contemporary poetry

swans upon a dream

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swans upon a dream  (  maerd a nopu snaws  )

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floating over frozen fog

as the babbles blow

life is but a butter bean

grab y' boat & row


like a bot & dot the dots

spot the rubber ball

bite the silver bulletin

nap's a caterwaul


otters of the otherlings

bumbles of a bee

river in this prosody

stumble up a tree


ocean in the ghost above

trains upon the brain

jacobites & ammonites

dancing in the rain


fist the mist of saturday

spin with saturn's rings

sail the seas of mercury

til the onion springs


singing in the feathered head

swans upon a dream

crooning with the blooming sun

gleaming with the stream

...

 

soups of the daze

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soups of the daze  (  ezad eht fo spuos  )

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magic mushroom mondays

skeletons & croutons


too many tuesdays

& the broth is off


watercress wednesdays

cutting through the mustard's gas


turnip top thursdays

( poor man's carrots )


alphabetic friday

- slurp like a phoenecian


smoggy pea saturdays

lost in phantom fog


roll with not a bowl

a kitchenette

or thermos flask


( til )


cold, tinned sundays

- soups of the daze

...

 

singing not a sonnet

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singing not a sonnet  (  tennos a ton gnignis  )

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cob y'rolling vistas

kippers smoked the oak tree

beaker people coasters

onion sky


pterodactyl lemons

television hopscotch

plods beyond the brambles

tangle i


phantoms of the tangents

sail upon a seesaw

quibbles of the swivels

spin the chair


snails upon a coffin

sing the song of odd socks

apple bobs the robin

yon's a bear


yawning through a haiku

morning spies a magpie

singing not a sonnet

or a list


penning in the headland

hops upon a hilltop

spinning in the midlands

kiss the mist

...

 

penicillin pelicans

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penicillin pelicans  (  snacilep nillicinep  )

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penicillin pelicans

pickled pepper paper plane

paradiddle pantomime

skelterheltor skeletons


skelterheltor skeletons

hyroglyphic hierophant

diabetic diatribes

lemon scented medicines


lemon scented medicines

misted mizzle madrigals

dagger dancing dictionary

weasel popping hellions


weasel popping hellions

otters rig the lottery

lizards licking pencil lead

penicillin pelicans

...

catching

~

catching  (  gnihctac  )

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rain again upon the lane

in the garden - too


stars from yonder hologram

sneezing fits, the flu


drifts within a hammock's nap

cats 'n' dogs - the clap


silverfish in kitchen sinks

fifty winks - & you


...

the madness of clouds

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the madness of clouds   (  sduolc fo ssendam eht  )

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mackerel smoke rings

cotton wool ball sacks


balzac & anne boelyn

dance the lambada


snowing over clover

garden gnome gnosis


ishtar gargles

stratospheric ketchup


frogs from the welkin

bright white satellites


shepherd red eyes cry

ziggurat splashback


cumulus ninjas

gloam, ghost avenues


half a yard of parsnips

spaghetti feedback hoops


...

bright white poltergeist

~

bright white poltergeist  ( tsiegreltop etihw thgirb )

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bright white poltergeist

snare hare dinosaur

eye saw sauropods

syntax anorak


splashback scatterings

earwig wizardry

clubfoot balladeer

catflap cadillac


five high, viruses

dead leg telephone

nosebleed metronome

toad so, natterjack


hi-fi hierophant

headfuck pencil case

pan pipe library

plum jam lumberjack


glue gun gulliver

lime green ganymede

mildew milking maid

whiplash pavement crack


a4 paper planes

midlands middle eight

sweetcorn choruses

claptrap cul-de-sac

...

 

five white hares

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five white hares  (  serah etihw evif  )

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five white hares

on the frost of a garden


four jackdaws

on the cow brown leas


waking the day

as the dormouse doze so


three weasels scheme

in the woodlands snare


bears in the thicket

of the bramble's tangles


two shrews snooze

of an afternoon


one swan bobs

on the fog of a river


goblins - in the outhouse

& a parsnip

in a pear tree

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