Concerning the prose (because I don't know the first thing about poetry):
It's written in quite a nice clean chatty style. Sentences get a tad ungainly at points, but not really all that bad.
I liked the one about fencing, it was short, snappy, and well argued. Although you may want to go over the paragraph about football, which is a little clumsy in places.
The one about the dragon I didn't like, but that was politics so best not to go into that.
Keep at it.
Sophia Grace
Sophia Grace