Poems

bob on

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bob on ( no bob )

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spectred headless horseman

trot a haunted moor

      swans upon a duck pond

      sylph the mists of spring

drifting bits of branches

float atop the ocean

      bees within a wonky breeze

      weaving of an eve

swirling with the dervish

spinning on a shilling

      sunken suns a’dawning

      balls & all is yawning

i upon a snaking lane

songs within my pockets

      like a dog upon a seesaw

      nodding with your uncle

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another bloody late may list poem

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another bloody late may list poem ( meop tsil yam etal yfoolb rehtona )

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shoelaces untied

goosegrass rashes

two blue unicorns

spotted on this morning’s walk

ladybirds & maidenflies

snapdragon crackles

pollen on a sneezing breeze

ants in the pants

of the dozing dog roses

hedgehogs & hemlock

foxtrotting foxgloves

pan’s on the catnip

packed are the parklands

– bloody part timers

swimming shorts – under shorts

almond milk in the fridge

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( author notes )

anyone who says that lists aren’t poems
is a bullshitting fuckwit
& an ignorant cock rash
–
lists have been part of poetry since at least
the catalogue of ships
in the iliad
–
so blame homer
& piss off
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calling all …

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calling all … (  … lla gnillac  )

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calling all librans
with holes in their pockets
gemini jedis
& capricorn cats
spinsters in season
plus spaniels with rabies
borderline collies
& lollipop ladies
calling all sailors
the tinkering tailors
yodelling yokels
& sad gladiators
leopards & lepers
the elves of the forest
towering midgets
& flowering florists
calling all bankers
the butchers & wankers
media weasels
& lizard police
pig politicians
& squinting opticians
poltergeist mime troupes
& shrews with the blues
calling all pheasants
the swifts & the swallows
jack in the greenswards
& frost of the hollows
piss potting poets
the nymphs of the water
with no pref-err-ence
or particular order
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run with the river

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run with the river  ( revir eht htiw nur  )
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run with the river
      ripples ‘n’ rushes
      gasses ‘n’ gushes
swimming the blither
swimming the blither
      blathering boaters
      under the overs
posting a pillar
posting a pillar
      poking the burbles
      shaping in circles
snaking a slither
snaking a slither
      swirling in circuits
      sunder a surface
enter the mirror
enter the mirror
      blethering letters
      pickle the peppers
outing the inner
outing the inner
      eider the downers
      fly with the flounders
run with the river
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psychopomp & circumstance

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psychopomp & circumstance  ( ecantsmucric & pompohcysp )

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i’ve seen you since i.c.u

jackdaw of this yawning’s walk

caw a morning’s sylphid lea

bobbing in aurora’s mist

 

pigeon on the garden fence

chatterings of chaffinches

swishing swifts once camlann snatched

bouncing black like arthur’s chough

 

roundabouts & owl again

signets sing of saturn’s rings

as a hatchling winter wren

struts the stuff of pheasant legs

 

warble with the choral calls

chuckles under second suns

flapping neath the even’s eves

curlew as the curfew flags

 

lapwing laughing overhead

sights in flight for sleepless eyes

‘pon a roving afternoon’s

feathered haze of yester-daze

 

nightingale of waxing moons

speckled sparrow shadow man

psychopomp & circumstance

nimble winged since breath bent left

 

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( author notes )

according to some cornish variations of the arthurian legends

( i am ) arthur, king of the britons

became a red-billed chough after the battle of camlann went a bit pear shaped

p.s

the title / line 23 is just a shit elgar pun

… so there …

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emit ginllik

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emit ginllik ( killing time )

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susan screw
unbuckled a shoe
      steven bland
      turned glass into sand
niamh flopflip
put a bottle in a ship
      imran chroma
      woke in a coma
christingle quartan
blossomed in autumn
      richard of yawns
      fell on his horse
helga hornet-nest
unscrambled eggs
      pete peking man
      sealed worms in a can
mick moore-least
saw the sun set in the east
      pandora pox
      stuffed her tumult in a box
antoine swan
un-sang songs
      as craig grey-sweat
      watched paint wet
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staggerings

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staggerings  (  sgnireggats  )

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replaying tape-looped

lacerated overtures

      scatter saturnalia

      i see unicorns

trains & satellites

space-time cul-de-sacs

      deep blue inbetween

      black dawn choruses

undone underling

late spring’s stinging tails

      snakes & scorpions

      seesaw seasoning

glow ghost manuscripts

pin drop passages

      let’s bee, avenues

      bean green death

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