awake & sail

~

awake & sail  (  lias & ekawa  )






awake & sail a phantom mist

the shapes of wraith - a tale, a twist

the night is day, the day is night

& shatters punch the mirror's fist


a groan of bones, a bluff of blood

& earth's a ghost, a rush of mud

a bat of flaps, the black of white

the curtain fell - a crash, a thud


the lemons suck, the daze is grey

the spiders spin, the pipers play

a swan of songs, a swimming kite

a peaking trough, a sliding brae


the lizard scales the boxing frog

a barking cat, a purring dog

the moth that fled the candlelight

is scrawling balls in analogue


a silent lark, a wood of stumps

a blooming moon, a goose of bumps

the ruse of breath's a feathered flight

& skin's the stuff of custard lumps


a feast of peas & buttered bread

& sleep upon a creaking bed

the breathing dead, a speckled sprite

until the light - & live, instead

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autumn fayre … esque

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autumn fayre … esque



toffee apple tree frog

fly, greek fireworks


guy fawke's forked tongue

hot chocolate labradors


greenman evensong

antlers in the awning mist


cheese straw stagger stalls

pumpkins, pears & mayors


anoraks & anagrams

hymns spin cider webs


smoked ghost goblin hat

baked potato bean bag


wassail, pilot whale

pontius pilate power naps


cake tin whistles whet

town crier bellends

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s p r e a d

~

s p r e a d  (  d a e r p s  )




scatters of cushions

mist of a morning

jam on a crumpet

butter on bread


ashes & rashes

raspberry ripples

cabbages scribble

licking the lead


pickles & picnics

villagers whisper

piffle & measels

weaving the thread


sneezes on breezes

autumn is spawning

summer is sleeping

bugs in the bed


winter is stirring

spring it  wing it

bats in the attic

birds in the head


bobbling's a robin

pecks on the noggin

finches & inching

feathers & spread

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crunch & munch

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crunch & munch  (  hcnum  & hcnurc  )




crisp autumn leaves

pickled wisps of river mist

salt & vinegar breeze


numbers up & run

chestnuts in a duffel bag

cheese & onion sun


spot the what's & pears

sprint with sprigs of peppermint

lemon posset air


chimneys sputter soot

poppadom beyond the town

crackers underfoot


apple crumble ground

blackberries & blooming shrooms

lunch is all around

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turnip boy

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turnip boy  (  yob pinrut  )


~


sing of troy, turnip boy

babylon & babble on


in the crisp, river's fist

phantom handstand


~


hymn in rags, plastic bags

haversacks & handkerchiefs


warble north - of a morn's

sausage dog dawn


~


corvids come, hum a drum

mumble on a sodden lea


bumblebees, mushy peas

pygmy goat's cheese


~


pillories, post-it-notes

pangolins & pencil lead


edible, sentinel

vegetable lad


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a u t u m n

~

a u t u m n  (  n m u t u a  )



amber, auburn, antlers, apple crumbles

aspic, anvils, antics, ado


unsung, unplugged, ursus, upland, umbles

urchins, urges, umbers undo


teasels, teeters, topspin, toffee - tumbles

tosspots, teapots, toddle & ooh


uphill, ulcers, upshots, utter uncles

unlit ushers, ulmus unscrew


mud floods, measles, misted mizzle mumbles

moonlit mutants, morrismen moo


nettles, nestles, nunchucks, numbers, numbles

notches, nozzles, nuclear

new

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the winter sings

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the winter sings  (  sgnis retniw eht  )




the winter sings of crystal crows

& bumblebees in bungalows

a shuffle in a rusted key

the frozen feet of mistletoes


the winter odes of thicker socks

a dust of snow & ships in docks

a sort of door, a storming sea

the stuff of rubber chickenpox


the winter croons of blooming moons

& sunken suns in afternoons

a blowing nose, a pint of tea

a pantomime in pantaloons


the winter wails of whiter dales

a spirogram of phantom's tails

a parsnip in a poplar tree

the rise & thaw, the troughs & scales


the winter trills of trar-luh-lars

the speak of sheep, the bleats & bars

the flock of off & bugger me

the tinsel shit of twinkle stars


a hymn until the onion springs

a crocus croaks & saturn rings

the vernal verse of mumble-dee

a flap of wings - the winter sings

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