The Spoonbill Generator Archive

An Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse
1996–2007

Poems by Year: 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007

*** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines

		Title	First line

Poem: The Red Poem
	1996 Nov 1	Cost-effective Starlight	There is room for two legs in my trousers
***	1996 Dec 16	Hectoring tripe	Enough of your brutal evasions!
	1997 Jan 3	Chutney, the Ragtime Crab	I sighed for the feel of formica
	1997 Jan 18	Arizona's Coptic Rime	Your fossil terrorised our clan
	1997 Jan 22	Seemly Onions	A beast with two backs
	1997 Jan 30	Although My Testament Lies Steaming	The price of penance is the soul,
	1997 Feb 8	The Cherry Challenge	Woodworm! Spare that tray
	1997 Feb 16	Modish Qualms	I name this dead wasp 'Halitosis'
	1997 Feb 17	Artless	Art serves to remind us all,
	1997 Feb 24	Insensible Blandishments	Ask anyone about my woes,
	1997 Mar 5	Maya's Misty Watercolor Blues	As Maya turned the page
	1997 Mar 10	Your Strict Horses Inhibit My Double Repetition	It was something to do with marmalade
	1997 Mar 13	A Token for Parting	The filing cabinet, the filing cabinet
	1997 Mar 24	Obelisk: Confusion	That karaoke chaos
	1997 Apr 15	Bathroom Psychodrama	Pale in her Siamese twin-set
	1997 Apr 29	Tapioca Mouthwash	Outrage at the orthodox
	1997 May 18	A Snail Keeps Shop	A Case of Riotous Block
	1997 May 21	Unrealistic Coconuts	Merry munchkins mangle macaroons on Mondays
	1997 May 31	How Met By Legion	You call yourself a Yeti
	1997 Jun 7	Saffron, Saffron	I've seen the skull beneath the scone
	1997 Jun 28	Mudwoman, repent!	Life for a girl is a sensual map
	1997 Jul 7	On Knowing Little Tess	Her hair falls short of a pageboy's crop
	1997 Jul 27	What is Golden?	The curlew trolls to Nell of darkling hay
	1997 Aug 18	Whoever timely looks	I've eaten all the Urals
	1997 Sep 10	Highgate Hopeful	As we crested the brow of the ultimate hill
	1997 Sep 27	Ornamental William Golding Glimmmers in Void	Pretty, pretty hermit
	1997 Oct 11	Reasonable Crimes Of Tarpaulin	Tribal animosity
	1997 Nov 4	A Particularly Contemporary Procedure	Particularly pleasing was the scent of new-mown hay
	1997 Nov 28	Clustering (Algorithm Played on a Gumby)	Between the barns, half-buried
	1997 Dec 21	The Bethlehem Magnetometer	When skies are grey, the darkest thought
	1998 Jan 5	Half-wits in Paradise	I've heard it said that Hell is other people
	1998 Jan 13	Other Shark-Infested Pillows	Seven cubed plus fourteen squared
	1998 Jan 31	My Soothsayer's Impeachment	Emblems of the regal scorn
	1998 Feb 8	Armpit Discipline	Ice carved by cold hearts,
	1998 Feb 15	The swarthy Wellington-boot	When nights draw in, and pubs resound with tales of Arthur's deeds
	1998 Feb 24	Ancestral vestiges of tambourine	Show me not your golden purse,
	1998 Mar 2	All Aboard, Airhead!	Wide eyed and innocent, she
	1998 Mar 8	Whether Lewinsky Swore (Wittgenstein's Homily)	The unblessed stranger twisted forth,
	1998 Mar 11	Nabobs and Frumps	OH! FEY! Cried the winged eel fingerling,
	1998 Mar 16	Z's Bequest (The Gamut)	'A' was an Arctic Abacus
	1998 Mar 22	Prayer Wheel Poker	Carpenter's, my only hope,
	1998 Mar 23	Buns	Andante, my love, for we've hours a-plenty
	1998 Apr 19	From Underneath Diana's Toast	Its stuns me, like it stuns us all
	1998 May 2	Kate's Gruttock Impaler	In times of stress I like to scratch my foot
	1998 May 14	Frugal the Frog	Behold the frugal cactus
	1998 Jun 7	Marching with Redemption Balloons	Like spoons they lie, a front to back,
	1998 Jun 30	My funicular cutlets, redeemed	The Green Joy made the Queen wet with dew
	1998 Aug 1	Who Once was Orson's Vampire	Judge this breakfast lightly
	1998 Aug 12	We Build, The Planes Come	Unbroken, unending, the wine-darkened sea
	1998 Sep 30	One-note Symphony on the Sudden Revolution	From where will the words come?
	1998 Oct 5	Unfamiliar Hair-brushes Gurgle	Clothing for the absent mind
	1998 Nov 18	Marrying Kine	In this ballet, cochineal
	1998 Dec 7	These honeycombed faces	Marmaduke was searching for the never-ending flute
	1999 Jan 3	Hell Fruit	If you think that I'm the reject, then I'll thrash you till you're blue
	1999 Jan 7	Trip, 15th August 1812	The sun had scarcely risen when we started down the lane
***	1999 Jan 21	Only Transient Sheep	Hiatus and Hibiscus are the names of my two sheep
	1999 Jan 24	Music Shadows Repetitively	An amphora of Egyptian darkness
	1999 Jan 31	Her Daymare	On the far side of the beach: abyss
	1999 Feb 4	My Earliest Barnacle-Busting Memory	Count to ten, then start again
	1999 Feb 8	Crepuscular Creation	I was excreted through a pore
	1999 Feb 8	From...	At the end of my tether I fastened a kite
	1999 Feb 13	Squeamish, Mother?	Toothpaste is a substance that I readily ingest
	1999 Feb 21	Crystal All Along	Dying in Luxor with the Spoonbill chill
	1999 Feb 28	How Death Became Moonshine	My tribal ways
	1999 Mar 6	Sugared Death Watching	A simple thought occured today, entirely on its' own
	1999 Mar 10	Seal Cobblers	Now, children, gather round, and I will tell you of Old Tom
	1999 Mar 28	Who Desecrates the Vector?	Make a portrait of King George upon the very sod
	1999 Apr 4	Homer Retranslated	Conversations are a winding down of time for most,
	1999 Apr 9	Neoplastic Ha'penny	My parachute has broken and I don't know how to fall
	1999 Apr 13	Uncivil Arcade	Gushing geysers greet the dwan with foam and spume and spray
	1999 Apr 20	Canterbury Nemesis	Petulant pilgrims don't like to eat rope
	1999 Apr 24	Romeo's Disagreeable Collapsible Peregrinations	'Festival of shouting!', so barked the trusty swain
	1999 May 8	Major Karamazov's On Call	Cooler than the outer wall
	1999 May 17	Anthem of Unfinished Toenails	It's best to smile
	1999 May 26	Warriors from Eternity	I wandered lonely as a nerd
	1999 Jun 11	Wetness, Damp Socks, and Prawns	Although our raft is still marooned
	1999 Jun 21	Fracturating Kippers: This Homophonic Harmonium	Meet my typing-tutor
	1999 Jun 28	Midsummer Fails Everyone	Mellow jazz oozes from the speakers
***	1999 Aug 17	Deathrow Welshmen Sometimes Tick	Has time stopped?
	1999 Aug 27	Googlehimmel (Pathetic Science)	Is it so? Have you not heard?
	1999 Sep 7	Renaissance Dental Imperfections Gallery	All right he said, I think I will
	1999 Oct 11	Blessed, Blessed, this Momenteum of the Morning	I told him that he shouldn't hoard the family's only Oiuja board
	1999 Oct 23	Beneath the Dismembering Sky	When Ethelred beheld the axolotl
	1999 Nov 9	To Bypass Cartesian Notation	Lot Seventeen: two lightweight combs
	1999 Nov 17	Corking the Windswept Wolves	When I consider ............ no, I can't go on
	1999 Dec 7	Mythical Piscator	I talk to herring in the dark when no one is around
	1999 Dec 24	Worse Shame Than Coal-Shovelling Tendencies	Uncertain and yet, somehow, sure
	2000 Jan 4	A Formal Comeback For The New Millipede	From pyramid to penthouse
	2000 Jan 5	Melt-Down Happens Nightly	'Well, stap me vitals!' swore William Hague:
	2000 Jan 14	Barbecue Sores	Folded like a deck-chair
	2000 Jan 21	Hurrah! A Pointless Stereo Pencil	The lines of life upon her face
***	2000 Jan 30	Big Custard	Warm in nutritious mulch, we germinate,
	2000 Feb 1	Advertising Plato	With cogent epigrams
	2000 Feb 8	Bottomless Yachting	A plethora of penguins is rarely to be found
***	2000 Feb 14	Sonnet	If the prophets who foretell my life
	2000 Feb 15	Binyon County: The Defective Kite	Who remembers me, Lieutenant Aubergine?
	2000 Feb 15	Sonnet	This flower that we planted long ago
***	2000 Feb 27	Rash Wednesday On The Grim Reeperbahn	Give me a whirl on the trampoline dull
	2000 Mar 17	Mask of the Herald	Her sharp mouth, again,
	2000 Mar 20	Angels, Whenever You Cough	Instruction none of us are free
	2000 Mar 31	Vacuity's Gin Rots One's Pudenda	'Just the place for a Snark!', the Boatman cried
	2000 Apr 3	Whose Other Stomach?	Underneath my Mother Tongue
	2000 Apr 5	Fraternal Greetings To Reverend Cuticle's Oppossum	Arabella Spommit had three cousins slim and tall
	2000 Apr 5	Heather Eliot's Bottom Line	April is the cruellest month
	2000 Apr 10	To The Goatherds	When asked to choose an Antipope
	2000 Apr 24	Felicity Kendall's Lovely Armpits	When you said you were my friend
	2000 May 3	My Nightly Righteous Ferment	I think that I shall never see
	2000 May 8	Endlessly Transitory	When my Doppelganger calls
	2000 May 9	I'm Pitifully Happy Wherever There Are Spoonbills	My life is like an open road (yes, people walk on me)
	2000 May 11	Surely it behoves us to grant...	In Istanbul
	2000 May 14	Ramsgate Station (1066)	When mice attack a quarter-back
	2000 May 15	Drinking Electricity (Sonnet)	One sonnet is too short to tell the charms
	2000 May 16	Unless They Get Mistresses	Sweet nymph, though thou art ever im my dreams
	2000 May 17	My French Bananas Of Unbounded Magnificence	When teaching Granny to suck eggs
	2000 May 22	The Puissance In American Adverbs	The cake of opportunity must be eaten whilst it's fresh
	2000 May 23	Hengist's coming to get you, Horsa	In Persia's lands, there is a wisp that terrifies the priests.
	2000 May 24	Is My Navel Growing?	What is that great black bird I see?
	2000 May 30	Duck Soup Stories	When Duck and Gerbil went adventuring
	2000 Jun 6	That's That Over With	In the beginning was the Herd:
	2000 Jun 6	Goats Cannae Knit	There was a young man from Kilbride
	2000 Jun 8	Courtly Like The Dancing Cobra	My brides lined up in order
	2000 Jun 12	Our Ugliest Newly-Weds Disgust Me	A feast of fumes, a feast of fumes
	2000 Jun 13	To Hypnotise Badgers Bereft Of Discretion	Across the hills a cry rang out:
	2000 Jun 14	Sparklingly Devoid Of Interest	What is a thruttock? questioned Sam
	2000 Jun 20	Nevertheless, Nuke the French	Each time I use the word 'defer'
	2000 Jun 25	Underneath The Forest Wall	Calypso, on her vaulting-horse
	2000 Jun 29	Eggs And Artillery	The gambler folds his hand and sets his gaze
	2000 Jul 10	Totally Dissimilar Sausages (With Mustard)	As I was walking all alone
	2000 Jul 22	Mr Stilton Stalks The Underground	As I was going up the stair, I met a froglet tall and square.
	2000 Jul 27	B-Flat Tonsils	Down in New York City is a craze that's hit the streets
	2000 Jul 31	It's Meadowlark Lemmon	In the dead of night, lit by pale moonlight
	2000 Aug 14	Birthdays Passed Without Mints	August presence or August presents, what will be thy choice?
	2000 Sep 11	Slander Me!	I'm the child of a Red Road skyscraper.
	2000 Oct 3	Whose Shift Avoids Whose Pellicule?	The grumpy armadillo sat in front of his computer
	2000 Oct 25	Recriminations Against The Hideous Nymphet	In olden days, a glimpse of Hockney
	2000 Nov 3	Bees Hover Like Bees	Never, in the field behind the gasworks
	2000 Nov 8	Spanner Hatred	Now the fat is in the fire
	2000 Nov 21	Favourite Cheese-Mongers	Beefy, Loaf and Costorphine all went upon a jaunt,
	2000 Nov 23	Undo My Start	Painting the Register Office
	2000 Nov 23	My goodness... my gumboot	Apsley wrote a novel about a small baboon
	2000 Nov 23	Always Blithering	When ducks and drakes meet late at night
	2000 Nov 25	Argentina Is Imaginary	Who predates this predator
	2000 Nov 27	Fantastic Tabletop Of Suction	Rebuke, like gossip from the sun
	2000 Dec 1	'Destiny', Said Chastity, 'Doesn't Fulfil'	Your new line will go here
	2000 Dec 5	If Sluices Matter	Incas ... dreadful drinkers,
	2000 Dec 13	Getting to Loathe You	Dinner jacket,, morning-suit
	2000 Dec 14	Happy Those Who Bother Not To Wash Emus	Now is the time for joyful feasts
	2000 Dec 15	I Stagger Under Fourfold Fardels	Time and again, with weary tread
	2000 Dec 19	Deserts East of Harwich	Living in a dream
	2000 Dec 25	Titograd Cathedral, Fatuous In Defeat	Waltzing through the alley-way
	2001 Jan 1	No Cat's Trousers	Pelting down the motorway, with my wheels of fire,
	2001 Jan 9	Iced Mohicans, Anyone?	Zoroaster sunnily bestows his
	2001 Jan 10	Nasty, Nasty	The gremlins in my kitchen make
	2001 Jan 20	Offhand Emblem	If the captain's metaphysic
	2001 Jan 23	A Vain Attempt in English to Accommodate Divers	The hour of innocence, of hopes and dreams
	2001 Feb 16	Palfreyman In Switzerland	Doubled up with laughter, trebled up with woe
	2001 Feb 27	Captain Scott's Implosion	At dawn we slew another pig
	2001 Mar 11	Fleeing, The Sticky Eremite Scratches	Poetry and Poesy declined to fight a duel,
	2001 Apr 20	Conception By Maidens (Anchovie's Verses)	How long will you be up there?
	2001 Apr 29	Lost Meanings of Turkestan	Show me a mirror and I'll
	2001 May 1	Tumbling Kills. Water Falls.	Carrie was an acrobat who fell upon her head
	2001 May 21	False Tales of My Calumny	Bring me an egg-whisk, and sand-blast my shoes!
	2001 May 30	Whenever Angels Return to Hampshire	Coming back from London Zoo
	2001 Jun 19	Are You the Last Paradigm?	In France, there is a little town
	2001 Jun 28	I'm Washing Pyjamas for Lunatics	Drunken badgers and their TVs
	2001 Jul 18	Arctic Charlie	When singing to potatoes, the cowboy always stutters;
	2001 Jul 27	Impertinent Desires	The Scandinavian roll-mop
	2001 Aug 9	She Performed Badly	Young Margaret was a silly girl
	2001 Aug 10	Seaside Hallucination (Felixstowe Docks)	The shores of sand stood up and waved
	2001 Aug 13	Biography	Helena was born in a pub
	2001 Aug 20	Near the Symbolist Palace of Atrocities	We start our tale outside a German wood
	2001 Aug 22	Light Grey Sunshine	Groatweed grows by every verge
	2001 Sep 4	Kylie, Dark Illusion	I unfolded my favourite handkerchief slowly
	2001 Sep 5	Quiet Teatime Moments	The carrot spoke too sweetly
	2001 Sep 24	Cartwright's Innocence Unleashed	Along the mute canal
	2001 Sep 28	Dagenham Cakeshop	Tie me to the lamp-post with a silken thread
	2001 Sep 30	Hugh's Underpants Defy Dogma	Staggering across the heath
	2001 Oct 2	Misconduct With Whosoever Chooseth	Welcome to the conversation
	2001 Oct 2	Very Old Highlanders	Angels in the centrifuge
	2001 Oct 5	Culling Ear-Trumpets by the Ganges	When Nylon paves the way for silk
	2001 Oct 8	From Chocolate Time-Zones	Her eye is not my voice
	2001 Nov 1	Television Penis Disenfranchisement	Born with magic pubic hair
	2001 Nov 8	Wittgenstein's Spare Puma	Nascent longing, unrecognized, but pure:
	2001 Nov 8	Clothes Pegs	For a man of the cloth
	2001 Nov 17	Lenten Orgy	A pint of gin to steel the nerves
	2001 Nov 20	Lechery's Appraisal	I loved her hazel eyes so much
	2001 Nov 22	Let's Have Time to Fondle	Being a tomato-knife
	2001 Dec 7	North-South Pedestrian Crossings	These suicides, who strut the streets
	2001 Dec 10	Twenty-Three Costermonger High-Road	Two-ring circus, one horse town
	2001 Dec 12	Stanley Knife, Solid Flesh	Alone
	2001 Dec 13	She boils	In its own bottle
	2001 Dec 18	Lesbians of Yesteryear	The Crossbill, famed in Nordic lore
	2001 Dec 19	Brute Pesto Lollipop (Intolerance)	The gate is torn asunder there
	2001 Dec 23	Behind Bermondsey Bridge	Butterfingers Battersea
	2001 Dec 30	Attempts To Separate Meniscus from Surface	Our lady of Sligo
	2002 Jan 7	Mitochondrial Ne'er-do-wells	Carved in frozen gasoline
	2002 Jan 9	Is Santa Powerless?	No man is an isthmus
	2002 Jan 14	Fawning Without Distinction	My regard for you does not acknowledge borders!
	2002 Jan 16	Beckettt's Crispy Pacific Noodles	'The stratosphere is not so near,'
	2002 Jan 18	Love Icily Visible	Bones and twigs and a perilous ascent
	2002 Jan 22	Tundra Nightmares	Woolly mammoth, now unravelled
	2002 Jan 28	Who Wobbles Behind the Arras?	Champagne was flowing down the stairs, perhaps.
	2002 Feb 4	Pay for Teddy-bears	By the black infernal Styx I sat
	2002 Feb 7	Heroic, We Know Nothing	Boil my leg before you go -
	2002 Mar 5	The Dockland Proxy	The caramel wafer was tempting and thin:
	2002 Mar 7	Gingerbread Housing Corporation	Gretel's luxuriant hairy schnauzer was a bitch!
	2002 Mar 13	Eliot's Daily Variations	The flat sky
	2002 Mar 14	Nowhere Quickly Pales	When the last train left the station
	2002 Apr 4	Fugitive and Funcle	Reading avidly, yet slowly, I devoured the novel.
	2002 Apr 11	The Maritime Suction	On this desolate beach, a lost trinket
	2002 Apr 19	Tennyson's Untreated Butane Vat Goes Whoosh	Come into the garden, John, for the dark bat night has teeth
	2002 May 8	My Lion-hearted Friend Edgar	The tiger hunting in the dusk
	2002 May 8	Cuttlebone Sandwiches	Giants, in their tiny way,
	2002 May 11	Exculpatory Dancing	Giants, in their tedious way
	2002 May 14	Gabriel's Hiccoughs	Sledgehammer? I thought to use a shovel
	2002 May 16	That's the Ticket!	A Hindu Deity is often blessed
	2002 Jun 11	Testimonial for Pier Café Raiders	Long, long ago, in old Tashkent
	2002 Jun 25	Life Doesn't Fester	Responsibility for life on earth
	2002 Jun 30	Compromises	I ponder what I dare not do,
	2002 Jul 12	Immediately to the North of Dorking	A friendly leaf once gave me quite a fright:
	2002 Jul 18	Professor Branestawm Finally Succumbs	This so-called portrait of the Bard
	2002 Jul 29	One Scourge Too Far From Home	Imagine that! My little cat
	2002 Aug 2	Limerick Folly	The funny thing is, remarked Fred
	2002 Aug 7	Carp of a Thousand Drums	Exactly how surreal do you fish?
	2002 Aug 24	Another Hairless Igloo Objects	Replace mine injured planet
	2002 Sep 9	Mix My Chickens	Torn off a strip
	2002 Sep 10	Ill-qualified for Hoping	Dodging through the rainbows
	2002 Sep 14	Loaf Mumbles Loaf	Punished for his extra ears
	2002 Sep 21	Our Lissom Laureate	When you wish upon a stoat
	2002 Sep 24	Machine Coffee: Grounds for Divorce	Estimate the water's depth
	2002 Sep 28	By Any Drowned Pavilion	Guacamole, whose brindled haunch
	2002 Oct 3	Impersonating Nelson for Fun!	As fine a feast as man has known
	2002 Oct 4	Why not experience leprosy first-hand?	There is deep water everywhere
	2002 Oct 5	Erupting Like Flamingoes	Gone, the subtle;
	2002 Oct 10	Trouser Leopard	Frowsy Frederick did foretell fate,
	2002 Oct 15	Underneath Seattle	Bazooka? Not in my bit of jungle!
	2002 Oct 21	Electon	'Cobblers, plain bloody cobblers', the fireman roared,
	2002 Oct 22	Rescued From My Defects	There upon the ceiling, in a pattern rich and rare,
	2002 Nov 1	A Virgin's Twelve Testicles	Such a vile winter! Warm in nooks
	2002 Nov 4	Longings for Celibacy	How hideous the passion!
	2002 Nov 12	A New Golem School	Your lack of understanding
	2002 Nov 14	Seasons Intemperate	If ever I should leave you, it might as well be now
	2002 Nov 15	Halibut Without	I ate my salad in a huff:
	2002 Nov 19	Shake My Garnish	Let us go then, you and I,
	2002 Nov 21	Britney's in Purdah	When poets strive against the muse
	2002 Nov 25	On Undies	Quality control for underwear,
	2002 Nov 26	Matter, Not Marmite	Burnt his fez upon the pyre?
	2002 Nov 27	Wenches, Rogues, Wrestlers	Not spacious, like a blunderbus
	2002 Nov 27	Shriven	Most cats repent of all their sins
	2002 Nov 28	Urging My Example Slowly	She placed the diamond on her toe,
	2002 Nov 29	Swimming for Pilgrims	What cloud through yonder window frowns?
	2002 Dec 3	Life-Threatening Tuesday Mornings	Where is fester? What is he?
	2002 Dec 6	When the Spanish Attack	Who dares cross the line?
	2002 Dec 9	Documentary Highlight	In the depths of Epping town
	2002 Dec 12	Big Orchids In Dead Marriage	My dove, Suzette, she lays in wait
	2002 Dec 14	Having Stacy In Song	Why don't we rename Christmas?
	2002 Dec 24	Because I've Died Peacefully Enough	A pint of Scruttock's in my hand
	2002 Dec 31	CaTacLySm	i SPEAK in CAPITALS quasi-random
	2003 Jan 3	My Liverpool Lament	Percival the scouse louse
	2003 Jan 8	Please Not Sideways, Arabella	Dreary as a paper towel
	2003 Jan 9	I'll Surely Trample Your Tractor, My Love	I had a little tractor
	2003 Jan 9	In Lemons	Why, tell me why, is the future so green?
	2003 Jan 12	Commentary Arising From My Previous Uncials	Another riposte
	2003 Jan 17	Rumour Pills	Licensed to kill, my dear
	2003 Jan 25	Beyond Bursting-Point	I walk a mile each day before my tea
	2003 Jan 30	Peace Comes Drivelling	We were a million strong and growing
	2003 Feb 7	Control of Our Feet in Darkness	Moonlight softened the angry lines
	2003 Feb 11	Overtures Misunderstood	Why are men so damn complex?
	2003 Feb 20	Acrimony for Unknown Pontiffs	Doctrine of the spiral stair
	2003 Feb 20	Immediately Nobody	The cobbler, blind for seven years
	2003 Mar 18	A Relativity Prayer Shawl Thrown Aside	I quaffed nine cups of joe this morn
	2003 Mar 28	Tendentious Reassurances	Another thousand syllables
	2003 Apr 1	Woeful Enigma	My notion of 'A Life of Woe'
	2003 Apr 18	Accidents to Unwary Playmates	In the timeless forests of the north
	2003 Apr 22	Unsaid, Unsaid	The red poem remains unread
	2003 May 3	Fruitful Duck Soup	My goldfish likes to do the monkey bars
	2003 May 16	Those Who Can't Defy	So many works, untitled and unsung
	2003 May 18	Laughing Down by the Maelstrom	Behind the nipple's cruel intent
	2003 May 30	Hilariously Pregnant	I guffaw but twice per night,
	2003 Jun 16	Swinging the Tarzan	They trained me, from mine early years
	2003 Jun 16	Perhaps	And I thought it might be morning
	2003 Jun 16	Tiny Problems	Like hoarfrost on the juniper
	2003 Jun 17	Afterglow/Puzzle	The pallid young apprentice
	2003 Jun 18	Turned on by Ghostwriters	A flock of hungry magpies came
	2003 Jun 19	Uneven Recipe	A rushing tide, a rushing tide
	2003 Jun 20	If Cocoa Couldn't (Allegory)	"Chocolate! Give me chocolate!", the woman screamed
	2003 Jun 21	My Habitat of Unkempt Mincemeat	Coconuts are hard to peel
	2003 Jun 21	Awakening the Aluminum Jetsam	A paper, a line, a bubble, a tin
	2003 Jun 21	Tinkle Tempest Soldier	The archive of memory refused to stir
	2003 Jun 21	In Time (Full Icebox)	Without you
	2003 Jun 23	Abandon Malfeasance, My Cobweb Doctor	You wouldn't want a cobweb
	2003 Jun 23	Secret Habitude with Men	She frolicks gaily, like a goat
	2003 Jun 24	A Vagabond Lacking Cunning	"Better", I told him, "you had left your seed unsown"
	2003 Jun 24	The Pastry Cups	How noble is the nobleman
	2003 Jun 24	Iambic Portrait of Montalban	Ricardo's toupee hasn't aged but a day
	2003 Jun 24	Playland Smack	Raggedy-Ann has a heroin habit
	2003 Jun 26	Epic Gorgonzola Quest	In China, once, an Emperor
	2003 Jul 1	Armageddon Horses D'Oeuvres Changes Course	Plague and Pestilence sat down by the fire
	2003 Jul 10	Ketchup Alchemy	A red hen, convinced that her eggs were sublime,
	2003 Jul 17	Ode to the Televangelists	They
	2003 Jul 17	Like the Inner Feathers of Earth	How frothy do these suds appear
	2003 Jul 17	Gentrification is a Giggle	Whene'er I see a falling star
	2003 Jul 17	To Birds	The geese were flying high, the ducks
	2003 Jul 17	Cosmos Twirls	Your new line will go here
	2003 Jul 17	Vogons In Love	Smudge me, I am yours
	2003 Jul 17	Whether the Dweebs	One summer afternoon, the snow was all around
	2003 Jul 17	Enough Is	Here, there and everywhere
	2003 Jul 17	Hope Squeals 'Wahoo!"	Dispel those neverending qualms
	2003 Jul 17	Longing	Oh, my God, it never ends
	2003 Jul 17	Euthansia without Gregariousness	How often have I pruned a tree
	2003 Jul 17	Unshorn	Ubiquity is the folly of unshorn llamas
	2003 Jul 18	Empty Promises among the Symbols of the North	Ampersand, I love thee
	2003 Jul 18	Was the...?	Every hepcat under heaven
	2003 Jul 18	Again We Raise the Standards of Poetry Crimes Against Humanity	The slate is clean, the ink is fresh
	2003 Jul 18	The Lycanthropes Are Eternally Grateful For Your Cooperation In These Matters Of	Preposterous! She cried
	2003 Jul 18	Untitled	Why must you tinkle in your pants?
	2003 Jul 18	Untitled	Children put on your thinking caps
	2003 Jul 18	Bemused	How blithely do the crackerjacks
	2003 Jul 18	Untitled	Remove your babuskha, mister
	2003 Jul 18	Untitled	I wish it were true that piggies flew
	2003 Jul 18	A Royal Disaster	Indeed the overweening queen
	2003 Jul 18	Wienerpome	Our story was unfinished! We had not reached the end
	2003 Jul 18	Untitled	Brothels on the hill, tra la
	2003 Jul 19	She-devils Unruly	How are you doing, Mr. Slurb?
	2003 Jul 19	Gargling Troubadours	Why must you gargle on the couch?
	2003 Jul 19	Lunar Sunsets	That moon is not an aspirin
	2003 Jul 19	Untitled	These lovely fruit loops in my lap, these hairpins on my dog
	2003 Jul 19	Untitled	Free verse is my favorite form and so I say to you, "Garbanzo"
	2003 Jul 19	Untitled	Ten pennies, three shillings and a paper clip
	2003 Jul 19	Untitled	Francine can you fix the executioner line to fit the meter?
	2003 Jul 19	TITLESGOHERE	Francine, are you here?
	2003 Jul 19	Omphalos	(haiku) Three rings on my nose
	2003 Jul 19	Scrapple Lovin'	My headcheese does stink
	2003 Jul 19	Lifecycle: Forlorn Flapping	How blithely do we misuse this site and yet it does deserve it
	2003 Jul 19	Untitled	(haiku) When once I stood upon
	2003 Jul 19	Woof	I submit that we are not alone
	2003 Jul 19	Untitled	Corky has a brand new wife
	2003 Jul 19	Untitled	Heebie jeebies, toil and trouble
	2003 Jul 20	Unhealthy Backlash Cliches	I fear my favorite pollywog has indigestion
	2003 Jul 21	Separation Athletic	My love is sailing to Toledo
	2003 Jul 21	The Snoring Sombreros	I've never known a munchkin like you, Nadine.
	2003 Jul 21	Giraffe Shoe Happenstances	Would you care to multiply?
	2003 Jul 22	The Hopscotches are Growling	The Creature wouldn't seem so bad if only he spoke clearly
	2003 Jul 22	Cactus Ants	Ants are smart, oh they're smart, oh they think they're so smart
	2003 Jul 23	Whales are Silent Warriors	Little children, gather 'round and I will tell a tale
	2003 Jul 23	Nighttime Paddling	The sky was dark, and rain was falling
	2003 Jul 24	But for the Headaches	You may think that it's time for a rhyme
	2003 Jul 24	Boots of Silly Leather	Silly Sally from the valley liked to dilly dally
	2003 Jul 24	Rain is No Substitute	In shimmering skies the clouds were humming
	2003 Jul 24	Work and Home	work, my work, i hate my work
	2003 Jul 24	Forever Spinning	Spinning, falling,
	2003 Jul 25	Oddments From the Bookstores	The shelving groaned with weight tomes
	2003 Jul 25	Hunt Within	The ancient hunter stood proudly
	2003 Jul 26	Will Oceans Devour the Unforeseen Goats?	The rains had not come that year
	2003 Jul 26	Starfish Footwear	If starfish wore shoes
	2003 Jul 26	The Yellow Sofa	Tommy, where is my yellow scarf?
	2003 Jul 27	Wiggles in Spain	The bubble bath! The bubble bath! I float in pink champagne.
	2003 Jul 28	Gingersnaps (Why Dress Up?)	Maxine's coming into town, but look at all this
	2003 Jul 28	Gilbert, With Giants in Hand	Have you met my wee friend, Gilbert?
	2003 Jul 28	Knowledge Couth Forsooth	There are many things you do not know
	2003 Jul 28	Lost Lies Under	Under the covers, bodies move
	2003 Jul 30	Brian's Life of Impostion	Hierarchs with open mouths
	2003 Jul 30	Not For Edification	Of brooding springs, and hooting rocks
	2003 Jul 30	Tea Calms, Warmth Invades	My tea warms my hands
	2003 Jul 30	Dog Life Dance	There once was a dog named Mollie
	2003 Jul 31	A Prior Rainbow	Red was the color of my true love's knuckles.
	2003 Jul 31	Sow Succcess	I'm pregnant and I don't know why
	2003 Aug 1	Evenings Much Like This	There is magic in the air tonight
	2003 Aug 1	A Style of Dancing I Remember	Scarlett and Rhett decided to pet
	2003 Aug 3	Ounces of Hidden Obviousness	I got the "I Ain't Got Nuthin' to be Blue About" blues
	2003 Aug 3	In Awe of Dangerous Lives	Far beyond the red-black morning sky
	2003 Aug 3	You Cannot Steal Diamons	I cannot help but feel that if only I had
	2003 Aug 3	When Mice Lust	Speaking of teeth and mice
	2003 Aug 4	Fate Knocks at Victorian Doors	There was a young plumber from Dorset
	2003 Aug 4	Morning	Waking up at sparrow's fart
	2003 Aug 4	She Never Surrenders Without A...	She is a lady in her heart
	2003 Aug 5	Tipi, Living	Sam lived in a jerrybuilt sheet-metal tipi.
	2003 Aug 5	Argument Can't	Why should I even try to convince you
	2003 Aug 5	Denied Dreams	The long body-swept grass
	2003 Aug 6	Ode to the Attic	Let us praise the humble ceiling fan.
	2003 Aug 6	Garden Shoes of the Vaudeville Monsters	Monsters in the garden
	2003 Aug 6	Anyone Who Whinges Can Go Elsewhere	MORE LIMERICKS!
	2003 Aug 7	Here Moon, There Another	We sailed on the third of July
	2003 Aug 7	Apocalypse (Soon)	A sodium glow smolders in the sky
	2003 Aug 8	Management Evoked	How do you feel about Life?
	2003 Aug 8	Vogon Blood Music	Oh fratulous wrontings, enfrog me
	2003 Aug 11	Billboards, Numbers, and the Signs for Heaven	There once was a poet of note
	2003 Aug 14	It's the Spuds' Malevolence	With sinister speed, they come and go
	2003 Aug 14	Pollyanna Has Mugged Me	Like a small child in a candy store
	2003 Aug 14	Clique That Promises Exploitation	Candidates Promises
	2003 Aug 14	Semantics Alone	At 4 o'clock on Sunday, with nothing much to do
	2003 Aug 15	Havoc with Spring-Loaded Crutches	The worm has made our cities black
	2003 Aug 15	Melons In December	I like bananas, because they have no bones
	2003 Aug 17	Where Computations Love Cabbage Soup	An inauspicious bread-line debut
	2003 Aug 18	Farce Of	Types of Medical Coverage
	2003 Aug 18	Exemptions for the Uneducated Lozenge	THREE WORDS PER LINE, UNRHYMED
	2003 Aug 19	Words Galore	Words to Live By
	2003 Aug 19	Tricky Fellow Am I	Multiple line submissions
	2003 Aug 19	When Sheep Moo	When spoonbilling, always say "boo!"
	2003 Aug 20	That Memory of No-One	My eyes have grown too tired for seeing
	2003 Aug 20	Stop	A poem sat, neglected, unloved
	2003 Aug 20	Down Hallways and Corridors	Keats and Sandburg, Dickinson, Yeats
	2003 Aug 22	Licks For Kicks	With the first light of dawn, the great armies gather
	2003 Aug 22	Superhighway Of Discontent	Cyberspace is crumbling
	2003 Aug 24	Topological Jam	I bought a jar of marmalade, paid quite a little sum
	2003 Aug 25	Belief Now!	For all of you that don't believe in unicorns
	2003 Aug 25	Why is Rain?	The rain fell only between the hours of 6 and 7
	2003 Aug 25	I Shall Cope	My, my! All my underpants are gone!
	2003 Aug 26	Rich Tarts' Applause	When I was young, I was terribly poor
	2003 Aug 27	The Innocent Murder of Fire	I see the walking dead, the fire in their eyes
	2003 Aug 28	In My Dreams of Paint	I hear you are sailing to Lesbos
	2003 Aug 28	If Oblivion Had Foes	If everything that you had ever known
	2003 Aug 29	Storm the Language Barricade!	Latin died and Gaelic's not so well
	2003 Aug 30	Permanent Perdition	Have you ever felt vibrating oscillatons?Perhaps reverberating resonations?
	2003 Aug 30	Why Death Is	Twice I read your will
	2003 Sep 2	If You Were Unveiling	Things I would do if I were a cowboy:
	2003 Sep 2	Our Snotty Pim	I bought a cute puppet named Pim
	2003 Sep 2	No Week Planner	Monday's light brought dreams of birth
	2003 Sep 3	Sweet Global Soup	Across the time-zones, rhymesters meet
	2003 Sep 3	Tim the Godfearing Scientist	There once was a boffin called Tim
	2003 Sep 4	Puzzled Monkey	There once was a Coventry Monkey
	2003 Sep 4	A Pointy Neck	Why do people stare at me?
	2003 Sep 4	Avoid Big Pies	I once knew a Heywood Jablome
	2003 Sep 5	Wonders Nobody Knows	Double-u double-u double-u dot
	2003 Sep 5	The Holiest Glue	Religions I am Considering Joining
	2003 Sep 6	Googlewhacking Report	Tragically, we must report this sad fact:
	2003 Sep 8	Insupportable Toothbrushes	The dream went to sleep,
	2003 Sep 10	A Romatic Ending	Beth and Lee got hitched in Vegas
	2003 Sep 13	Cash Elegy	Let us praise a country maestro: Johnny Cash
	2003 Sep 16	Pub Coquettes	Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face
	2003 Sep 16	5-7-5 Harmony	Refuge I must seek
	2003 Sep 17	Where Eagles Dribble	Privet skirts the aerodrome
	2003 Sep 18	Genesis is the Only Truth	O Universe, O sparkling void, teach me of thy ways
	2003 Sep 19	Redemption of the Radishes	Blossoms the color of bruises
	2003 Sep 19	Floating My Delicious	Indescribably delicious doodads
	2003 Sep 19	The Effervescent Digest	If I ever went to Athens
	2003 Sep 20	Bubblegum and Scrabble	Lollipops and bubblegum, jujubes and dots
	2003 Sep 21	Ceaseless Efforts Conquer	I have not the courage to conquer life
	2003 Sep 22	Apologies To The Stovepipe Baby	You got a smile so sweet, you coulda been drip glucose
	2003 Sep 22	Emergency Headlessness	Emergency! Emergency!
	2003 Sep 22	Nirvana of Cleopatra	I made my peace with destiny and fate
	2003 Sep 23	The Wickedness of Luxor	There once was an arrogant Pharaoh
	2003 Sep 24	A Civilised Child, Lost for Moments	Into the unblinking eyes of children
	2003 Sep 24	The Sun-Drenched Arctic	Not my muscle!
	2003 Sep 24	Some Poet Unknown	May we address you in verse?
	2003 Sep 24	Recruitment Drive By The Bogus Snobbery Guardians	How to swell our number, how increase our ranks?
	2003 Sep 24	Texted Evolution	Wtih frsit and lsat ltteer in palce, it's siad any wrod can be raed
	2003 Sep 25	Disoriented	And now I leave this lunchtime land
	2003 Sep 25	A Melee Mightn't Make My Machinations Musical	To write a good poem several things are required
	2003 Sep 25	My Confession	‘Screech Screech’, screeched the cat
	2003 Sep 26	Camelot - an Ongoing Investigation	Long, long ago, in Camelot
	2003 Sep 29	Fellow Unravellers	I'd like to raise a glass to my friends across the sea
	2003 Sep 29	Hypothermic Ennui for Old Times	The leaves are turning brown again. I wonder how they know
	2003 Sep 30	Gravel for My Poignant Cotillion	Flippant poignancy
	2003 Sep 30	Times Square Dance	Piercing sunset with her hand
	2003 Oct 1	Tree Urchin	Under the shedding nose-nut tree
	2003 Oct 1	The Elemental Blimey	A wistful moment
	2003 Oct 2	Too Soon To Reconnoitre	Frozen embryos
	2003 Oct 2	Arts Other Than Those I Cherish	A gerbil in a racing car
	2003 Oct 2	Metamorphosis: You Cave In	Your chakra throbs with crystal chi
	2003 Oct 7	Cheesecake Factory Tour	Cheer up, here's Mister Milk
	2003 Oct 7	Dancing JCB	Let's build a mountain
	2003 Oct 8	Have Pickles, Everyone!	Pencilled eyebrows, shaven legs
	2003 Oct 13	Deep-Fried Nostalgia	Up your nose with a rubber hose
	2003 Oct 13	Gaugin, You Villain	See, saw; go, gone;
	2003 Oct 14	Blamobilog's Last Return	A vessel most unfit for sea
	2003 Oct 15	Lobbyists In Spoonland	Reverend Spooner, twice a day,
	2003 Oct 16	They Who Remove Buttons From Unsuspecting Harlots	Len reported Clara to the fashion commissar
	2003 Oct 19	Mary, Nary, Oh-So-Scary	"I never think when I can talk,"
	2003 Oct 21	Limerick About a Trout	Let us now swim in Lake Erie
	2003 Oct 22	The Halibut Swears To Attack	Majestic as a pikestaff was old Jim,
	2003 Oct 22	Regional Railway Sensibilities	Mostly air, my lost parade
	2003 Oct 23	The Frequency for Repaginated Ladies	Persephone once said to me
	2003 Oct 23	In Nougat	(haiku) Seven plumquats sit
	2003 Oct 24	Perhaps You Think I'll Hide	A walk in the park is all very nice
	2003 Oct 25	When I Glorify the Bike	I ride my bike around the house
	2003 Oct 26	The Cronyism of Songbirds	Smells like you're frying bologna
	2003 Oct 26	Nope to Blog	Quasi blog
	2003 Oct 29	Secretly, in Aberdeen	A day in the life of...
	2003 Oct 31	Why Do The Unusual? Why Not!	Why must you paint your toenails ruby red?
	2003 Nov 2	Pirates And Self-Loathing	A pattern is emerging
	2003 Nov 4	Milk Shouting Louder	This bottle of grease is empty!
	2003 Nov 6	The Makeup Trowel	Never have I seen a more delightful face than yours
	2003 Nov 6	Hairpiece	When you trim the hair away
	2003 Nov 7	What The Great Are	A corset for the cranium
	2003 Nov 7	Suck The Wonder	I wonder did you dance a Latin dance?
	2003 Nov 9	Bird Authors' Noble Claims	This poem was written by Walter Raleigh
	2003 Nov 10	Cluttered Nemesis	Clutch as clutch can
	2003 Nov 10	Yet Never Opens	Perfectly embedded in a blue-tooth net
	2003 Nov 11	Only Our Gambits Shall	'Incontinence for all!'
***	2003 Nov 14	Recycling Genesis	In the beginning Bob created the woman and the beer
	2003 Nov 14	Gumshoe In Divers Forests	I've never been the sort of man
	2003 Nov 16	Worse Than Any Titans	The next time you think that
	2003 Nov 16	Yes, The Very Air Isn't Breatheable Over Our Side	I see your shadow on the wall
	2003 Nov 17	Exceptional Disgrace	A mighty creature is the wife
	2003 Nov 17	The Anagrams Of Our Jumbled Selves	Compose a line: especial moon
	2003 Nov 18	The Gods Of My Great Grandfather	Begin again: restart anew
	2003 Nov 19	Ears Like Quinqueremes	Your ears are rather droopy
	2003 Nov 20	Twister Tokens	Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead
	2003 Nov 21	Burns With Mayflowers Downstream	My love is like a red, red nose
	2003 Nov 23	Boating Pleasures	We went to sea in a gravy boat one gray autumnal day
	2003 Nov 24	Reeling From The Effects Of Beer	Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall
	2003 Nov 24	The Food Of Minotaurs	I hear that you like pepperoni
	2003 Nov 25	Eardrums In The Dark Theatre	I never sensed a larger void
	2003 Nov 26	Breaking The Law Of Thermodynamics	I know the Spoonbill secret
	2003 Nov 27	Heresy Of Cosmic Sanity	The moon is made of cheese, and so
	2003 Nov 28	Palindromes, Madam?	Sex at one, Kate! Take no taxes
	2003 Nov 29	Dodgy Flaps	Too gracious for a moonlight flit
	2003 Nov 30	Often During Christmas	'Twas Christmas in the workhouse
	2003 Dec 1	English Literature Code	Rhyming isn't everything, and scansion's overrated
	2003 Dec 3	Things Like Cigars	"It's coming...like Christmas" they said
	2003 Dec 7	The Great White Blancmange Of God	Clutched against her breast
	2003 Dec 8	Drawn By The Pencils Of Night	When all the world is still and quiet
	2003 Dec 9	If I Illuminate Life Only Slightly, I Shall	I was born a prisoner in your dungeon of fish
	2003 Dec 10	If Wishes Were Geese, Nobody Would Honk	I knew a sinister minister
	2003 Dec 12	When I Splash	Sometimes I like to run around in just my underoos
	2003 Dec 15	Misuse Of That Darn Animal	Don't wear a cat for a hat
	2003 Dec 19	The Mundane Factory Blues	Number ninety-seven was a worker at the plant
	2003 Dec 22	About Buck	What a strange little boy is Timmy John Jones
	2003 Dec 29	Lament Not The Passing Of Haliborange	Twenty past midnight, I want to go home
	2004 Jan 3	On A String Covered Ottoman	Mistaken for a crayfish
	2004 Jan 7	Gums And Tongues	Out, fry of lechery?
	2004 Jan 9	Invaders From Rabbit-holes, Snout First	Mars is being explored--and wow, are we excited!
	2004 Jan 12	Imbibe This Page	I don't drinke vodka, only ginne -
	2004 Jan 14	Tabletop Heirs	I've never hit a man I didn't like
	2004 Jan 15	Non-invasive Skins	A poem without the same old format
	2004 Jan 16	Sector Vector Ejector	In this one thing all others meet
	2004 Jan 17	Madwoman, Me?	She's come undone--her valium useless as mythical gods
	2004 Jan 20	Alexander's Shadow Ring-pull	Take five, my little feathered friends
	2004 Jan 20	Despite Differences In Our Neckties	Judicious pruning - of a bush -
	2004 Jan 21	The Comma Which Causes	Let's desist, this time, from writing trash,
	2004 Jan 22	Arthur Sucking Cough Drops	Shall I start a new poem or will it get trashed?
	2004 Jan 25	Rural Consternation	My sister's just ripped a tractor in two
	2004 Jan 26	Won't You, Suzanne?	I read the rules with some concern
	2004 Jan 26	Well-wisher's Bride	The grandpaternity suit
	2004 Jan 29	Frugal Jars Of Mine Filled With Other Piglets	It's a glossary, they claim,
	2004 Jan 29	Evening Along Its Transverse Axis	This caustic little ditty
	2004 Jan 30	Balletic Tropism	The crutch on which you make your way
	2004 Feb 2	Pale Mutabilities Of Death In Wales	Forget them all, their necks, their eyes
	2004 Feb 3	All That Blisters	Have more wine and honey, darling,
	2004 Feb 4	Borders For Uncle Monk	'Quite a clump,' he summarised
	2004 Feb 13	Harvest Me Gently Yet	There's many pheasant pluckers farm life's field
	2004 Feb 15	Unblinking Again	Atop my desk, her portrait stared
	2004 Feb 17	Perpetual Hermeneutic Of Girl-Guides	When the pressure on our thinking
	2004 Feb 22	Harvested From Unsavoury Pulpits	Only a man.
	2004 Feb 29	The Birdbath Embargo	Here in Munich's age-old centre
	2004 Mar 2	To Strive For Dizzying Perfection	To get into the Hall of Fame
	2004 Mar 5	Punctuated Parsimony	There' s no use whining
	2004 Mar 16	To Your Abiding Toadstools	A granite sheet does not get crumpled,
	2004 Mar 18	Custom Paintwork Jobs	Good citizens, attend this moral tale
	2004 Mar 25	Cardinal In Error	A pepperoni sandwich from the Pope
	2004 Mar 31	Hammerklavier, Dissonantly	The late sonatas on a lute?
	2004 Apr 1	Attention: Recurring Decimal	Poor Jones got hanged - and yet I know 'twas
	2004 Apr 15	Businessman In Loose Flannels	Watch out for my claim
	2004 Apr 19	Chesse-topped Minstrels	This diversion - to the moon! -
	2004 Apr 25	My Slide Transmission	Another Red poem commences
	2004 Apr 29	Marmots Roam Willy-nilly Across Naked And Glistening Tundras	Make love to me as if you'd spent
	2004 May 11	Zarathustra Lurking In The Out-tray	Colossal, in a home-made hat
	2004 May 17	Oversight Of The Acrosticial	When any lowbrow tunesmith offers notes
	2004 May 26	Profit From Jaaaaazzzzzzzz	When any lowbrow tunesmith offers notes
	2004 May 27	Keeping Her Through Ignorance	Let's not expect the moon
	2004 Jun 2	Intensify The Passion For Ophthalmology	Bigfoot saw the racehorse
	2004 Jun 10	In The Seventh Parcel Are Several Businessmen	When pass-the-parcel palls
	2004 Jun 14	Palomar Mentors	Got Venus in my Transit
	2004 Jun 17	Ages Rush By, Unremarked By Anyone	What shall we do today, my dear, where would you like to go
	2004 Jun 21	Chirping By Other Means	Yeast admixed with poisoned brine
	2004 Jul 2	The Universe Eyed From The Back Row	Leonardo da Vinci
	2004 Jul 7	Tin-openers Practising What?	Meander into Shropshire, in the old MG,
	2004 Jul 8	Purse Maps	In the second shopping-trolley
	2004 Jul 21	Dreams Of Soup Kitchens	A mile or so beyond
	2004 Aug 4	Nightly Coal Kimono	These cosy virtuosi
	2004 Aug 5	To The Nth Decree	These brief lines
	2004 Aug 9	Buns Beyond Sunset	Breathlessly, you claim to be
	2004 Aug 13	Perdition In Vitro	When I went to the bar as a very young man
	2004 Aug 18	Evidence From Pablum Mechanics	It isn't right, it isn't wrong
	2004 Aug 25	While Parachutes Descend Upon Unsuspecting Parsons	To build a good business you must
	2004 Aug 27	Boot Cramp Without Due Cause	Be loyal to your captain, soldier: he was once a man like you
	2004 Aug 30	Travelers That Float	A flibbertigibbet you are, aha!
	2004 Aug 31	The Deepest, Darkest Regions Inside My Colon	Whenever I go for a smoke
	2004 Sep 2	Dice In The Ovens Of Rheims	The early bird, that gets the lion's share
	2004 Sep 7	Culinary Experts Seldom Agree	Add some resin to the pulp, and deftly stir:
	2004 Sep 12	One Apostate Fieldmouse Alone In All Conjecture	Ignorance, in former times
	2004 Sep 14	Juicy John Chest Unit	Yield unto me, maiden fresh,
	2004 Sep 16	Lamentations Upon The Morrow	I stare into myself, hoping for redress
	2004 Sep 18	The Morsel Of Reason	Rare confection - of delight!
	2004 Oct 8	If Kipling Required Satisfaction	If all the buyers faced this way
	2004 Oct 14	The Jurisprudence Of Aquatic Creatures	the egret watched the passing ship
	2004 Oct 17	Dunciad Of Love-sick Hands	To fetishise her silhouette
	2004 Oct 22	Pharyngitis Spells Trouble	Unbridled is your sense of fear
	2004 Nov 23	Generally Too Much Opulence	How lithely do these lilliputians leap
	2004 Nov 29	Predicated Upon Juvenile Ignorance	The bishop, in his water-wig
	2004 Dec 10	The Mean Spirit Inside My Frog	Toasting bread is rarely easy
	2005 Jan 6	I Surface Behind The Lamps	A pelvis drowned in custard
	2005 Jan 16	Embonpoint Sandwiches	Globe and Jerusalem, we venerate
	2005 Jan 28	Puberty Before Breakfast	Chastising priests becomes a sport
	2005 Feb 9	Skin For Us Those Infidel Shareholders	An agéd man in green I saw
	2005 Feb 16	Nantucket Disappointment	There was a young man from Nantucket
	2005 Feb 18	Novelistic Leaflets	Russell Hoban, King of Thrace,
	2005 Feb 28	Custard Pied Wagtail	Gurgling free
	2005 Mar 17	Poor Semblance Of Artistic Metaphors	Prodigiously attractive
	2005 Jul 1	Liturgically Challenged Papists Vainly Seeking Pomp	Her velvet trousers, on the bed
	2005 Jul 6	Lucy In Torment	Pastry-forks were just the thing -
	2005 Aug 8	Apparatus For Removing Apparatus	Algorithms for the blind
	2005 Aug 12	Nostrils, Each	Despite a severe anaesthetic
	2005 Aug 23	Help! Aunt Potter Stole My Neckerchief	Trust me with your pudding store
	2005 Sep 3	Crustaceans In Error	To wait upon the late express
	2005 Sep 4	Monetarists	In flowerdome five
	2005 Sep 8	The Railway Couplet Detected	From the bottom of my foot
	2005 Sep 11	In Past Emporia	One for sorrow, two for fish
	2005 Sep 24	Platonic Scooter Or Worse	Banish poets? To The Pole?
	2005 Oct 11	Gabriel, So Rotund	It's a wonderful life, to be sure
	2005 Oct 13	The Final Acorn	From Sparta to Spain
	2005 Oct 16	Unlikely Caretaker In Kansas	When Pinter won the Nobel Prize
	2005 Oct 25	Seldom So Frequently	Gone before its time
	2005 Nov 12	Amsterdam Transfers	These canals are full of fish?!
	2005 Nov 14	Rorschach Fondling	With sorghum, millet, rice and oats
	2005 Nov 18	Pleasure for Godmothers	Buckets of slime
	2005 Nov 29	Lament: Austere Nightly Beatings	Retribution, hard as stolen milk,
	2005 Dec 15	Hosiery On Half-forgotten Nuns	Corset strung as tight as tight,
	2005 Dec 23	Abundance Throughout Pompeii	In these forests, aroundabout,
	2006 Jan 10	Nobody Shaves Oswald	In search of the perfect asparagus
	2006 Feb 1	Tombola Parking	When at night I go to sleep
	2006 Feb 16	Eating The Accountants Until Babbage Leaves	How we wonder, how we wonder
	2006 Feb 22	Lesbian Cookbook Virtues	Call your mother now and then
	2006 Jun 25	Beyond The Twelfth Night Service Desk	The faded lilies by the wall
	2006 Jul 7	51 Flavours of Diffusion	So very far from welcome
	2006 Jul 18	Void Of Open Finery	Beringed, beribboned, clad in silks
	2006 Aug 1	Nothing But Our Static Senses	The Witch-Queen wrought an awful curse:
	2006 Aug 23	Night From Midnight	The Gates of Ivory and Horn
	2007 Jan 16	This Famous Story of Spelling	Where do they go when they're ended
	2007 Apr 13	Pythagoras or Pinter	Tangents beckon from afar - with mystic hints of tangerine:
	2004 Jul 5	Who Knows More Than Folk?	To yield without coercion
	2004 Oct 5	Credible Safe Kill Factor	Virus warfare for our times
	2004 Nov 16	Your Stupid Obsession With Unworldly People-Carriers	She whitewashed me into the corner
	2005 Feb 23	If Perchance	Bold insurgence swept from coast to coast
	2005 Apr 14	We Wish You Joy Of Haggis	Before I close this inquest
	2005 Jul 29	Our Technocrats Under Duress	Strontium nitrate
	2006 May 31	The Legend Of The Sphere	I'll tell you the tale of a boy from the East
	2006 Sep 8	The Blanched Almonds of Hoboken	The pool beneath the breakfast hall

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An Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse1996–2007

Poem: The Red Poem

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An Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse
1996–2007