Poem

a friend is strange

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a friend is strange by  32 lines of rhymes

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a friend is strange

as blue moonlight

or yellow door

all painted white


then tartan paint

a rusty key

hidden within

a wych elm tree


a tardy book

actual dog ears

or ball lightning

chinese new year


in mid-july

as herons strut

that phantom hand

a head with bumps


not bumpy head

some afternoons

or forks in roads

runcible spoons


those bus spotters

they shun the train

them pyramids

our reptile brain


most freak weather

or odd shaped rocks

the mystery

of missing flocks


no ewes or clues

so round the bend

go fuck knows us

that's why we're friends

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chattering distant whispers

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chattering distant whispers by 40 seconds of your life taken forever

( if you read this )

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( i'm )

listening to chattering distant whispers

carried far

from overseas


on my left heel is an irksome blister

still i stand

it stops not me


( i'm )

listening to chattering distant whispers

tucked away

within the breeze


they talk of walls

& the thoughts of confucius

so presumably these whispers

were originally chinese

( ? )

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i am an inflatable man

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i am inflatable man

by 20 lines of 8/8/5/5/8 syllables with line 2 rhyming with line 5 times 4 read

( simples )

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i am an inflatable man

yes - just like a tyre or a chair

or sort-of dinghy

thingamijiggy

so just pump us up with some air


we stick like glue to our own kind

aye - my wife is a blow-up doll

our children: balloons

with faces like moons

but we too have hearts, minds & souls


these things aint debatable man

oh no - so don't be so stroppy

sometimes i'm punctured

there's a hole somewhere

then i wilt & go all floppy


i am an inflatable man

yet nevertheless i'm a man

we're just like you but

struggle in high winds

so please accept us if you can

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good morning?

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good morning? by 48 syllables in 16 lines of 3 syllabes per-line read

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good morning?

dunno yet

it's early

i'm well-slept


the sunshine

is present

the air here

is clement


it should be

it could turn

with dark clouds

then things burn


then mayhem

& end times

a maybe

'should be fine

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i’ve got loadsa poemz

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i’ve got loadsa poemz by 34.7 second read ( tops mate, tops )

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i've got loadsa poemz

but they're just titles

awaiting verses

( just ) waiting for words

to spring forth like springed things

out from the ether

maybe the other

a sudden burst


i can't be arsed now &

i did the first bit

come on ye muses

don't be so shy

pull your fingers out loves

or it aint teamwork

or does the word team

now have

an i

( ? )

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