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august salad ( dalas tsugua )
…
buddleia burn
butterfly churn
church mouse trouser leg
beach towel owl
pie chart charlemagne
bargain bin sinbad
blackberry beret
ants in flying pants
sugar paper trail
goblin holiday
garden gnomes roaming
gobi aloo desert
carbonated penfriends
cartoon cartwheels
slowly, homeward lancelot
knights creeping in
outbound hourglass
money maker ketchup
marigold standard
carpal tunnel vision
oft on occasions
turning leafen tables
snakes in the loft
octavian’s moth
…
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beware the ragwort ( trowgar eht eraweb )
…
as seen in hedgerows
spreading on the pasture’s green
death’s yellow petals
…
~
while plums ripen ( nepir smulp elihw )
…
eat late strawberries
or early blackberries
in these changeling days
the arse end of july
hairy like a hare
or mrs slocombe’s pussy
note of the fallen
the long gone snowdrops
broad beans down
but the runners yet to come
clouds in the sky
spell the word – pareidolia
when we squint & tilt
our eyes & neck respectively
in between squeezes
in the tantalising orchard
still to hard
like your nan on nandrolone
huffing as we spot
kestrels catching flying ants
hurry up then, plums
we haven’t got all summer
cry the crumble bakers
& restless jam makers
…
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a pizza the puzzle ( elzzup eht azzip a )
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stuffed-crust crosswords
stone baked rubic’s cube
su-doku meat feast
mind-blown hawaiians
tongues tasting twisters
foggy margarita
ponders in the parlour
calzone anagrams
crptic french bread
patterns in the scatters
of the quizmaster’s toppings
four seasons’s jigsaw
…
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etc ( etc ) ( tce ) tce
…
eleven tanzanian chefs
eating tarantula cobwebs
english tinkers conga
estonian tailors clap
elbows turning clockwise
evening’s tide crawls
echoing toad croaks
every thursday comes
exorcising the curate
egging tomorrow’s codswallop
ending to continue
…
~
a snappy haiku ( ukiah yppans a )
…
two alligators
in matching suits & shoes too
running for the train
…
~
that’s a squid then ( neht diuqs a s’taht )
…
those pygmy krakens
going for a song & now
only one pound each
…
~
number two ( owt rebmun )
…
the quantum quack
of one little duck
is albarn’s woo-hoo
in a pair of goody shoes
where half of zero
or peas in a pea pod
if pennies or cents
are rubbing together
then double is nothing
ballerina desmond
cyphers crackle
turtle doves sing
tango takes
helium’s place
echoing back
like a magic mallard
blake realises
the old man is a thistle
twinned with mirror’s
like duality’s digit
geminis measure
the thickness of short planks
as a bactrian hump
is fibonacci’s dump
…
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the continuing adventures of betty swollocks ( skcollows ytteb fo serutnevda gniunitnoc eht )
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now’s the toast of roasting nuts
trousers whiffing more than guts
walking on a browning lea
formerly a shade of pea
dreaming of the gift of rain
bursting on a thirsting plain
droplets dripping from the bonce
sweating like an effing nonce
hunter group on telegram
knot a clue – the heavens slam
when the blue’s a hue of hell
wickets still – a stinking bell
wash again yet still she calls
singing songs of sodden balls
under heaving heaps of sky
she beneath is back in i
…
resarf poetry 