The Spoonbill Generator Archive
An Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse
1996–2007
*** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines
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The Spoonbill Generator ArchiveAn Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse
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Poems by Year: 1996 -
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2007 *** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines | |
Poem: The Indigo Poem | |||
Title | First line | ||
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| 2003 Aug 2 | Epistle upon the Ancient Streams | Sir: | |
| 2003 Aug 3 | Feet Were Walking | When I was young did eagerly frequent | |
| 2003 Aug 3 | Cleaning the Little Weasels | Where have all the guppies gone? | |
| 2003 Aug 4 | Naked Halluciantions of Night | Madness and despair have haunted me | |
| 2003 Aug 4 | Mean Words | When words cannot convey | |
| 2003 Aug 4 | Sam | Will Kansas Sam be upset with us when he gets back? | |
| 2003 Aug 5 | What Boils Soot? | Whatever shall we do with your Aunt Sadie? | |
| 2003 Aug 5 | Diesel Pass | When you see me, pass me by | |
| 2003 Aug 6 | Titillate but Don't Touch | Versification is such titillation | |
| 2003 Aug 6 | Piggy, Piggy, Here Comes Piggy | PIGGY WINGS | |
| 2003 Aug 6 | Ballad of Vermillion Dances | Could I borrow just a minute of your time? | |
| 2003 Aug 6 | Never Wake, But Often Dreams | A bleeding broken heart | |
| 2003 Aug 7 | Bees' Buttocks | Whirring dials and blinking lights | |
| 2003 Aug 7 | Menthols for Dinosaurs | Do not go husky into that bad flight | |
| 2003 Aug 7 | Cocksure | There's halfcock and moorcock | |
| 2003 Aug 8 | Whatever I May Need in Make Believe | I may be gone a little while | |
| 2003 Aug 8 | And And And Whimpering | "It was so kind of you to come! | |
| 2003 Aug 11 | Bells, Time Of | The bells of contrariness | |
| 2003 Aug 11 | Do Bubba Nano | Jazz, pizzazz, and razzmatazz | |
| 2003 Aug 12 | Paper Grasshoppers | The moon's a baloon, you know | |
| 2003 Aug 13 | Untitled | There is a secret hidden in the code... | |
| 2003 Aug 14 | If Rapture Exists | If ever there was a time when wishes and dreams could come true | |
| 2003 Aug 15 | Against Spelling | Would you care to dance? | |
| 2003 Aug 15 | The Over | They say the power has just gone out | |
| 2003 Aug 17 | Exhausted Bus of Sand | I took a Greyhound bus to Timbuktu | |
| 2003 Aug 17 | Naughty Sonnet | Oh how I loathe thee let me count the ways | |
| 2003 Aug 17 | Favorite Wigs | Crewcuts, pompadours, bouffants, and mohawks | |
| 2003 Aug 18 | Rhyme | Is the meaning of poetry lost in the ages? | |
| 2003 Aug 18 | Flattery of a Goose | When starting on a masterpiece | |
| 2003 Aug 19 | Tarragon Piglets | Heaven-sent sixpence, platypus pie | |
| 2003 Aug 19 | Antiproverbial: Aphorisms Redefined | What if one swallow does make a summer? | |
| 2003 Aug 20 | Bus Baby Boop | I went down to the bus station to meet my baby | |
| 2003 Aug 20 | Sigh and Suicide | It's time for a limerick now | |
| 2003 Aug 21 | Not Yet Nice Enough | Aussie rock lyric challenge | |
| 2003 Aug 23 | With Suzanne in Swaziland | I never thought of leaving home until I met Suzanne | |
| 2003 Aug 25 | Why Forgive? | Forgive me if I salivate when Pavlov rings his bell | |
| 2003 Aug 25 | Brooding Night | The night is a ladyOf no uncertain temperament | |
| 2003 Aug 28 | Your Prize | There is often told a legend of a treasure | |
| 2003 Aug 28 | Millipede Stain | When saturation takes its toll | |
| 2003 Aug 28 | Will Scarlett Ruffled Your Whiskers | Try not to get your knickers in a knot | |
| 2003 Aug 29 | Silly Clothes | My boots they are not filigree'd | |
| 2003 Aug 29 | Wish | I wish I were a platypus | |
| 2003 Sep 1 | Pablo The Optometrist's Friend | Picasso, in his early years, | |
| 2003 Sep 2 | The Night Match (Unseen Sisters) | Simple sisters in the sunlight | |
| 2003 Sep 3 | Happy Ode to Love Unbounded | Come with me, My Love, and see good Nature's fairest flow'r | |
| 2003 Sep 4 | Escape Attempts | There once was a Cornishman, Lee, | |
| 2003 Sep 5 | Cruella Knew Every Hamster | I once knew a shipless Magellan | |
| 2003 Sep 6 | Christmas Eggs (Sorry) | The lesser spotted Spoonbill | |
| 2003 Sep 9 | He Knew Lake Geneva | Taupe plateaus, a turquoise skyThe bleached bones of oxen | |
| 2003 Sep 9 | Let The Litmus Decide | It's time we rearranged the border | |
| 2003 Sep 11 | On The Toes | Ive just seen my feet for the first time in years | |
| 2003 Sep 16 | The Moon So Subtly Flying | Once I flew to the moon, my wings dripped gold and blue | |
| 2003 Sep 17 | Anarchy Pastilles | When Spoonbill went on the blink | |
| 2003 Sep 18 | Legacy of Homey Charms | I would hardly complain that loudly to be compared with Frost | |
| 2003 Sep 20 | Beatles Stew | When I get to the bottom, I go back to the top | |
| 2003 Sep 21 | Input Commandments | Another call from Abraham | |
| 2003 Sep 22 | Quicksand in My Tush | You're my special Dalek | |
| 2003 Sep 22 | Signs Of Sorrows | I am sowing hope | |
| 2003 Sep 23 | Mix My Soul with Potions Metaphysical | Words enfold me, winged things | |
| 2003 Sep 24 | Time is Our Sinecure | Within this life awakening | |
| 2003 Sep 25 | The Tidal Sound of Deflated Souls | The river was breaking its bank | |
| 2003 Sep 25 | Filling the Proverbial Crannies | I try to Haiku | |
| 2003 Sep 26 | The Copy-Cat Stutter | The miscreant potato | |
| 2003 Sep 26 | The Authors of Unsettled Remains | On Spoonbill we all write in verse | |
| 2003 Sep 26 | Finis is | This is the first line | |
| 2003 Sep 26 | Ears for Eyelids | Sleep is coming soon | |
| 2003 Sep 28 | Wiggling On Steroids | When playing a game of poker with some dogs | |
| 2003 Sep 30 | Food for the Twin | Kielbasa is a sausage quite sublime | |
| 2003 Oct 1 | He Knew I Was a Frog | Miss Piggy was making a fuss | |
| 2003 Oct 1 | Several Nirvana Years | This metropolis, this wasteland, these wand'ring souls | |
| 2003 Oct 2 | I'll never ηπ again | I once was told that A is πr | |
| 2003 Oct 2 | Not Their Fault At All, Really | When down-and-outs start trading shins | |
| 2003 Oct 8 | My Least Best Failing | The restrooms here are fairly clean | |
| 2003 Oct 11 | Rearward Facing Gum Machines Realise Their Cosmic Purpose | An overpriced player called Rio | |
| 2003 Oct 13 | Loincloths of Hickory | Some folks like a formula | |
| 2003 Oct 14 | Relentless Knishes | There was an old lady from Wales | |
| 2003 Oct 15 | Shaking Like Evaporating Milkmaids | Don't think me ungrateful, but | |
| 2003 Oct 17 | Any Compound of Phosphorus | Paradigm of porters' skill | |
| 2003 Oct 18 | Asphalt Trumps My Ace | I like | |
| 2003 Oct 21 | Other Pubic Grindings | Ah, your onyx eyes and sequined purse | |
| 2003 Oct 22 | Vice and Chips | The world, a fuzzball, a ball of yarn | |
| 2003 Oct 22 | Screaming for Revenge in the Afterlife | Something there is that doesn't love a fish | |
| 2003 Oct 27 | Lemon Feet | Your limpet grasp gives me no rest | |
| 2003 Oct 29 | Tmesis Hell | I like to spoon-bloody-bill, | |
| 2003 Oct 30 | Manure Can | Ovegiously, he blarks the heen | |
| 2003 Nov 1 | Even Elves Entirely Excellent | Twixt D and F I'm found, but missing from this ballad | |
| 2003 Nov 4 | Gambits Under Glass | This time, then another, then - perhaps - once more | |
| 2003 Nov 6 | If They Reversed The Creosote | It didn't have to end this way | |
| 2003 Nov 7 | Shaking Moon Teabag | There was a spoonbiller so svelte | |
| 2003 Nov 7 | Pastiche (Coconuts) | Palm trees are not known to thrive amid the snow | |
| 2003 Nov 10 | The Abandoned Soup Molestors | The soup is rather thick today | |
| 2003 Nov 11 | Londoners In Vegas | Another buck; the symbols spin | |
| 2003 Nov 11 | Into The Black Of The Tentacle | There was a young maiden named Sue | |
| 2003 Nov 12 | When The Wings Are Spread Like Mustard | Is Haiku passe? | |
| 2003 Nov 12 | Consequences | There once was a curious cat | |
| 2003 Nov 13 | Fructose Frogs For Little Boys | A line of sawdust or cocaine | |
| 2003 Nov 17 | Let's Ride Away And Begin Again Without Shame | Should one great leader cross the sea | |
| 2003 Nov 18 | Highly Prized Hydrocarbon | Titrate this acid, if you please, against this salt, | |
| 2003 Nov 19 | When Einstein Saw Madonna | Elusively, they flit away | |
| 2003 Nov 20 | Enigma Who Will Someday Prove Secret | Why do you stare, do you think that I care? | |
| 2003 Nov 20 | Harrumph Parumph Gallumph | How silly, you're suddenly snooty | |
| 2003 Nov 22 | The Ancient Dreams Of Ken | Against a sky of brooding green | |
| 2003 Nov 24 | Tale Of Municipal Ribaldry | What strange goings-on have there been in this town | |
| 2003 Nov 25 | Words That Fail MOTs | Preserve us from another bout | |
| 2003 Nov 27 | Grudges Over The Family Fishing Rights | Anthony Blair | |
| 2003 Nov 28 | Who Would Right Their Wrongs? | Our curls may give a false impression | |
| 2003 Dec 2 | Dyslexia Is A Condition Much Like Nay Other | A narry stight, a brentle geeze | |
| 2003 Dec 3 | Increasingly Preposterous Homilies | The champagne glass lies shattered | |
| 2003 Dec 3 | I Admire The Willingness | As we know, there are known knowns | |
| 2003 Dec 6 | Stop Playing Tiddlywinks When I'm Watching | On the plains of Andalucia, I met a honking horse | |
| 2003 Dec 8 | Destiny In Pounds | Excuse me, darling, have you put on some weight? | |
| 2003 Dec 10 | Abuse Of Frequent Positivism | While I was panhandling one bright sunny day | |
| 2003 Dec 12 | Poets Into Beasts | I know what it's like to be a poet. | |
| 2003 Dec 17 | Papal Disgust | If you lift a dog with a crane, will he count to infinity? | |
| 2003 Dec 21 | Ill-fated Flyover On Insect Wings | See the tiny aerodrome | |
| 2003 Dec 29 | The Shown Tear Of A Cloudbuster | I'd rest, if I could, but a holiday's on | |
| 2004 Jan 4 | Without Looking Twice | "Wherefore honkest thou," said I, "although in neighing guise?" | |
| 2004 Jan 7 | Despite Themselves | Captain Mesmer brought me 'round | |
| 2004 Jan 8 | Devoured By Trousers | Shut tight as a clam, not to be pried by any mere woman | |
| 2004 Jan 14 | Contempt For Moustaches | When nightfall arrives with a purplish glow | |
| 2004 Jan 15 | Reversed In The Wash Of Fortune | Corporation. There we go | |
| 2004 Jan 17 | The Georgian Silhouettes | Do not single out the fat for taking too much space | |
| 2004 Jan 20 | Impasto Throughout Australasia | My wife is nibbling at my neck | |
| 2004 Jan 21 | Ut Nicotinum Ad Adorum Nescientum | The rattle of toys being hurled out of prams | |
| 2004 Jan 22 | Phoebe Married The Warmonger | Smell my squirty button-hole | |
| 2004 Jan 24 | Paternity Proves Nothing | Crayfish, lobster, crab | |
| 2004 Jan 25 | Implacable Northerly Padrés | Competition in other places | |
| 2004 Jan 26 | Each Syllable Concocted By Buddhists | The pulse that beats within a flea | |
| 2004 Jan 28 | Hamlet With Fish | My chronic youth would soon speed past | |
| 2004 Jan 29 | 440 Foursome | Three down redoubled, 1000 away | |
| 2004 Feb 5 | Sorry Lament For Gilded Wallets | When I consider what my wife has spent | |
| 2004 Feb 19 | Crybaby Number Nine (1967) | The lonely hearts in Sgt. Pepper's Band | |
| 2004 Feb 19 | Forgive, Offhandedly | While you were away | |
| 2004 Feb 20 | Flawed Inheritance | Agnes played the cymbals, three nights a week | |
| 2004 Feb 25 | Near Creepy Cow Lane | The last time I polkaed with Ted | |
| 2004 Mar 18 | Proved Once, Baked Twice | Unshockable, the bailiff's urge | |
| 2004 Mar 23 | Subtle With Hotdogs | 'Here are the gum-boots you ordered, madam!' | |
| 2004 Mar 30 | Hen Pectoral Commemorated | Suffolk Asian – who would choose | |
| 2004 Apr 2 | Canine Bearing | Despite this aberration, sir | |
| 2004 Apr 11 | Soprano And Under | Surrendering to something | |
| 2004 Apr 20 | Spoon Receipt | Such is the demon's lot | |
| 2004 Apr 24 | Longingly Depend | Whilst figuring out how to untie his shoes | |
| 2004 Apr 26 | Looking Lively And Feeling Crap | Can this be it? Can Spring be here? | |
| 2004 Apr 29 | Nuns Betray Our Laxative Supplies | Incantations - dead of night - | |
| 2004 May 8 | Thwarted By Occam | Don't invade us till the dawn, | |
| 2004 May 13 | Better Lettuce Forthcoming | As the orders start to dry | |
| 2004 May 17 | Upstream Candidate | He was singing in Dutch | |
| 2004 May 17 | Wasted Needlework | Harrumph, I say | |
| 2004 May 18 | The Very Ouch | Put me through the paper shredder | |
| 2004 May 21 | Semaphore Statements Issued In Urdu | Let's keep this one simple | |
| 2004 May 28 | Attraction Determined By Inquest | He took her down a leafy lane | |
| 2004 Jun 1 | Nepalese Danceuse Observed Using Stun-guns | Behold the scold: | |
| 2004 Jun 25 | Each Dainty Ballerina And Her Imaginary Pilchard | This happy nest has made me cry | |
| 2004 Jun 27 | Blackbird Singing With Bluebeard | With 'action' just another word | |
| 2004 Jun 29 | The Fourth Alibi From The Left | Oh blessed fragment of the foam | |
| 2004 Jul 1 | My Cardboard Mother | Dressing as a helicopter | |
| 2004 Jul 2 | Only Fools Rush | Only a rose | |
| 2004 Jul 6 | The Fragile Steel | So easy to upset her | |
| 2004 Jul 9 | Sailor Marinated In November | Pleiades in yonder sky | |
| 2004 Jul 13 | Glaswegians In Time-share Bodies | On a hilltop, left of Rheims, | |
| 2004 Jul 14 | Fail By Then If Never | Calisthenic ribaldry shall not win you the prize! | |
| 2004 Aug 8 | Eyeliner How Ever Loosely Bent | Ridicule for penguins only makes them slide | |
| 2004 Aug 11 | Syllabub Proverbs | The lumps one sometimes finds in cream | |
| 2004 Aug 23 | Nuptial Mishaps With Long Knives | A young anthropologist cried | |
| 2004 Aug 25 | Sugary Benisons During Walpurgisnacht | In conclusion, blessed child, | |
| 2004 Aug 27 | Queen Of The Feathers | Her innocence unquestioned, her purity renowned | |
| 2004 Aug 31 | Campaigns Begin Like Bladders | The politican declaimed and avowed | |
| 2004 Sep 1 | The Things That Are Caramelized By Moonlight | Imagine there were jungles on the moon | |
| 2004 Sep 6 | Yeats Upon A Toadstool | Parsimony of the heavens | |
| 2004 Sep 10 | Cheery Thoughts About Society | Biting on a leaden shell, I contemplate my doom | |
| 2004 Sep 16 | Stuff Your Turkey And Grab A Second Chance For Redemption | I see you bought a pair of saddle shoes | |
| 2004 Sep 19 | But For Us And Them | Call me a quack | |
| 2004 Oct 5 | Since We Are Seldom Decoded | Caught in cobwebs, smothered by your love | |
| 2004 Oct 22 | Clucking Behind The Bicycle Sheds | Charlie the cheerful chicken | |
| 2004 Oct 30 | Philately Tentacles | I'm off – be back by Thursday night | |
| 2004 Nov 3 | In My Long-lost Wellingtons | Magnetic fields, an iron horse | |
| 2004 Nov 9 | Packing-case Diagrams | When all seems lost, all hope forlorn | |
| 2004 Nov 16 | The Newest Helmet | You can't complain | |
| 2004 Nov 30 | Lunar Love-fest | We hear you're taking a trip to the moon | |
| 2004 Dec 1 | Lurching Balloons | Please release me | |
| 2004 Dec 9 | Pathos During Moonsets | This wearisome drought | |
| 2004 Dec 21 | This Is My Third Thumb | Please release me. Let me go | |
| 2005 Jan 9 | Zeppo Lamenting | Emily and Sally, Kathy and Loureen, | |
| 2005 Jan 11 | The Crooner Under Cover | Way down upon the Swanee River | |
| 2005 Jan 25 | Haddock Versus Anchovies: Discuss | My tension's most unmenstrual, | |
| 2005 Jan 27 | Futile | Ripe bananas, ten a pound! Grapes to fit a feast! | |
| 2005 Feb 4 | Over And Outhouse | Astride a blazing horse | |
| 2005 Feb 16 | The Frictionless Vol-au-vent | This is now | |
| 2005 Feb 23 | Gorgon Cookies | Just imagine thirteen cakes aglitter in the night: | |
| 2005 Mar 31 | Four Times Four Is Tonic | So ... how to subvert the Age of Consent? | |
| 2005 Apr 12 | Send Major Wordsworth | Said I to Gus Grissom | |
| 2005 Jun 13 | Saul Bellow Cloudringed By Nymphs | In his Jeans®, stood Jasper Johns | |
| 2005 Jul 5 | The Sanskrit Kirk Railings | Just a taste of sunshine | |
| 2005 Jul 18 | Heave Aside Our Plundering Pharoah | At seven Gs | |
| 2005 Jul 22 | Mated By Happenstance | A fledgling wasp once took the time | |
| 2005 Jul 27 | Bismuth Bill Again | Incursions 4, Evasions 5 | |
| 2005 Aug 22 | Lasers In Latin | To grasp these prawns will take some skill | |
| 2005 Sep 7 | Our Leather-Bound Archipelago Swept Clean | Returning to my spawning-grounds | |
| 2005 Sep 27 | Any Extreme Prognostication Except | You - a loan - are the Most High! | |
| 2005 Oct 14 | No Carborundum | Moving twice | |
| 2005 Oct 20 | Mermaids Sighing Affidavits | Harold Pinter, author of Betrayal, | |
| 2005 Oct 31 | Vongole Al Limone Con Funghi | Clams are not my favoured dish | |
| 2005 Nov 16 | The Lost Macduff Reforms In Ely | His cranium, by some accounts | |
| 2005 Dec 8 | Piebald Cheques | 'The first day of the rest of your life', they sang, | |
| 2006 Jan 19 | It Seems Pointless To Polka | Handel's Croatian | |
| 2006 Feb 11 | The Great Critics | E wrote slowly, R wrote fast | |
| 2006 Feb 24 | Our Road Is Hardly Justified | Put me through the paper shredder | |
| 2006 Mar 6 | Chance Coupling Without The Responsibility | Massive friction, from her waist, | |
| 2006 Mar 9 | The Protective Turnip, Terrified Of Nightmares, Is Already Failing Under My Tutelage | I had a date with a girl named Fred | |
| 2006 Mar 25 | Wallpaper For Beavers | I found your umbrella | |
| 2006 Apr 4 | Echoes Of Ashes | Mississipi, come to me! | |
| 2006 Apr 26 | Attempts At Ironic Posturing | My bunny lies over the ocean | |
| 2006 May 15 | Men Without Equations | Are you prepared to reveal | |
| 2006 Jun 13 | Concerto For Nobody And Drum | When the new one comes out | |
| 2006 Jun 15 | Fasting Myths | That loathsome letter taints the page | |
| 2006 Jun 24 | Torment Jemima For Bothering | My neighbours, then, the nomads | |
| 2006 Aug 3 | Eight Parrots, Seven Rogues | Hengist had the brightest sword | |
| 2006 Sep 1 | Elizabethan Lemonade | It is said that a codpiece, selected to cover | |
| 2004 Nov 24 | All Things Can Be Overturned In Time | Join the dance, you naiads all, | |
| 2005 Jan 26 | Enough Said: The Undershirts Finally Arrived | Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, DAMN! | |
| 2005 Oct 25 | Half Baked Wholly | Stalk the streets of Serenissima | |
| 2006 Jun 20 | The Lost Banter | Thou, pollen, art my nemesis | |