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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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porridge forage  (  a  p o e m  &  a  m e s s  )

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mumbles, tangles - bramble jam the jar

jungles, dangles, bumblebee & tree

rambles, scrambles - apple crab the spar

trundles, rundles, glimmer-shim & lea


meadows, echoes - riverbank the brook

bellows, hedgerows, raptor-map & scanned

flutter, frescoes - tenter hook the crook

nutter, yellows, rubber ducks & bands


heather, blether - weather green the root

crooked, hooded, wooded track & trail

golden, y'olden - ever-gleams the shoot

feather, footed, moorland, tor & veil


latches, scratches - pasture patch the scrap

herbal, verbal, curdle crow & notes

petals, nettles - circles turn the flap

hatches, hurdles, burble blow & oats

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pursed lips  (  a  p o e m  )

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of needles we hymn & pins in sing

as bellends then ring & cats flap wings

as milling maids silk

& kitchens milk

the sows of the ears - cows hear - us ping

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the badger baroness (  f i v e  –  s e v e n  –  f i v e  )

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mirrors, plays & prunes


t.v, t.b, grubs & shrubs


silver clay & spoons


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geese & keys  (  a  p o e t r y  )

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gallifrey wetwipes

tenpin pantomime

waterboard accordion

pygmy shrews in lieu


marble arch backstroke

prussian blue - the musical

quarter past wednesday

avalon, the scrabble years


mountain hare warfare

damson jam parallax

pencils in the marzipan

stencils in the wind


cauliflower trousers

wine gums in the cellar's pit

spittle in the mole hole

( pen is plinking ink )

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gaps, gaffs ‘n’ naps  (  a  p o e t r y  )

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suck's the lemon shred shed

in the onion spun head

as a pear

snares the fare

in the nectarine bed


spud's the rubber duck wall

in the watercress hall

as a ghost

stokes the stove

in the coma-toes stall


plum's the podded pea dog

in the broccoli bog

as a horse

snorts the porch

in the fennel fen fog


sup's the shepherd red grape

in the leopard-led ape

as an owl

howls the towel

in the speckled rabe scrape


pluck's the carrot top frost

in the sugar snap loft

as a bat

blacks the flap

in the salad toss swash


bud's the butter bean spouse

in the russet brown blouse

as an imp

suds the sink

in the grocer's green house

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‘never been to mars  (  m u s i n g s  )

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but i used to live on marzipan

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easter card list  (  s o m e  o ‘  t h a t  )

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crocodile well dressing

tutankhamun hologram

athlete's foot spa avalanche

telepathic camel toe

labyrinthine caramel

otter crofter hovercraft

badger basket nuclei

simmer sinnel

poltergeist

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