contemporary poetry

chopping blocks & shopping trolleys

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chopping blocks & shopping trolleys  (  a  s i g h  )

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chopping blocks & shopping trolleys

dotting t's & steaming coffee

sneezing fits & singing kettles

chopping blocks & shopping trolleys


fencing posts & pencil folly

sensing ghosts & border collies

sliding doors & sniffing petals

fencing posts & pencil folly


chapel bells & apple toffee

cackle spells & spittle brollies

missing cats & fiddled fettle

chapel bells & apple toffee


evergreen & ever-holly

melon seeds & melancholy

kitchens sink & sinking settles

evergreens & ever-holly


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batten down them hatches

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batten down them hatches  (  a n o t h e r  p o e m  t h i n g  )

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cracking shots & glasses

flopping flops & gashes

fizzles in the hush-up

riddles in the mashes


spitting dust & ashes

pissing gusts & patches

whistles on the brushed scrub

panic in the masses


rubbing sticks & matches

sticking locks & latches

chuckles in the dead duck

staggers in the stashes


lapping lads & lasses

skipping bricks & scratches

witters in the headfuck

swivels on the axis


dotting eyes & dashes

inking blots & splashes

bastards in a bathtub

muddles in the mashes


lightning fright & flashes

smashing clouds & clashes

singing songs of tea cups

batten down them hatches

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gloam sweet gloam

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gloam sweet gloam  (  a  p o e m  f o r  s u n d a y  e t  a l  . . .  )

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jumbles jump the mumble

jungles jinx the jingle

nutters span the attic

witches in the grindle


dashes slap the stumbles

clashes tap the cymbals

crackles whip the static

squirrels in the dingle


apples pip the crumbles

grapples swine the swindle

manic pipes the magic

bristles in the brindle


fondles feel the fumble

tonsils speak the lingual

woven weaves the fabric

spoken rungs the spindle


stomachs tum the rumble

thunder thumbs the thimble

warbles fright the rabbits

dawdles sprite the nimble


adders snake the rundle

ladders shake the twinkle

haddock hicks the habit

havoc spits the simple


draymans toast the trundle

ravens crow the wrinkles

roses sniff the plastic

noses whiff the dimples


petals fluff the fungal

pebbles rough the shingle

staggers trawl the traffic

stutters stall the dwindle

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docket pocket

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docket pockets  (  a  f u c k i n ‘  p o e m  f o r  s a t u r d a y  )

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spindle twinkle little toes

winter whittled mistletoe

sputtered warring lion roars

silence, laws & cicero


bumbled jumble bungalows

stumble tumble undertows

snorkel snorting smorgasbords

volant ewes & u.f.o's


burble gurgle garden hose

parcel gargle marble flows

sodden amble troubadours

tosser tools & hammer throws


dawdle chortle jumble prose

portal mortal juxtapose

ripple rifle dinosaurs

butterflies & dominoes

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swivel chairs

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swivel chairs  (  a  p o e m  f o r  o u r  t h u r s d a y  )

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sing in swings of swivel chairs

apple pips & prickled pears

sputtered pots & spattered spoons

sinking suns & kitchenware


spurt in bursts of solar flares

broken toes & polar bears

binary & scattered runes

levity & questionnaires


skip in trips of thoroughfares

lizard blinks & buzzard stares

lemon pith & macaroons

beverages & bevel squares


slop in troughs of trap 'n' snare

otter socks & rattled hares

stumble tongues & afternoons

snip 'n' stick the whats & wheres

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hoops ‘n’ scoops

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hoops ‘n’ scoops  (  s o m e  u t t e r  f i l t h  )

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it's wobble pith in sputtered spots & nozzle nips in puddle jots

& ampersands in whisky whys

& tumbleweed

 'tween gypsy thighs


it's ombudsman in vested knots & winter wrens in crested socks

& geminis in taurus skies

& trawlermen

in fishnet tights


it's troubadours in you-know-whats & sycamore in cuckoo clocks

& violins in thimble thighs

& milking maids

with alibis


it's poltergeists in polka dots & dignitaries in stolen frocks

& buzzard spies with eager eyes

the raptor press

shall feast tonight

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