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tinnitus the night ( thgin eht sutinnit )
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bell ringer bellows
campanologists clanging
hear within the ear
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tinnitus the night ( thgin eht sutinnit )
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bell ringer bellows
campanologists clanging
hear within the ear
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hear in the chatters ( srettahc eht ni raeh )
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breezes is wheezes, a cheeses – achoo
she of the dingle is pickling eggs
sneezes, trapezes – a loosening shrew
vinegar vixen, the underling smegs
smudges is fudges, a budgerigar
blizzarding wizards, a slithering deep
farting a parsnip if nearer is far
singing is spinning, the springing is sleep
hear in the chatters, a whispering shout
choruses walrus, a badgering bat
sun in the distance is smoking a trout
focus is frozen – the ballad is shat
fuck it is buckets, the gnosis is gnome
off is an otter & waffling home
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velcro wars ( part 17 ) ( ( 71 trap ) sraw orclev )
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d-h-d-8
flapjack
saddle wax
3-4-t-2
siskins
silver birches
7-f-1-d
cobwebs
custard skin
u-5-9-y
butterfly
string vest
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jan ( naj )
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belling back before the end
knelling after what’s before
singing swans beyond the bend
turn the tumble turnip door
wander in a ringing wood
walk a thawing frosted path
hat beneath a robin’s hood
as the phantom badgers laugh
& the shatting branches bare
bugger all but mossen bark
scatters in the whisper air
spring’s a dither’s distant lark
learn another broken code
sodding resolutions spool
hymn an ancient infant’s ode
all is nought – the plodding fool
spot the mackerel mottled sky
burn the tinsel christmas tree
cross another scrying i
dot another brewing t
pissing storming scribbled ink
’til the mutant rhyme is done
sinking in this drooping think
rising like the yawning sun
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sandy ( ydnas )
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lines in the sand
sandpit runway
sandpaper plane
sing, sandbar
greensand salad day’s
sandstone undertones
sandstorm clouds
bury heads in sand
a thousand ostriches
hark, sand martins
& ampersands
sand on a breeze
beach sand blowing
sandcastles over
sand in a sandwich
time’s sand grains
on a sandal’s sole
sandpipers playing
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today’s poem is ( si meop s’yadot )
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the second punic war
pewter forged with silver
floating over there
where the air snares feathers
phospholipids
a thousand little owls
catching a bus
with a bloody big net
yesterday’s gravy
yes men with rabies
anthills in antioch
bees in aberdeen
handstands in bandstands
peanut butter fingers
peppermint tea bags
penicillin g
bellowing yellows
whispered turquoise noise
singing saucy shanties
on the hepatitis sea
parping parsnip gasses
pickled fucking onions
friends with all the wrong’uns
& the covid cult defilers
( amen )
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bottles ( selttob )
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five green bottle tops
genie in a bottle fly
bottle in a ship
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sound check poem ( meop kcehc dnuos )
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one, two – swans too
there’s a song within me shoe
where the sixth toe glows
as a cheese breeze blows
loose screws, shrews shoo
& a monkey up a tree
like a sonnet in the bonnet
of an on it bumblebee
three, four – green door
& a doodle in the doo
dodos, slo-mo
& a dicky dictionary
five, six – six, five
i’ve a pebble in me sock
but the arse parps free
like y’ father in a frock
bass up, bass down
in the dingles – all around
a, b – chase me
maybe, rabies
one, two – swans too
there’s a song within me shoe
as a kipper rides a bike
there’s a cabbage on the mic
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feathered friends ( sdneirf derehtaef )
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chaffinch chums
blackbird buddies
buzzard clan
raven acquaintances
siskin sidekicks
song thrush brethren
kingfisher tribe
pheasant pals
swallow compatriots
sparrow cronies
magpie mates
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facing the grey ( yerg eht gnicaf )
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fluff stuck on velcro
the mystery of fluff
– where does it waft from
& what’s their agenda?
is fluff dust
& a cousin of lint?
( mizzle-mist spits
bits of the river )
brown cows moo
as the west sun sets
– nothing funny happened
on the way to the fayre
leaves on the pavement
litter in a hedge
yesterday’s papers
dumped in a layby
all is a jigsaw
when will it sing?
– time slides sideways
watching the cobwebs
facing the grey
as the multiverse blooms
locus in focus
eat my minutiae
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