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bread holes & ket rolls  (  a  p o e m z  )

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lawn scrolls & dead bowls

& shed in the hedgerow

war in the warbles

& swell in the yellow


flip foals & spring poles

& cook in the cuckoo

badge in the badger

& cash in the cashew


oak shoals & fish knolls

& rot in the forest

rat in the rattle

& drop in the porridge


bridge voles & bank trolls

a spot in the hopscotch

ship in the bishop

& hop in the swashed pot


road coal & hot tolls

a stash in the ashtray

rake in the baker

& ash in the sashay


bread holes & ket rolls

a toe in the thrown seed

pea in the peasant

& bone in the nosebleed

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fluster pops  (  a n o t h e r  p o e m  )

…

apples, babbles, battleaxe & castles

rattles, chapels, parallax & paddles

poodles, noodles

feudal student strudels

barrels, mammals, haversacks & shackles


pencils, pebbles, devil debts & trebles

eccles, speckles, vessel wrecks & freckles

lemurs, femurs

bumble beaver weavers

stencils, temples, metal fence & nettles


bubbles, muddles, smuggle ups & snuggles

scuttles, shovels, knuckle nuts & doubles

cymbals, tingles

twinkle spindle dingles

puddles, pummels, shovel dust & shuffles


prickles, nipples, slipper mats & wriggles

skittles, spittles, river mats & ripples

onions, luncheons

sunken cousin bunions

skittles, fiddles, inner-flaps & pickles

...

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down dale  (  a  p o e m  s t r o k e  s o n g  )

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heather & weather

a vat in the view

mirrors mist mizzle on moors,

pheasants & peasants

a rat in the shrew

puddles mud fuddles on tors


hillocks & pillocks

a hare in the chill

mackerels wreak haddock at heights,

apples & battles

a pear in the swill

bantams snare phantoms at nights


ruffles & truffles

a stoat in the coat

muffles mud scuffles up slopes,

adders & ladders

a gnat in the goat

squirrels spit riddles up oaks


hoodlums & woodlands

a glade in the glen

squinter squits drizzle then sings,

weasel & teasel

a page in the pen

portals pore water then wings


dingles & shingles

a step in the spring

kettles sing nettles of braes,

quivers & rivers

a spin in the sing

feathers fleck speckles of daze


wizards & blizzards

a thorn in the stride

tangles spat brambles in me,

echoes & yellows

a hedge in the mind

evergreen bees in the lea

...

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s h r e w s  (  s o m e  p o e m  o r  o t h e r  )

…

s onic sister sun sorbet

sabre sailor straightaway


h osta hobble hideaway

hooded hyphen holiday


r undle rubble ricochet

ruffle roses runaway


e asel eagle émigré

echo elbow everyday


w icket warble watwerway

whippet wrestle wren wednesday


s ilver sausage saturday

solar saucer stowaway

...

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a shropshire ladder  (  a . e  i n  t h e  h o u s e  –  m a n  )

…

hen i was swan & bendy

i burred an iceman splay

" div sounds & nouns & spinneys

but knot your harp array;

sieve pearls - wah hey - & uzis

but sweep your pansy tree "

but i was swan & bendy,

snow juice to squawk to me


hen i was swan & bendy

i whirlwind whey again

" the tart is trout & wooden

was weather gibbon in vane;

'tis maid with thighs-a-sentry

& scold for breathless boo "

& i am shrew & bendy

& crow, 'tis spew, 'tis spew

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a snake & still a sheep  (  a  p o e m z z z  )

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i'm a snake & still a sheep

bumbles in the mumble's bread

eyes-a-slur & cream in creak

rundles in the rumble's stead


i'm a mare & of the brae

gazing in the bite of night

battle's bats & sing's the jay

babble on & song's the tights


i'm the cleft & churn a chain

slack's the slaw as gore's the grouse

portals paw & prat's the brain

'til once war - i'll haunt this mouse

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