~
insomnia & out the other ( rehto eht tuo & ainmosni )
…
bobbing on a hilltop
sober as a gnome
roving under twinkles
drinking milky tealights
see the bright of cat’s eyes
rabbits, voids & plasmoids
eating after eight mints
at three-oh-three a.m
then, beneath the moonbeams
catching luna’s ray daze
swimming silver pastures
( grasses pass as seaweed )
up before the early birds
up before the worms
up before aurora
larking in the dark
…
~
light lunch ( hcnul thgil )
…
a firefly shines
in the gloop
of my soup
…
~
clodhopping song ( gnos gnippohdplc )
…
drumming on the mud
rat-a-splat & fiddlesticks
spits a rhythmic thud
plodding of a morn
like the duke of wellington
milk a sopping lawn
kicking sods of turf
sticks & stones & rabbit bones
off the skin of earth
stomping on the leas
nincompoops in blucher boots
as the mizzle pees
prancing in the mist
scrambles as an alibi
scratching something’s gist
dancing on the ground
as the rub of so bellow
murmurs gurgled sound
…
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balaclava – baklava ( avalkab – avalcalab )
…
as the clouds are howling by
in the rabid autumn sky
& the chills are frisking me
grill an owl or dictionary
sings a swan within the brain
quibbles quizzing on again
balaclava – baklava
how i wonder what you are?
~
one’s a sort of woollen mask
from a battle, since you ask
born in eighteen fifty four
in the great crimean war
& the other is a treat
filled with nuts & honey sweet
baked with layered filo – so
that’s the difference, now you know
…
~
in a month of mondays ( syadnom fo htnom a ni )
…
calendars & contours
colanders in kitchen sinks
swans are singing encores
once upon the sequels
gleams the green of in between
snoring with the eagles
pour another tea cup
buttered toast & traffic jam
so the stuttered speak up
storming of a morning
mares within the air & hare
where the stagger’s fawning
anoraks & sun rays
ambles on an ashen path
in a month of mondays
scrambles at the deep end
badgers in the thicket’s thatch
tangled ’til the weekend
…
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cloven hoofed yoofs ( sfooy defooh nevolc )
…
have you herd the one
about the gangs of cows?
cloven hoofed yoofs
clad in shellsuits
sniffing super glue
marker pens & tipex
skiving off from school
larking in them leas
knocking fences down
patting yon allotments
drinking booze from town
chasing great dane bitches
labradors & spaniels
pugs & humans too
gobbing on badgers
pissing on the footpaths
swagger walk & bugger
all before the slaughter
on the road to death
– what a load of bullocks
…
~
sternutation in a major ( rajom a ni noitatunrets )
…
the bandleader blows
his trombone nose
& sneezes bars
of marching brass
…
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bonfire ( erifnob )
…
build with sticks – not stones
bits ‘n’ birch & branch of oak
last summer’s ragwort
brambles, bobs ‘n’ twigs
scrumpled sheets of poetry
nettles & regrets
leaves & sheeple masks
letters from the government
thorns of thicket’s thatch
with a guy atop
effigies of enemies
weasels run the whirled
check for hedgehogs first
badgers, owls & barrels of
rum – or gunpowder
if the ghost is clear
in the darkened garden’s blear
– spark that mother’ up
…
~
o c t o b e r e s q u e ( e u q s e r e b o t c o )
…
once september’s snuffed it
crosses on a calendar
then the wraiths awaken
of a flighty swansong
bogs become the pastures
ermine cloaks a stoat
rhyme is roundabouts
every leaf’s a flower – too
spring is in antartica
quaggas mare the air
unicorns & mastodons
evening crawls in darkness
…
~
weather or knot ( tonk ro rehtaew )
…
a cloaking, crawling dawn
with croaking hints of frog
misting midland mills
wales is silken veils
of shifting, shrouding cloud
& phantom tangent fog
as sneezing scotland coughs
the peas in london’s broth
but breezes weave by nine
– the west’s a stringing vest
& cats & dogs will piss
upon the realms of men
from looe to timbuktu
until the afternoon
the rest ‘s a shining spell
– as satellites foretell
…
resarf poetry 