jacket pocket

~

jacket pocket  (  a  p o e m  /  a  l i s t  )


a carrier pigeon

& charger - adapter

a tisket, a ticket

a genie

reciepts


a petal of blossom

an ombudsman's uncle

the clang of a pin drop

a bee in

the breeze


the noon of last tuesday

a garden in darkeness

an apple, a chapel

a scrumple

of sheets


the battle of flanders

& nessy & yeti

a pebble, a pencil

a handkerchief

- keys

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tsol meop

~

tsol meop  (  a  p o e m  o f  m i s s i n g  t h i n g s  )




dockets in pockets, a vole in the head

warbles of wallets & balls of the thread

locks in the locket or cats up a tree

thrashings at matches & flaps in the red


tingling teasels, an inkling of hay

spindling needles & sun on the day

spun of a sputter as kingdoms of keys

sleep in the aether & pigeon of clay


bricks of a fourth wall, a scrawl in the scribes

slipping in shortfalls as roundabout slides

down as the trousers or scuttles at sea

singing in whispers of giants & tribes


bundling parcels - a garden or two

mumbling marbles in spew of a clue

mist in the mizzle on riddling screes

music in gargles, a sparkle & ewe

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j nests in woodland

~

j nests in woodland  (  a  g o o d  i d e a  a t  t h e  t i m e  ,  s o z  )





jackdaw jacobites

juggle jam jar juggernauts

jumbo jungle jets


jumbo jungle jets

jibber jackal japanese

jinxing jutland's june


jinxing jutland's june

jumping judas javelins

jasmine jamborees


jasmine jamborees

jiving jaundice jupiter

jackdaw jacobites

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ekaw pu

~

ekaw pu  (  a  p o e m  &  t h a t ‘ s  t h a t  )



babylon's buggered as bugles have blown

up in a bubble & toodle's the ooze

sodom is rogered - the rooster has flow

cockerels in 'copters & buttons on snooze


london is sunken as avalon's toast

tossed in a salad & tingle's the tongue

onions are pickled from pillock to post

topple's the ladder & adder's the rung


reverie's aether as easter is dead

fucked in the bonnet & sonnet's the song

weathering weavers when pencils are lead

licks in the letters & yonder - the swan


bobs on the lochan as comets are seen

singing of scissor & stars in the charts

turning in circles & hops in the bean

ripples in rivers & kicks up the arse

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yodel with pheasants

~

yodel with pheasants  (  a  p l a n  /  n o n r i c k  f o r  t h e  p i c  )





the tenant is peasant & swollen nodes

as lemon's the segment in robes of toads

& wither's the windmill

so hit the hills

& yodel with pheasants on roman roads

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jungles swing the mumbles

~

jungles swing the mumbles  (  a  t r u e  t a l e  )



extras, spectres

zebras stripe the tigers

leaches, screeches

leopards spot the frogs


dangles, scrambles

buzzes, bugs & spiders

horses, courses

water, warts 'n' hogs


blisters, sisters

mizzle mists the yonder

thunder, hungers

simmer sings the ode


carrots, parrots

slither anaconda

forest, forage

stop & lick a toad


balmy, barmy

army ants are marching

nifty, swiftly

fifty hundred legs


tardy, snarly

canopies are barking

tipsy pixies

pygmies hunt for heads


orchid, florid

jungles swing the mumbles

lemurs, creepers

tingles ping the spine


wriggles, jiggles

gibbon on in jumbles

fiddles, scribbles

winging vine to vine

...










(  a u t h o r  n o d e s  )

this poem is set in the generic-amalgam jungle

hence the mishmash of different animals

from different continents

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back on the sheets

~

back on the sheets  (  a  p o e t i c a l  e s s a y  )




badger's the clatter as scatter's the sen

pigs in the scribble & fiddle's the ink

natter's the nutter as flutter's the wren

fish in the swishes & dishes in sinks

ripple's the river as rumble's the sky

gash in the attic & plastic's the dawn

buggers in bumbles as puddle's the spry

beige in the cages as pages are torn

scrawls of a morning & aether's the noon

flaps as a bastard as tapestries weave

chatter's the wanker & natter's the loon

storms in a tosser as yonder the eve

buzzes in bonnets as sunken's the sun

fuck in the on it as sonnets are scum

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( a u t h o r  n o d e s  )


i hate sonnets

i despise their as-snug-as-a-bug-in-a-rug smugness

which can only be twatty

so i'm glad this went to pot

like what all the others do

...