( a surfeit of lampshades )

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( a surfeit of lampshades )  (  a  r e w r i t e  o f  a  p r e v i o u s l y  o n  )

 




cheapskate in a dream state paper

plain & black as snow

kisses shite & shattered pen ink

white as frozen crow

clean slates slip as swans sing chansons

spits of feathered songs

so the ruffled stream flows backwards

upwards then we row


slime to meet thy honey maker

itch & twiddle toes

ninja slice & dice an onion

nimbly kneed that dough

bang a speckled y'olden gold gong

thesp & act that one

stir the ghosts for spectral breakast

when the garden grows


garbled scraps & bastard capers

scarpered as me flow

stick to myths & squinter's whispers

knot what folk may know

apples bob & rivers glisten

avalon & on

scribbles in the jiggles wriggle

squits of so & so


fruits of frorests, floss & labour

fizzled quill winds blow

flicker flecks & settle embers

watch them as they glow

ring-a-ring of wrongs etc.

where they should belong

as the rabble rain rants buckets

fuck it - here we go

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folk magnet

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folk magnet  (  a  p o e m  )


thimbles thatch the beans

penguins pepper evergreens

puffin muffins means


purple curtains cats

curdle jams the jungle gnat

adders hatch the rat


quiver winter queens

rivers shovel submarines

buzzards tambourine


herd is hare the pat

air is square the chairman splats

opera ox the bat


blisters double cream

blizzards mutton butter spleens

bubble mezzanine


puddle plugs the plait

warble woads a woven hat

so soak flay - & that

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lines upon a sun-daze

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lines upon a sun-daze  (  a  p o e t r y  o f  m o r n )




finder's fleas & fire eaters

kettles storming phantom castles

myrmidons & water meters

sugar lumps the sunken camel


leopard spots & chequered cheetahs

lizards rigging ruffled raffles

anagrams & sea verb beavers

bakers roll the battered barrel


melon groves & lemon squeezers

badgers bobbing rotten apples

butchery & eager cleavers

reavers reap the babble's battle


locust swarms & lotus eaters

fingers slipping - fumble grapples

summer's sleet & winter's easter's

whispers in the haunted chapel

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the fog is flap

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the fog is flap  (  a  p o e t r y  o f  p o e m  )



the fog is flap & glen's the fen

that fleck's the speck & sense the sen

the head is nest & peck's the hen

as sing's the spring & wren's the pen


the tread is shell & egg's the on

that rings the bells & spells the gone

the year is beer & blear's the yon

as hog's the hedge & spear's the swan


the flute is flue & flight's the flow

that caws the roar & tugs the tow

the bask is black & night's the glow

as brawn's the morn & dawn's the crow


the ink is finch & glide's the walk

that plods the squab & gobs the squawk

the wood is toots & scoot's the stalk

as spy's the eye & sight's the hawk


the wing is string & pot's the luck

that spills the bills & quacks the cluck

the whirl is pool & spool's the struck

as rain's the thwack & back's the duck


the speak is beak & spin's the spurred

that seeks the seed & spoons the stirred

the ruff is plume & hoot's the slurred

as burst's the merge & blur's the bird

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breadcrumbs

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breadcrumbs  (  a  ?  )




a flicker in the vicarage

a tingle in the toe

a ripple in the waterbed

a footprint in the snow


a feather in the dresser drawer

a pebble in the shoe

a marble in the garden shed

a spanner in the screw


a ladder in the library

a needle in the mow

a weasel in the binary

a dagger in the glow


a clover in the grocer's store

a vista in the view

a cipher in the spider's web

a pencil in the clue

( ? )

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