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beware the ragwort ( trowgar eht eraweb )

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as seen in hedgerows

spreading on the pasture’s green

death’s yellow petals

…

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a pizza the puzzle ( elzzup eht azzip a )

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stuffed-crust crosswords

stone baked rubic’s cube

su-doku meat feast

mind-blown hawaiians

tongues tasting twisters

foggy margarita

ponders in the parlour

calzone anagrams

crptic french bread

patterns in the scatters

of the quizmaster’s toppings

four seasons’s jigsaw

…

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etc ( etc ) ( tce ) tce

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eleven tanzanian chefs

eating tarantula cobwebs

english tinkers conga

estonian tailors clap

elbows turning clockwise

evening’s tide crawls

echoing toad croaks

every thursday comes

exorcising the curate

egging tomorrow’s codswallop

ending to continue

…

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a snappy haiku ( ukiah yppans a )

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two alligators

in matching suits & shoes too

running for the train

…

~

number two ( owt rebmun )

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the quantum quack
of one little duck

is albarn’s woo-hoo
in a pair of goody shoes

where half of zero
or peas in a pea pod

if pennies or cents
are rubbing together

then double is nothing
ballerina desmond

cyphers crackle
turtle doves sing

tango takes
helium’s place

echoing back
like a magic mallard

blake realises
the old man is a thistle

twinned with mirror’s
like duality’s digit

geminis measure
the thickness of short planks

as a bactrian hump
is fibonacci’s dump

…

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the continuing adventures of betty swollocks ( skcollows ytteb fo serutnevda gniunitnoc eht )

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now’s the toast of roasting nuts
trousers whiffing more than guts

walking on a browning lea
formerly a shade of pea

dreaming of the gift of rain
bursting on a thirsting plain

droplets dripping from the bonce
sweating like an effing nonce

hunter group on telegram
knot a clue – the heavens slam

when the blue’s a hue of hell
wickets still – a stinking bell

wash again yet still she calls
singing songs of sodden balls

under heaving heaps of sky
she beneath is back in i

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