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s h r e w s ( s o m e p o e m o r o t h e r )
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s onic sister sun sorbet sabre sailor straightaway h osta hobble hideaway hooded hyphen holiday r undle rubble ricochet ruffle roses runaway e asel eagle émigré echo elbow everyday w icket warble watwerway whippet wrestle wren wednesday s ilver sausage saturday solar saucer stowaway ...
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focus crocus ( a f u c k i n ‘ p o e m )
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swans upon a maritime winter songs & bombardiers tingles in the fingertips canters on & cavaliers midas in the minus signs mutant ears & mutineers fission in the fish 'n' chips saddle wax & souvenirs serpents in the serpentine liquorice & lunar years attics in the lunatics apple pips & racketeers farmers in the frankenstein garden sheds & belvederes dangles in the candlesticks bits of lists & brigadiers bubbles in the battle line leather clogs & gondoliers squinter in the intermix fiddlesticks & middle ears water in the summer wine ninja kicks & ginger blear mortar in the building bricks fester in the yesteryear lepers in the lemon thyme fisheries & fiscal years supper in the scuppered ships needles in the stratosphere pants upon a pantomime stagger on & volunteers badgers in the bag o'tricks babble on & persevere ...
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pigeons in holes ( t h e p o e m )
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badgers in gaps & bats in babbles
battles in scraps with ants in pants
ladders the asp that bit the apple
rabble's the rants & flap's dance
teasels in wheeze & fleas in weasels
measles in bumps & mumps in scrapes
easel's the crane that frames the eagle
scupper's the breeze & scrape's the apes
phantoms in hands & bands in marches
carpets in flight with pigs in spins
cannon's the kite that strikes the arches
fathom's the nail & tail's the pin
pigeons in holes & voles in pockets
squinter in lieu with shrews in shoes
whisper's the mole that stole the docket
simmer's the fog & hob's the spew
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a shropshire ladder ( a . e i n t h e h o u s e – m a n )
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hen i was swan & bendy i burred an iceman splay " div sounds & nouns & spinneys but knot your harp array; sieve pearls - wah hey - & uzis but sweep your pansy tree " but i was swan & bendy, snow juice to squawk to me hen i was swan & bendy i whirlwind whey again " the tart is trout & wooden was weather gibbon in vane; 'tis maid with thighs-a-sentry & scold for breathless boo " & i am shrew & bendy & crow, 'tis spew, 'tis spew ...
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piss off ( a l o v e l y p o e m & a s o n g t o o )
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parallax bagpipes
palm balm saddle wax
gobshite gormless
tractors - battleaxe
polka dot white slice
milksop pantomime
hilltop - formless
antler's alkaline
calamine fishwife
spatchcock avenue
coleslaw walrus
laptop kangaroo
magnetron magpies
oxbow telephone
hopscotch porous
bawl sack metronome
babble bat glass eyes
pub prick tosser socks
tin can taurus
tongue spun otter pox
poetry's panpipes
heave ho madrigal
mudflap chorus
splashback admiral
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a squawk in the rain ( a p o e m m m m )
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a squawk in the rain a clod with the frog as otter's the drain & lead is the log a ghost in the gloam a spool in the coat as pollen's the foam & pool is the poke a pin in the grin a turd in the hat as crow in the spin & snow we burn black ...
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a snake & still a sheep ( a p o e m z z z )
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i'm a snake & still a sheep
bumbles in the mumble's bread
eyes-a-slur & cream in creak
rundles in the rumble's stead
i'm a mare & of the brae
gazing in the bite of night
battle's bats & sing's the jay
babble on & song's the tights
i'm the cleft & churn a chain
slack's the slaw as gore's the grouse
portals paw & prat's the brain
'til once war - i'll haunt this mouse
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for poetry’s cake ( a p o e m , n a t u r a l l y )
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i gravel the sand & vale the vee i shawl up the shore & squawk the bee as beacons then dirge & birds then thigh in birch of that nurse that gurns the key i fodder the east & sod the north i session the priest & flask the hordes as leopards pull wool & bulls then rye the plankest of pines that sink the forth i bastard the bands & crow the snow i easel the breeze & reel the toe as guilders brick balls & squall it fries & pluck-all tit mauls so on eye glow i muffle the south & vest the west i trouser the flap & shat the x as catheters dust & cackles pie for poetry's cake - oh, swan i crest ...
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porridge forage ( a p o e m & a m e s s )
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mumbles, tangles - bramble jam the jar jungles, dangles, bumblebee & tree rambles, scrambles - apple crab the spar trundles, rundles, glimmer-shim & lea meadows, echoes - riverbank the brook bellows, hedgerows, raptor-map & scanned flutter, frescoes - tenter hook the crook nutter, yellows, rubber ducks & bands heather, blether - weather green the root crooked, hooded, wooded track & trail golden, y'olden - ever-gleams the shoot feather, footed, moorland, tor & veil latches, scratches - pasture patch the scrap herbal, verbal, curdle crow & notes petals, nettles - circles turn the flap hatches, hurdles, burble blow & oats ...
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pursed lips ( a p o e m )
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of needles we hymn & pins in sing as bellends then ring & cats flap wings as milling maids silk & kitchens milk the sows of the ears - cows hear - us ping ...
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