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tips for a budding poet ( teop gniddub a rof spit )
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smoke green trees but drink only tea walk beneath the moon's beams but hide from the sunshine sleep if awake to awaken from sleep sport a cravat ( this can double as a napkin ) ink with a feather on a sheet of papyrus talk with the animals but steer clear of people write all morning then doss all afternoon eat a high fibre diet with plenty of prunes ...
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behind the blinds ( sdnilb eht dniheb )
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behind the blinds, the blinds of blue
a shade the shade of shadeless shite
a scribble scrawls a line or two
a portal calls, a door of snorts
the hinges creak & snort in squeaks
a burst of birds, the splurge of thoughts
the chattering is back again
a caber toss of jollop's jape
a smattering of acid rain
beneath the sun, a couplet druns
the trah-luh-lars of handlebars
the fiddle dum of thumbs & crumbs
within a mist - a slip of tea
a storm the scent of peppermint
the stumble stuff of bumble me
as dawn's a yawn & all is pants
the parallax of paper plain
a pantomime, a dive, a dance
a pen, a pad, a wonky desk
a donkey on a thistled lea
the lottery of poemesque
so spiral then, the bends & winds
a broken biscuit symphony
the sound of down - behind the blinds
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sway it with flowers ( srewolf htiw ti yaws )
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drinking buttercups
of sweet pea tea
while the dog sun rose
& roared - like a dandelion
( over & clover )
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wind chime witches ( sehctiw emihc dniw )
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wind chime witches
ringing in the evening sneeze
rhyming with the air
willow wizards
wands upon a gloaming dusk
pick the plum & pear
wholewheat ear seers
bark beneath a harvest sun
hum a drum & snare
damson druids
jamming 'til the speckled moon
rocks a rowan chair
mugwart warlocks
moxibustion cloaks of smoke
box the phantom hare
pea green priestess
august in your knicker drawer
autumn over there
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radishes & anoraks ( skarona & sehsidar )
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radishes & anoraks salad swings a babbleaxe ships upon a lunar sea sinking on in thinking caps cabbage trees & candle wax kangaroo the parallax otters in a glossary prosody in tractor tracks double ducks & rubber quacks shoo the shrew of dancing taps hymn the sing of aviaries maidens of the pavement's cracks galaxies & scattered maps walruses as walls collapse underling the oversee poetry with cataracts ...
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a sinking song ( gnos gniknis a )
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a sinking song, a creeping night the squall is balls & caterwauls a plumber in a vicarage a bed of bugs - the evenings bite the yawn is dew & dawn's a witch a vista hymns a mutant hue a daze the shade of pencil lead a host of crows, a brimming ditch within a wink, a blink, a nudge the toast is burnt & babylon an adder crawls - the pastures call with leaden legs - a sodden trudge upon a path, another page the breezes blow, an orchard snows & apples dance a reelsome eight a squirm of worms & fade to beige or thereabouts - the ups of down a splosh upon a puddle's pond the ripples of october's ghost a woodland in a gown of brown the cracks of black beyond the green the wheat is gold - this dream is old a roman nose, a saxon tongue an undercoat, a submarine the hobbled hymn of shrinking moons an ode upon a stool of toad a leaky lea of avalon the stuff of swans - brunhilda croons a canticle, the ding of dong the strut of ruts & stag along the mist of picts & pickle on within the mist - a sinking song ...
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musical glue gun ( nug eulg lacisum )
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musical glue gun
twigs are my lighters
sing in the woodland
this is a stick-up
bees on the breezes
ribs are marimbas
rumbles of thunder
snakes in the breaks
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birds in a notebook
worms in a cancan
dancing the ant stuff
up on a hillock
over the clover
this is the good sheet
bells in the dingle
knell in the spring
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weep with the onions
settle on petals
thistles & nettles
tuffets & trumpets
mizzle minerva
sulis is sunken
ballads & brambles
autumn & fall
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reeds in the marshes
parps in the garden
zephyrous zithers
plucking a string vest
pan in the pantry
blowing a crumpet
under a blue sun
- musical glue gun
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stick around ( dnuora kcits )
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sweat in the swelter stamps in the staggers jam on y' fingers caramel sun out with the insects playing with matches rumbles of thunder mumbles of drums up in the grey clouds down on the grass banks stockings on noggins robbing the river then in the gloaming pogo the pastures men of the woodland ('til something twigs ) ...
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up before the farmers
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up before the farmers on a sort of lark warble of a wander walking in the dark distant is the village lamps & candles burn grocers green are dozing vicars toss - & turn stars above are winking blink & twinkle so artemis is sparkles 'til the cockerels crow scramble up a hillock squawk upon a field ghosts within the gloaming whistle in a weald moths are butterflying sleeping are the bees phantoms on the pastures whispers in the trees bats upon the breezes scattered as the sky trudging in the sunless plod the dog & i howling with the owlets sing a badger hymn trotting with the foxes dancing in the dim up before the farmers on a sort of lark warble of a wander walking in the dark ...
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in the clear ( raelc eht ni )
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bubbles tickle tips of tongues on a wander from the shop sipping sups of ginger beer underneath a swarming orb in the pantaloons of noon on a bridge, above the weir toast the flow, the river roars mud as blood & howls of brown bucking beasts of water here bucket off beneath the blue satellites switch on the lights sunward strings the puppeteer in the dell - a knelling bell baas upon a breeze's sneeze tingles in the inner-ear oceans groan as swallows swish roses glow & phantoms dart martens, hark & swift a gear clouds unshroud & so an ode or a sort of warbled hymn in the clear of morning's blear spiders climb the drains again buttercup's the fuddled lane puddles shrink - & disappear ...
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