contemporary poetry

talking clocks

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talking clocks  (  skcolc gnikalt  )

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talking clocks

sun dialogues

syntax tocks

set backs & jet packs

speeding a head

tread lead legged

spew blue cuckoos

tempus fugitive

larks in the dark

run round the mouse

up bright night

grandfather paradox

facing the grains

sand in y' hand

phantoms afoot

- on the ticks

of y' tongue

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scribble piffle pen

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scribble piffle pen  (  nep elffip elbbircs  )

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pluck a pickled plum

pick the fruits of loop

snare the haring drum

crowing cock-a-hoop


glowing double dutch

on a rubble path

blather rabbit hutch

run the bubble's bath


overture the squall

tick another list

floating in the scrawl

suck the river's mist


cluck a rubber hen

scrambles in the head

scribble piffle pen

ink us back t' bed

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as ten herons hare

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as ten herons hare  (  erah snoreh net sa  )

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one robin bobs

with the bubbles on the birdbath


two cuckoos tock

with the ticks of a clock


three peewits pee

in a pea green bottle bank


four jackdaws caw

in the yawns of a morning


five finches fly

like a mackerel in the welkin


six siskins sink

in a red kitchenette


seven penguins prance

with the ants in y' pantry


eight ravens rave

in a static caravan


nine nightingales

sing in albert square


as ten herons hare

in the clover - over there

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lemonade

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lemonade  (  edanomel  )

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lemonade

serenade

seven sisters

sirius


semaphore

metaphor

rubber chicken soup


lunar hue

super glue

helterskelter

hovercraft


cattle prod

axelrod

splintered finger group


cotton wool

pocketful

pickled pepper

seraphin


keratin

theremin

ninja kestrel swoop


flashing bye

calcify

scattered ashes

bicycles


bugle blow

huguenot

hoop the fuckin' loop


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under pickled onion skies

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under pickled onion skies  (  seiks noino delkcip rednu  )

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tumbleweed is crack in town

sunken suns - a solar crown

topples swan & skittles flea

red is black as grocers brown


lepers leap a peaking trough

rivers spin the phantom cough

tumours bloom in lieu of see

as the tinkers taper off


tailors chase a fading ghost

piffle snails a pillared post

weasels weave the bastard scree

keeping watch but burning toast


sailors sink & purses pinch

serpents smile & snake an inch

as the piffle quivers thee

but the seasons siskins finch


sing y' bunions lullabies

under pickled onion skies

hesper o'er crows & bee

bumbles spreading butterflies


bear's the air so square the peg

sound around & drown this smeg

hare the land of library

pantomimes on planet egg

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desserification

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dessertification  (  noitacifitressed  )

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whipped vanilla sunspots

raspberry ripples


macaroon moonbeams

fudge sauce sorcery


mint-choc woodchip

chip shop mars barks


battered bat backspins

pop bottle riverbank


orangeade laser rays

cheesecake snakeskin


peach pie skylarks

victoria spongiform


iced cream bunions

butterscotch flycatchers


singing summer puddings

pavlova overtures

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daydream diary

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daydream diary  (  yraid meardyad  )

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sucking pickled eggs

in a cable car

with the king of spades

inks the fable's blah


fleeing from the lawn

& a garden gnome

sweat with chicken legs

pegging far from home


eating custard creams

in a mongol yurt

with a bewick's swan

sherbert for dessert


singing kate bush hits

running up that hill

shed banana skins

tripping jack & jill


cladding pyramids

spool an afternoon

soffiting on mars

strimming on the moon


scribble paper plane

pen the umbra's map

swim the waking's daze

catching scraps - of nap

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