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alternative names for frost ( tsorf rof seman evitanretla )
…
underfoot’s crunch stuff
jack’s magic sugar-dust
puddle toughener
…
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alternative names for frost ( tsorf rof seman evitanretla )
…
underfoot’s crunch stuff
jack’s magic sugar-dust
puddle toughener
…
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secret code – secrete cod ( doc eterces – edoc terces )
…
bury fear in february
find the charm in march
& emit time
flowing in wolf gin
seek the lows in owls
spud war & upwards
clod us in clouds
reach for stars or tsars
spinning so in sinning sop
breathing in giant herb
ogle v in glove
see the vole in love
oscillate those lilac toes
santa & satan
live life like an anagram
or
a rag man
…
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yet in eleven ( nevele ni tey )
…
grapevines
violins
voodoo
blu tack
blackbirds
bursaries
mermaids
myrmidons
myrtle
meteoric
murmurations
…
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actual pan sexual ( lauxes nap lautca )
…
he of hoofs ‘n’ horns
pan, the green man goosing nymphs
rutting in the woods
…
( author notes )
dear attention seeking brats / rainbow gestapo
this is not shit-posting
just some harmless wordplay
so calm down
…
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we made the moon ( noom eht edam ew )
…
we lit the sun
with matches & straw
on whitsun
eighteen eighty four
my, what a sight
flaming ball of light
a lantern
after shafts of night
we peed the seas
mixing pop with tea
& coffee
– a cacophony
’til oceans flowed
where land disappeared
sages swear
stroking floating beards
we made the moon
with cheeses & glue
in april
nineteen ninety two
probably the first
before midday
that was all us
– or so we like to say
…
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couplets runneth over ( revo htennur stelpuoc )
…
scribble piffle pen
peck a rubber hen
pick a pepper pot
hare the ware’s of what
where the air is green
bouncing like a bean
sound in endless daze
chasing laser rays
buzzing in the night
bee the speed of light
badger up a hill
with a feathered quill
bother all the crows
fill the blanks of prose
prance a wanker dance
hornets in y’ pants
pantomime away
in the pissing grey
’til the circuit’s juiced
as the normalzzz boost
knickers in a spin?
– lick minerva’s chin
scribble piffle pen
peck a rubber hen
…
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bluster merry field ( dleif yrrem retsulb )
…
custard powder clouds
clover croaks, the morning notes
a shrew in your shoes
…
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brass monkey weather ( rehtaew yeknom ssarb )
…
metal marmosets
lark in a polar vortex
when the snow goes nuts
…
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goodnight spool world ( dlrow loops thgindoog )
…
scribble drips ‘n’ drops
dribble drops ‘n’ drips
pencil cases, rubbers, races
chasing paperclips
piddle pens ‘n’ pads
paddle pads ‘n’ pens
pleasant peasants picking peppers
pheasants pecking hens
plodding queues ‘n’ peas
podding peas ‘n’ queues
rabid badgers, bat ‘n’ quaggas
shrews in dancing shoes
hobble hops ‘n’ skips
wobble skips ‘n’ hops
thicket sticking, tangled brambles
shitting in a copse
running ups ‘n’ downs
coming downs ‘n’ ups
feathered weather, flutter fingers
spreading butter cups
prudent suns ‘n’ moons
mutant moons ‘n’ suns
yawning orblet’s, phantom plasma
zapping laser guns
killing time ‘n’ tea
spilling tea ‘n’ time
fading places, ticking faces
froglets boxing rhyme
speeding streams ‘n’ brains
steaming brains ‘n’ streams
betty swollocks chatters bollocks
’til the gland of dreams
…
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december’s anti-checklist ( tsilkcehc-itna s’rebmeced )
…
an absence of bees
hornets & fleas
unseen, catalogued
& dutifully un-noted
not a swallow swoops
nor a swift swishes
as we pause & sneeze
under leafless trees
skin a shade of ghost
un-stung by nettles
blanker than a cheque
lifeless like a high street
with its faux-snow sprayed
over shop windows
muzzled folk inside
spot their smileless eyes
missing like a clue
mister pavlov’s dogs
drooling for the bell
not the juicy steak
where the air is listless
all’s the so of what
see december un-pen
ticking not a jot
…