( ? )

list forever

~

list forever  (  a  l i s t  )

…



eider waddles, waffle irons

pipers pipers, divers diving

cider goggles, song of sirens

miners hiding, diamonds hiding


seven blisters, lemon squeezers

maids-a-mapping, ravens flapping

melon twisters, leaden leaders

table tapping, paper dancing


apple crumbles, double-barrels

triple-dipping, scribble slipping

grapple-stumbles, bubble barrels

ninja kicking, scissor snipping


dungeon weather, feather dusters

fractal scaling, dragon slaying

sunken treasure, decks 'n' drummers

babble scraping, badgers aping


vista vicars, kipper suitors

winter cycles, kites-a-flying

wicker knickers, intercoolers

squinter spirals, eyes-a-spying


drunken ballads, salad tossers

river otters, spot o'shopping

jumps 'n' gallops, trots 'n' potters

mirror watchers, ticks-a-tocking


copper cauldrons, y'olden pheasants

cousin dozens, covens stirring

scrumple scrolls & golden peasants

button onions - ovens burning


rubber chickens, pissing weather

spittle kettles, kitchens sinking

pens-a-singing - list forever

stutter's dripping, missions inking

...

windmill invisible

~

windmill invisible  (  s l i p p a g e  &  s p i l l a g e  )

…



slither river squinter glaze

skittle skin & skein

zither scissor ninja maze

blister spleen & bean


speckle kettle marmalade

pebble spa & pan

nettle metal garden spade

marble man & clan


teasel weasel serenade

melon seed & stirred

easel diesel lemonade

feather blurred & bird


butter flutter rotorblade

rubber pluck & chord

nutter muffle motorcade

motherboard & fjord


tinker sailor tailor-made

paper vale & vole

sinker scalar caper raid

mater mole & scroll


alabaster hand grenade

tractor track & toad

adder ladder barricade

shatter load & ode

...

pissing rivers

~

pissing rivers  (  a  p o e m  )

…




spinning scribbles, pissing rivers

at the bottom of the deep

sinking kingdoms, swishing fishers

as the salmon hop & leap


ducking feathers, treading trundles

on the speckle of the bank

fucking blethers − shedding mumbles

sing of pebbles − tossed & sank


jotting muddles, spotting otters

or the mooring of the hen

current rustles, puddle fodder

as the heron swan & pen


running mirrors, flicker races

clear's the sparkle of the vole

humming handel, brahms in places

fhir a' bhàta − rock 'n' roll


mountains spouting, hillocks bleeding

in the water of the rat

trouts−a−pouting, pillocks streaming

of an evening − this 'n' shat


passing bottles, hanging branches

& the dragon of the fly

quacking wobbles, waddle dances

pissing rivers − scribble i

...

 

alladin’s magic lamprey

~

alladin’s magic lamprey  (  ‘ n u f f  s h e d  )

…




coleslaw caterwauls

splashback avalon

hedgerow pencil case

flapjack pinafore


mu-moon monolith

basalt sausage bogs

black hole iodine

tenpin tesseract


whiplash avebury

sidecar carnival

salt sunned spider-eyed

mam tor parallax


nosebleed libraries

mudflap mercury

gas mask serpentine

- save the maypole cat

( ! )

...

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

...

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

...

it’s ten

~

it’s ten  (  t e n  l i n e s  o f  t e n  s y l l a b l e s  r e  t e n  )

…




green gleams the bottle & speckled's the hen

frog hops the throttle as piss squids the pen

dowsers in trousers & farmers in dens

downing street's weasels are marching again

clatter commandments & flutter's the wren

butter's the nutter as clutter's the zen

fingers with thumbs in plus extras in fens

looping the yule lords when leaping the glen

over october in inkblots & then

onto eleven etc. - it's ten

...

 

lost poem

~

lost poem  (  a  n o t e  )

…





poem missing

have you seen it?

wormed & mongrel

bites if cornered


& you're ginger

lives on daydreams

cake & nectar

winged & feathered


seven antlers

toes of oboe

feeds the pigeons

wonky nostrils


floats on puddles

boats & bubbles

born last whitsun

( cash if caught )

...

circles in the burbles

~

circles in the burbles  (  a  p o e m  &  m e o p  a  )

…




...

circles in the burbles

knuckle dust & buster

swans-a-song a linger

fingers in the butter


fingers in the butter

limber spring & squinter

sing a dawn o' walrus

tortoise in the sprinter


tortoise in the sprinter

suckle sun & teeter

riddles spin the piddles

scribbles in the aether


scribbles in the aether

bubble burst & bursar

pincers pip the apples

mammals in the murmur


mammals in the murmur

natterjacks & natter

turtles tooting scooters

surplus in the adders


surplus in the adders

xanadu & looters

higher pi the vocals

kippers in the suitors


kippers in the suitors

rosaries & oval

lemon teas the curdles

twinkles in the tonal


twinkles in the tonal

stutter, slur & hurdles

gurgles in the gerbils

circles in the burbles

...

pentecost goggles

~

pentecost goggles  (  a  p o e t r y  )

…




pentecost goggles

ptarmigan armbands

brass in the bandstand

hedgerows of hedgehogs


hedgerows of hedgehogs

haversack handstands

jam in the jangles

turin shroud trousers


turin shroud trousers

tentacles tether

bundles of trundles

candlemas ankles


candlemas ankles

canterbury - kraken

dragons & scanning

pentecost goggles

...