Posts and Musings
All very interesting stuff, I assure you!
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Happy Wednesday! I hope if you’re reading this you have a blessed and wonderful day. Each day is a gift, and I firmly believe that. Given that I’ve been more wrapped up in writing prose these past months, my poetry pace has definitely slackened, but I figured I’d share one which I actually tinkered with…
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There’s a title, huh? I was just going through some of my older poetry and thinking what might be a fun poem to share: something light and whimsical and all that. Hopefully I haven’t shared this here, but a few years ago that old line popped into my head, “Jack be nimble, Jack be quick…”…
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I wanted to share a narrative poem I wrote a few years ago. It’s a western, except all the human roles are now given to anthropomorphized cats! Ridiculous? Definitely! But that’s okay, I think. I wanted to include this poem in my first book of verse, but I ended up leaving it out…and I’m kind…
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