…
climbing up snakes again
scaling green serpentine heights
life beyond the treeline
breathing in the black clouds
& sliding back down ladders
…
…
climbing up snakes again
scaling green serpentine heights
life beyond the treeline
breathing in the black clouds
& sliding back down ladders
…
…
gathered like a teatime
guaranteed a deep, deep
sigh & an eye-roll
over the clover leaves
from the greenest pasture
gone like a cuckoo
toodleooh then
since wore more pringle
& rediscovered ovaltine
since was slowly down
a grainy midlands town
vast glacial cracks
until one magic june’s
rainbow revelation
rebooted, regenerated
life on the patches
after the wife ran
off with the milkman’s cousin
todger intact
thank god for that, though
( free online to read )
…
…
once upon a picnic
lemonade in hand
cheese & pickle me, please
if the which is sand
pardon then & marbles
as the peach is canned
daze a haze of gravy
in the greenest land
time is like the blossom
when the day is blue
we became a statue
speckled i & you
thee, the gleaming milksop
’til the pale is tanned
i stand on the bandtstand
but am not in the band
…
…
~
insert the right word
or the meaning is lust
~
no one’s impressed
if you rhyme rain with spain
~
ignore the current thing
& do your own bollocks
~
readers should be passengers
upon your paper plane
~
fuck the dead greats – mostly
as most of them were wankers
~
proof read before
it’s in the pubic domain
…
…
man eats moon
move over mozart
mars is next
…
…
breaking news
the elephant hawk moth
isn’t an elephant
or a hawk
but may still be a moth
( we’ll keep you updated )
…
…
fifty p in change
underneath the sofa
eight greylags
vee a skein above
honking over rooftops
slates & chimney pots
sixty six freckles
upon your uncle’s arse cheeks
gravy skin suit
the parson’s nose job
best before the twenty eighth
reheat on gas mark four
pardon my parsnips
slide like a friday
thirty three minutes past
two in the afternoon
…
…
egbert henderson
fifty five puffin drive
gleneagles
e. gulliver
three treecreeper lane
kingfisherston
robin finchley
ten sparrow road
leighton buzzard
oz tritch
six chaffinch crescent
phoenix, arizona
mister p. whittington
four cormorant corner
turkey
hugh duckworth
two peewit avenue
timbuktoucan
…
( author notes )
twitcher is a slang term
for a bird watcher
( for those that don’t know )
…
…
yes, perchance the ants will dance
in a bumpkin’s barn
probably the breeze will sneeze
beavers dam & darn
badgers might invade peru
if the sapling twigs
beanstalks scratch magonia
penguins fly with pigs
fatter lambs on pastures graze
scotch egg hatchlings preen
poets unwrite purple prose
traffic lights stay green
certain stirs more than the rest
yet that west wind blows
southern norths & east again
up the parson’s nose
at a toss the sea could wave
at the midlands far
rubber chickens cross the road
as we umm an aah
balladeers with big ears could
bore us all again
woods in oakest albion
shelter us from rain
it’s likely – like v.d that
june is next as well
possibly the wasps will bee
if the bluebells knell
( ? )
…
…
i stand with the snakes
the slugs & the snails
i blame the blameless
& the teachers of the parents
i was so offended
when the bots were not offended
i vote for so & so
& i despise the othered them
i think they should bring back
dodos & echoes
i agree – mixed aggregates
are a sort of lottery
i heart emojis
& shag the current thing flag
my condolences
to the latest dead z-lister
…