Poems

the gift that keeps on shitting

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the gift that keeps on shitting ( gnittihs no speek taht tfig eht )

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rain pisses down

like another love sonnet

bees are sleeping zees

beats within me bonnet

drum but with a plum

not aplomb – but a fruit

legs are standing stones

gravel in me boots

pens keep running ou

muses on sabbaticals

time slides sideways

facing the greys

phantom ballads fade

salad in a maze-daze

home is pickled onions

hope is pebble dashed

air stagnates like

stare-offs with walls

one magpie

in the corner of your eye

lockdowns forever

cry compromised clowns

& all the leper-dodgers

in the mask brigade concur

( huhray )

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upon defining snow

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upon defining snow ( wons gninifed nopu )

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the real flake news

flutters from above

balls that never bounce

a gift & a hazard

falling from clouds

midwinter rain

sighten mine eyes

sores before the thaw

pairing with hares

sheets upon the pastures

sheep under cover

shades of hyperborea

here in the still

it’s heaven on worms

a dusting again

the spawn of a blizzard

the fresh fleshed bones

of abominable men

rhymer of crow

& ipso fatso

white just like ermine

but tangy if yellow

crystalline kisses

the dandruff of the gods

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upon defining rain

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upon defining rain ( niar gninifed nopu )

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brother of drizzle
& the cousin of mizzle
the lover of mud

prince of the puddles
a present from the high seas
sky father lather

bane of the plains
the sound of cloudbursts spurting
& sputtering gutters

cloven hooven tunes
music in trench foot tempos
clopping on the roofs

wet from the welkin
symphonies in welly boots
for ghouls in cagoules

fodder for the bogs
from the kingdom of the frogs
the piss of the gods
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hear in the chatters

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hear in the chatters ( srettahc eht ni raeh )

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breezes is wheezes, a cheeses – achoo

she of the dingle is pickling eggs

sneezes, trapezes – a loosening shrew

vinegar vixen, the underling smegs

smudges is fudges, a budgerigar

blizzarding wizards, a slithering deep

farting a parsnip if nearer is far

singing is spinning, the springing is sleep

hear in the chatters, a whispering shout

choruses walrus, a badgering bat

sun in the distance is smoking a trout

focus is frozen – the ballad is shat

fuck it is buckets, the gnosis is gnome

off is an otter & waffling home

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jan

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jan ( naj )

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belling back before the end
knelling after what’s before
singing swans beyond the bend
turn the tumble turnip door

wander in a ringing wood
walk a thawing frosted path
hat beneath a robin’s hood
as the phantom badgers laugh

& the shatting branches bare
bugger all but mossen bark
scatters in the whisper air
spring’s a dither’s distant lark

learn another broken code
sodding resolutions spool
hymn an ancient infant’s ode
all is nought – the plodding fool

spot the mackerel mottled sky
burn the tinsel christmas tree
cross another scrying i
dot another brewing t

pissing storming scribbled ink
’til the mutant rhyme is done
sinking in this drooping think
rising like the yawning sun
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