radishes & raspberries

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radishes & raspberries  (  a  p o e m  )

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radishes & raspberries

cabbages & cavalry

horsing on

in snort & swan

canter clops & basketry


freckled specks & friaries

pheasant peck & spidery

phantom scrawls

on tattered walls

in the inns & libraries


twiddle toes & rosemary

ribulose & groceries

ticking lists

in mists of wisp

ants in pants & hosiery


adder tongues & alchemy

ladder rungs & rhapsody

clanging bells

in wells & spells

forest floors & canopies


sunken suns & tumbleweed

drunken nuns & bumblebees

buzzing by

in buzzard skies

bubble burst & summer breeze


colonnades & colonies

orangeade & socrates

scratching heads

& snatching veg

podded peas & broccoli


lemon tea & leprosy

levity & sesame

cracking safes

& smashing plates

eccles cakes & melody


otter toss & blackberries

totters off & tapestries

weaving yarns

in sleeping barns

sneezing stars & galaxies

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the puzzle shooter

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the puzzle shooter  (  a  p o e m  )

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parapets & paratroopers

parrots pecking speckled roosters

onion rings & solar saturn

pupils swat the ogre tutor


penguin suits & twinkled pewter

tudors smocking wrinkled suitors

battle ships & phantom caverns

dragons snap the shattered rulers


pepper pots & barracudas

puffins tooting stolen scooters

knotted vests & battered taverns

badgers blast the silver tuba


snorkel snorts & sunken scuba

drunken tinkers trawling sewers

pitta bread & splattered patterns

settle sings the puzzle shooter

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on the beans again

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on the beans again  (  a  p o e m  )

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hedge head

frog socks

clip claps the trot

of a phantom fox


bus bug

tin night

dim dips the sprite

of a candlelight


shrub throb

cat fawn

dog daze the map

of a mudflap morn


tree fly

flow thumb

i spell the flood

of an english spun

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nature scrawls

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nature scrawls  (  y a p p y  h e w  n e a r  )

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spell, tall toads tweed to gnome

or snow the slaying sloes

yet snare's no plaice pike dome

snow i swallow my rose


& squander swan i foam

to bear? i shrew snot blow

to gnome knot i - snore dome

i glow glare cheeses glow

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where the ghost is

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where the ghost is  (  a  p o e m  )

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otter socks & cod osmosis

apples pipping doctor doses

triple steps & pepper pickles

winter's warring frozen roses


twinkle toes & frog thrpombosis

bushes burning bramble moses

scramble hedge & thistle prickles

lemons licking toad trombonists


puddle pox & elf hypnosis

garbles splashing garden hoses

marble glass & ripple spittle

bubbles blowing swollen gnosis


scatter runes & roman noses

saxons tokin' y'olden roaches

golden plum & mizzle drizzle

gloam is glaring where the ghost is

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