~

( a surfeit of lampshades )  (  a  r e w r i t e  o f  a  p r e v i o u s l y  o n  )

…

 

cheapskate in a dream state paper

plain & black as snow

kisses shite & shattered pen ink

white as frozen crow

clean slates slip as swans sing chansons

spits of feathered songs

so the ruffled stream flows backwards

upwards then we row


slime to meet thy honey maker

itch & twiddle toes

ninja slice & dice an onion

nimbly kneed that dough

bang a speckled y'olden gold gong

thesp & act that one

stir the ghosts for spectral breakast

when the garden grows


garbled scraps & bastard capers

scarpered as me flow

stick to myths & squinter's whispers

knot what folk may know

apples bob & rivers glisten

avalon & on

scribbles in the jiggles wriggle

squits of so & so


fruits of frorests, floss & labour

fizzled quill winds blow

flicker flecks & settle embers

watch them as they glow

ring-a-ring of wrongs etc.

where they should belong

as the rabble rain rants buckets

fuck it - here we go

...

~

oh, phuh – q  (  a  p o e m  )

…

querulous

quarrymen

questionnaire

quince


quilted

quadrangles

quantify

quail


quivered

quicksilver

quarantines

queen


quickstep

quadrupeds

quagga quartz

quack

...

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folk magnet  (  a  p o e m  )

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thimbles thatch the beans

penguins pepper evergreens

puffin muffins means


purple curtains cats

curdle jams the jungle gnat

adders hatch the rat


quiver winter queens

rivers shovel submarines

buzzards tambourine


herd is hare the pat

air is square the chairman splats

opera ox the bat


blisters double cream

blizzards mutton butter spleens

bubble mezzanine


puddle plugs the plait

warble woads a woven hat

so soak flay - & that

...

 

~

lines upon a sun-daze  (  a  p o e t r y  o f  m o r n )

…

finder's fleas & fire eaters

kettles storming phantom castles

myrmidons & water meters

sugar lumps the sunken camel


leopard spots & chequered cheetahs

lizards rigging ruffled raffles

anagrams & sea verb beavers

bakers roll the battered barrel


melon groves & lemon squeezers

badgers bobbing rotten apples

butchery & eager cleavers

reavers reap the babble's battle


locust swarms & lotus eaters

fingers slipping - fumble grapples

summer's sleet & winter's easter's

whispers in the haunted chapel

...

 

~

breadcrumbs  (  a  ?  )

…

a flicker in the vicarage

a tingle in the toe

a ripple in the waterbed

a footprint in the snow


a feather in the dresser drawer

a pebble in the shoe

a marble in the garden shed

a spanner in the screw


a ladder in the library

a needle in the mow

a weasel in the binary

a dagger in the glow


a clover in the grocer's store

a vista in the view

a cipher in the spider's web

a pencil in the clue

( ? )

...

 

~

scrawl calls  (  o n e  o ‘  t h e m  p o e m  t h i n g s  )

…

sonnets spun of consonants

bibles swiped of b's

novels penned for ombudsmen

graphs of graffiti


hoi poloi - the corduroy blears

horns & headers three

magic maps for morris men

missing sheets of key


anagram the agar man

scrapes of symmetry

speckles in the river mist

spurts of herbal tea


squinter whiffs of potpourri

warble binary

portals in the otter ink

plods of podded pea


feather in the blether cap

flaps of tapestry

squiggles in the kitchen sink

squints of symphony


bubble bursts & stumble stubs

bubmles of the bee

doodles drawn of noodle spawn

dawdle diary


dialogues for miming troupes

notes on groceries

diatribes & scattered scribes

hagiographies


babbles on for babylon

scribbles soak the sea

saturn suns the dagger cloak

poetry of tree

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