I started PoemFactory, the first site to offer bespoke poetry for occasions, in 2003. Since then lots of others have sprung up, a great many of them copying everything from the layout of our original site to the order form, prices and more. Some of them are big businesses with a lot of capital behind them, and poor little PoemFactory slowly sank to the bottom of Google, almost disappearing without a trace (is that a violin I hear?). But not quite. What PoemFactory needed was a new home and a bit of a boost. Others might be able to steal my ideas but they can’t, however, emulate the quality of my poems. Some things just can’t be ripped off.
If you’re after a schmaltzy rhyming verse comparing your girlfriend to a weeping willow, or a framed poem in baby language for your nursery, I’m probably not the poet for you. Unless your girlfriend has really frizzy hair and a stoop, and your nursery is inhabited by a 40-year-old uncle with a speech impediment.
I’ve written poems for every occasion you can think of – hundreds of best man’s speeches (you may even have heard one at a wedding, that’s how many I’ve done), leaving poems for work colleagues, birthday and anniversary poems, the lot. I’ve even written “you’re dumped” poems and, best of all, I once wrote one for a lady who was leaving a small village and wanted to tell the locals exactly what she thought of them. 500 copies were printed and thrown from the car window in handfuls on her way to the airport. I enjoyed that one.
So whether you want to make your granny giggle her false teeth into her birthday cake, make your colleagues laugh and point at the new guy, give a best man’s speech that will NEVER be forgotten or just brighten (or ruin) someone’s day, get in touch and I will work with you to create the perfect verse.
