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treewheeling ( gnileehweert )
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one plus two is tree
as tree’s the magic number
tree is company
further, tree’s a crowd
the best things in life are tree
tree strikes & you’re out
tree the evening stars
be footloose & fancy tree
drinking cups of tree
as tree as a bird
play tree dimensional chess
eating a tree lunch
tree the light of day
i’ll tree you in the next life
singing tree blind mice
get away scot-tree
& tree the wood for the trees
tree, myself & i
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but in eleven ( nevele ni tub )
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friday
raisins
rambles
raffles
semtex
celery
spiders
selenium
turnstiles
silence
silage
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scraps, maps & missives ( sevissim & spam ,sparcs )
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pen of pencil sharpeners
should the moon permit
soon is pickled in a jar
yesterday’s tomorrow
colanders & calendars
so gather scatter cushions
’til the roman roads
curve like space-time
spittle meets the sun
rainbows stuck in traffic’s jam
tangled as the brambles
of next week’s daydream
ants ‘n’ ammonites
cotton socks ‘n’ jacobites
spring is heeled like jack
jumping roof to roof
face a pheasant’s brace
death is television
evil’s mediocrity
& cucumbers in fridges
this is not the song
a woodcock in a wood would sing
like a fucking trooper
in h-flat major
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teatime calling ( gnillac emitaet )
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dream of rosie lee
& toasted, buttered crumpets
jams on the roads home
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down on the bot farm ( marf tob eht no nwod )
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up before up
dawn does not compute
water fake faces
glowing on the pastures
digital chickens
lay them little eggs
sing in algorithms
gather in a bastard
or an inter’s net
spodding on inside
down on the bot farm
under darker clouds
plough for new identities
while we dream
milk the weasel teats
of the sleepless codes
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under cuckoo clocks in flight ( thgilf ni skcolc ookcuc rednu )
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little disc shaped eggs
in the hayloft of the barn
when the shootings stop
soon the hatchlings coo
parents spinning back & forth
frequent, these mealtimes
feed ’em earthworms
pellets from an air rifle
small balls of play-doh
marzipan & chips
twitch ’em with binoculars
r.s.p.b this
in an anorak
or a shower proof cagoule
spring is sprung abound
what a vernal sight
under cuckoo clocks in flight
clay pigeons nesting
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z-listers ( sretsil-z )
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zephyrous zeros
zoroastrian zebras
zombie zookeepers
zuccini zealots
zeus’s zitherers
zambian zeppelins
ziggzagging
zurich’s ziggurats
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as the buzzards hum ( muh sdrazzub eht sa )
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fog beyond the frost
floating in the frozen so
toes ‘n’ fingers crossed
spin the greening leas
uppercut ‘n’ chin the hills
with a creeping breeze
wellingtons in time
’til the moon is afternoon
with a weathered rhyme
striding like a list
feather quill a better still
sun behind the mist
ticking closer – come
rocking chair a boxing hare
as the buzzards hum
’til the teasels stir
& a springing lamb is sprang
as the catkins purr
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drifting a partridge ( egdirtrap a gnitfird )
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cousin of the quail
– the feathered sort
so not the prozzers
spouse of the grouse
catch
a weaving breeze
fields become oceans
be that
magic plank
pastures waving on
paper planes
& grass plains
floating
over clover
( further still yet further )
brother of the pheasant
go
from where the pear tree grows
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resarf poetry 