~
supper’s unready ( ydaernu s’reppus )
…
grow your own toenails
& save
a penny a day
budding
in the darkness
of a sweaty thermal sock
under oxford shoes
or r.h.s approved
plimsolls
wait for six hundred moons
& then feast
upon the harvest
…
~
supper’s unready ( ydaernu s’reppus )
…
grow your own toenails
& save
a penny a day
budding
in the darkness
of a sweaty thermal sock
under oxford shoes
or r.h.s approved
plimsolls
wait for six hundred moons
& then feast
upon the harvest
…
~
rhyming the wave ( evaw eht gnimyhr )
…
positron a paradox
post another pillarbox
sailing on a dawning sea
up before the nobs ‘n’ cocks
roaming in the fields of gist
knickers in the river twist
guess the rest ‘n’ yonder’s he
– pan’s the antlers in the mist
as the stream of brainless glooms
spinning tails in sitting rooms
prosody’s an odyssey
tallis lives & music blooms
tosser television blurbs
blossom noons the vernal verbs
birds in baths ‘n’ bubble tea
while a wilder garlic herbs
dashing dots, the whats ‘n’ whys
watching as a hoglet flies
from a hedge for watching we
squawking under pickled skies
’til the moon is mooning cheeks
marbleous, the martian peaks
when the lark is larking be
in the garden, fixing leeks
…
( author nodes )
shadow-banned by wrong’uns
with shite on their tongue
& nought but darkness
where their heart should be
while worse things happen at sea
…
~
sauce codes ( sedoc ecuas )
…
gravy eighty eight
open ketchup sesame
double oh seven mint
triple six mustard
…
~
( or more precisely ) ( ylesicerp erom ro )
…
after the cows
come down from the clouds
hanging heady heads
& gurning like a gibbon
chewing on a wasp
– when gingerbread men
outwit foxes
as neil ferguson
wins the euro millions
with the numbers he predicted
so before midday
on the forty fourth of august
or a wonky evening
come the sixty ninth of june
with a meal for two
from a pea & a rice grain
under purple suns
on a nun’s front garden
until narnia
invades ruritania
…
~
preamble ( elbmaerp )
…
once upon a this
sits a twat in candlelight
tosser be thy name
yes, the thy is me
we’s the river flowing so
dance another flame
as the normalzzz snore
’til the dandelions roar
stirring like a cock
cockerel – not a nob
but the cheese of poetry
as an unwashed sock
often whiffs a scent
washing pegs on nostril’s time
as a spanner scrawls
versing in reverse
i’m a spider – yet a fly
all is rubber walls
walk beyond the song
of a sinking cygnet swan
in a glugging tub
grow a glowing pear
where the air is chasing hares
nature is the rub
…
~
bard bark ( krab drab )
…
the canine playwright
scribbles shaggy, waggy tails
with dramatic paws
…
~
still unsung ( gnusnu llits )
…
like the gutsy cat
that saves the fire brigade
when they’re trapped up trees
…
~
cereal liar ( rail laerec )
…
wheat’s the deepest sea on earth
millet is an anagram of anorak pocket
rye is illegal in lichtenstein
rice is legless lice
spelt is spelt incorrect
sometimes the dictionary fibs
barley is the darkest of horses
her elbows smell – of custard creams
corn’s a sort of centipede
or a neolithic hologram
bran’s y’ nan on nandrolone
clattering pans
in the pantry
( oats know nuthin’ )
…
~
meds ( sdem )
…
stir a runny spoon
in a milky builder’s brew
honey in me tea
…