Poetry

silent start

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silent start ( trats tnelis )

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dawn mimes a yawn

see with subtitles

      unplug headphones

      speakers unspeak

float as a stoat

in a magic dream coat

      walk with the paws

      of a feline ninja

note like a book

then with a pen

      phantom g in gnarl

      secret p in ptarmigan

double u in whore

all is before

      back from the past

      fruitful is a future

statues snooze

so gnostic gnomes

      twist knight knickers

      wrens wriggle then

clouds unshroud

owls count sheep

      in the mizzle’s creep

      when poltergeists sleep

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as the saying glows

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as the saying glows ( dwolg gniyas eht sa )

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middle of the mourning


riddle of the night


light the good flight


clutching at strawberries


as the saying glows


with buttercup fingers


may contain nutmeg


speak when spoken tulips


you shut your goblin


little so & soy


do you feel the lovage?


too many cuckoos


soil the broth

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sound & schism

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sound & schism ( msihcs & dnuos )

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dead is yester’s year
hecatombs of human meat
meet the fading here

with a mouthless grin
gormless calls & normalzzz falls
tumbles down & in

lo, the rabid bark
science & psychosis wed
lark beyond this dark

hark, the distant strings
underwater but above
note the folk of rings

as the goblins stir
serpents sleep neath compost heaps
with a lion’s purr

while the woodland weeps
like an onion farmer’s cock
still this even’ creeps

sing another’s day
multiversal mirror lands
dancing with the fae

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squall it all

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squall it all ( lla ti llauqs )

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& penguin biscuits

tigers in a sherman tank

penpals ‘n’ pencils

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penpals ‘n’ pencils

chequered like a microphone

testing sound with chess

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testing sound with chess

bouncing like sir barnes wallis

on a wallaby

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on a wallaby

watching queen nefertiti

smoking mackerel skies

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smoking mackerel skies

wickets in the thicket stick

so the even weaves

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so the even weaves

with these peppermint tea leaves

& penguin biscuits

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as the gob of autumn yawns

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as the gob of autumn yawns ( snway nmutua fo bog eht sa )

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night is creeping, spot the crook
blacker than a sooted rook
burning on as if a book

cancelled like a harmless joke
fire flaps with arms of smoke
fogging forth, the pasture’s cloak

bugger me – the morning spawns
stagger yon & polish horns
as the gob of autumn yawns

death’s anew in olden blues
bushes gurning, turning shrews
green is gleaming golden hues

scree’s the hordes of falling leaves
tapestries, this season weaves
all is balls & summer heaves

huffs another fuck it then
pisses off beyond the glen
floating when the poets pen
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quizzical responses

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quizzical responses ( sesnopser lacizzuiq )

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starter for ten pence

phobus & deimos

marxists united

bend the knee f.c

e-flat minor

marjoram & tarragon

catherine of aragon

pickled eggheads

glass man syndrome

seven red herrings

antlers on a postcard

someone call the coastguard

mint choc-chipmunk

troughs upon upland

fingers on the buzzard

& the babble of jutland

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us organics

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us organics ( scinsgro su )

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us organics
sing beyond the swan
bats in the belfry
is healthier than bots

fuck that magic
darker than the crack
of a shadow man’s arse
or the ashes of a crow

us organics
us true humanoids
not masked cattle
or reductionist androids

pan not panic
laughter in the wood
pole shifts twisting
unloosened shrews

us organics
see the rhyme of time
in one-way train rides
to old normal borstal

as per ghouls
& jobsworths in jackboots
gulags looming
like a furry in an nursery
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rivers on the run

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rivers on the run ( nur eht no srevir )

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live ‘n’ letter diagrams
westerly wheezes
dazes in a floral chain
rabbit with a gun

diametric diaphragms
firefly friezes
gibbons on a lizard brain
underneath the sun

hypnotists ‘n’ holograms
hopes ‘n’ smoked cheeses
wobbles on a cobbled lane
icing on a bun

logarithmic monograms
pantomime pleases
porpoises in pouring rain
twiddle’s fiddle-dum

iridescent pentagrams
peppermint sneezes
operation paper plane
rivers on the run

telepathic telegrams
bumblebee breezes
bonce upon a once again
quill the deed is done
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