photography

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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picnic in the rain

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picnic in the rain ( nair eht ni cincip )

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shiver on a bench
bathing in a sunless grey
bask in britain’s drench

as the stratus gush
buckets on this darkened park
bread is formless mush

sandwiches collapse
like a castle on the beach
as the tide attacks

cirrus rat-a-tat
spilleth cups of former fizz
lemonade is flat

crisps have lost their crunch
where the piss is pounding down
sodden is this lunch

still the river roars
run before it eats us all
bugger off indoors
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a u g u s t

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a u g u s t ( t s u g u a )

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a pples tumble down

   another summer stumbles

   ants soar above us

u nder shrouds of cloud

    ushering a hawthorn hue

    unicorns weeping

g reen is greengages

   gourdish hordes of cucumbers

   grass is golden bales

u mber is the sun

   until september nestles

   upon these thistles

s he will sneeze again

   swooping on the prickled fools

   soothsayers say so

t oads rain by teatime

   tomorrow pokes a wasp hive

   tossers scribble on

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oh, what the folk?

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oh, what the folk? ( ?klof eht tahw ,ho )

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strumming the death of a legend
humming the rub of a bee
swigging a flagon of bitter
dumming the diddle in dee

roving the inns & the taverns
sleeping in stables & barns
hay in a feeder f’ breakfast
gold as the y’old in y’ yarns

rhyming the life of a wrong’un
lovers in peril & doom
farmers in lieu of a harvest
misery, merriment, gloom

jiggle the gist of a riddle
stroking the goat of a chin
stringing a cat with a fiddle
never ‘pon the violin

dressed as the ghost of a ploughman
bother the north & the south
prancing the pastures of midlands
straw in the side of y’ mouth

mincing along as a minstrel
under a trad-anon sun
scratching the balls of a ballad
oh, what the folk have y’ done?
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