contemporary poetry

squall it all

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squall it all ( lla ti llauqs )

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& penguin biscuits

tigers in a sherman tank

penpals ‘n’ pencils

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penpals ‘n’ pencils

chequered like a microphone

testing sound with chess

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testing sound with chess

bouncing like sir barnes wallis

on a wallaby

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on a wallaby

watching queen nefertiti

smoking mackerel skies

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smoking mackerel skies

wickets in the thicket stick

so the even weaves

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so the even weaves

with these peppermint tea leaves

& penguin biscuits

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as the gob of autumn yawns

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as the gob of autumn yawns ( snway nmutua fo bog eht sa )

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night is creeping, spot the crook
blacker than a sooted rook
burning on as if a book

cancelled like a harmless joke
fire flaps with arms of smoke
fogging forth, the pasture’s cloak

bugger me – the morning spawns
stagger yon & polish horns
as the gob of autumn yawns

death’s anew in olden blues
bushes gurning, turning shrews
green is gleaming golden hues

scree’s the hordes of falling leaves
tapestries, this season weaves
all is balls & summer heaves

huffs another fuck it then
pisses off beyond the glen
floating when the poets pen
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quizzical responses

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quizzical responses ( sesnopser lacizzuiq )

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starter for ten pence

phobus & deimos

marxists united

bend the knee f.c

e-flat minor

marjoram & tarragon

catherine of aragon

pickled eggheads

glass man syndrome

seven red herrings

antlers on a postcard

someone call the coastguard

mint choc-chipmunk

troughs upon upland

fingers on the buzzard

& the babble of jutland

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us organics

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us organics ( scinsgro su )

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us organics
sing beyond the swan
bats in the belfry
is healthier than bots

fuck that magic
darker than the crack
of a shadow man’s arse
or the ashes of a crow

us organics
us true humanoids
not masked cattle
or reductionist androids

pan not panic
laughter in the wood
pole shifts twisting
unloosened shrews

us organics
see the rhyme of time
in one-way train rides
to old normal borstal

as per ghouls
& jobsworths in jackboots
gulags looming
like a furry in an nursery
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rivers on the run

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rivers on the run ( nur eht no srevir )

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live ‘n’ letter diagrams
westerly wheezes
dazes in a floral chain
rabbit with a gun

diametric diaphragms
firefly friezes
gibbons on a lizard brain
underneath the sun

hypnotists ‘n’ holograms
hopes ‘n’ smoked cheeses
wobbles on a cobbled lane
icing on a bun

logarithmic monograms
pantomime pleases
porpoises in pouring rain
twiddle’s fiddle-dum

iridescent pentagrams
peppermint sneezes
operation paper plane
rivers on the run

telepathic telegrams
bumblebee breezes
bonce upon a once again
quill the deed is done
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first love

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first love ( evol tsrif )

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licking her out
under oak tree boughs
of a sunny afternoon

walking in the park
with her in my hand
by the brass bandstand

supping as she drips
in the sweet heat here
on the promenade / pier

sauce & toppings too
butterscotch & ground nuts
oh, my dream, ice cream
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snippet & stick it

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snippet & stick it ( ti kcits & teppins )

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see how they rhumba

rousing thunder clouds

      three blind minah birds

      mayfly myrmidons

swans upon swansongs

once upon a wanderlust

      dusting a feather

      in the whether of the knot

morris men in mirror lands

magnetic maps

      six in the mourning

      weeping onion tears

myrrh in this murmur

stroking the weird

      of a billy goat’s beard

      floating over clover

here be the rubber match

lick another tongue twist

      stick with the twigs

      in the riddle of a wood

hooded like a robin

hiding in the ivy

      may contain nutmeg

      guess the restless rest

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