same time next year?

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same time next year?  (  l i s t – p o e m  )


foxgloves

gloves for foxes

maelstroms

beetroot soup


borscht force

seven letters

cat naps

vultures swoop


crow nose

feral fennel

lute newt

chicken coup


umpire

crystal scrying

sneeze fit

nincompoop


crumble

dust & custard

skin flaps

paratroop


bugles

cornish cornets

maidens

cock-a-hoop


green grass

cricket pitches

moon noon

pheasant poop


peach breeze

wake in whispers

may then

swan a loop

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thunder stuff

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thunder stuff  (  a  p o e m  )



marble arch, stomach march

snapdragons & saturdays


pillar post, interpose

wizards zapping manta rays


kettle song, echelon

whistle ripple windermere


unicorns, cuneiform

drumming in the inner-ear


everest, emirate

crackles in the attic's beams


chequered dog, shepherd frog

clatters of the magic beans


symphony, river scree

ruffles on a blunderbuss


buttercup, uppercut

mumbles of the thunder stuff

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whitsun’s children

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whitsun’s children  (  p o e m z )



buttercup fingers

clutching at green straws

plasters & pastures

snakes in the hay


tangles in brambles

spin on a hillock

glue of the goosegrass

stick in the step


born on a picnic

twinned with the polecat

castor & pollux

bollocks et al


sting in the nettles

bruises & bat flaps

flutter as pencils

quill in the gaps

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a glide with bee

~

a glide with bee  (  h e r e ‘ s  o n e  i  m a d e  e a r l i e r  )




a glide with bee, bat scrawls - the eben lied

the parsnip beacons gourd with bee a glide

hen rubber helter whale - sand kumquats scree

elf opera skelter crow, a glide with bee


whipped skewiffs glow red grouse, brine river bay

girth's noise snow hymn piss tories gas ashtray

mange manta ray spin squalls - a drowned diary

snow plough screw anus knot - a glide with bee


eye ear nose toe - chimney, backhand screw press

quill panto eight gland gears blow bittern dress

pear fizz festing? snare wave, pie pillory

sky phylum krill, cliff cow - a glide with bee


old sow thigh floss seasaw - rice soaking skies

haiku mushroom android emu disguise

stem stalking crakes ant turn train shadow's scree

pinstripe, insect - blowtorch - a glide with bee

( a glide with bee, a glide with bee )

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scribbles in a piddle pad

~

scribbles in a piddle pad  (  s o m e  r h y m e s  )



river swish & liquorice

swans upon a gurning curve

interstellar sausages

thunder in the undergrad


dynamite & cyanide

marbles of a souper star

singing songs of podded peas

spartans claid in tartan's plaid


roman nose & overflows

tutor to the tudor rose

shepherd of the sceptred vale

chasing tails of galahad


dictionaries & dignitaries

muffles on a puddle morn

memories of celery

scribbles in a piddle pad

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pear weather fiend

~

pear weather fiend  (  a  p o e m  )





in autumn's squall as woodland frog

& mizzle cysts upon a breeze

we apple on a bramble path

& glisten as the forests frieze


in squinter's spin - the dog & i

sea squander in the blizzard's boar

as darkness barks a snarling gnarl

& tossers hive behind cloned doors


in vernal spring as birbles ping

of blossoming & wormer daze

pea potter in the pastor's grass

as otters chafe the frost away


then summer spoons in blue balloons

with leprosy & feathers preened

& homely bear & hen - it's ewe

but hare were you, pear weather fiend

( ? )

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