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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 Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines — Poems by Colour | |||
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| Title | First line | ||
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| *** | 1996 Dec 16 | Hectoring tripe | Enough of your brutal evasions! |
| *** | 1996 Dec 26 | Misadventures Without Misconduct | The travails of my giroscope |
| *** | 1997 Apr 30 | Ovaltine Cannot Age My Kitten | Cracked, but half asleep |
| *** | 1997 Dec 28 | Swimming While Drowned | Who were the Bewlay Sisters |
| *** | 1997 Dec 9 | The Alchemist's Crusade | If all the world were turpentine |
| *** | 1997 Feb 13 | The Question | In front of a crowd of reliable hens |
| *** | 1997 Feb 19 | Invisible Sandwiches - The Tiresome Beginnings | She found the smoothest stone, |
| *** | 1997 Feb 21 | Dreaming of a Swamp and the Holy River | As we starve in our secret Alaskas |
| *** | 1997 Jan 19 | Eldred's glum, glum spleen | The dictionary was far from green |
| *** | 1997 Jan 24 | Not Enough Sodium | Transubstantiation |
| *** | 1997 May 22 | One Smug Portillo, Timely Forgotten | These low and oily charmers |
| *** | 1997 Nov 25 | Alice's Peculiar Revenge | Alice frowned; all around, leaves were falling to the ground |
| *** | 1997 Sep 26 | Who Causes Jetsam? | Gulls feed the sky |
| *** | 1998 Aug 7 | Theory Comes Later | One: a sponge, of medium girth |
| *** | 1998 Jan 4 | The Throat Effect | Gorgonzola partridge |
| *** | 1998 Jul 20 | At First Simply Guessing | There was a young lady fron Dar-es-Salaam |
| *** | 1998 Mar 20 | Whiskers of Anonymity | Keep your vigil - face the facts |
| *** | 1998 May 30 | Confusion Excuses This Apparently Plotless Fiasco | The night this narrative began |
| *** | 1998 Nov 21 | Stale Toffees Know Nothing | His feet are larger than the sea |
| *** | 1998 Oct 22 | Propose The Impossible | Jemima: take this catapult |
| *** | 1999 Aug 17 | Deathrow Welshmen Sometimes Tick | Has time stopped? |
| *** | 1999 Aug 4 | Quite | Why, oh why, oh why, oh why? |
| *** | 1999 Dec 1 | Stacy's Fading Cardigan | The autumn leaves |
| *** | 1999 Dec 24 | You'll be a Laughing-stock Tomorrow | At this festive, glowing season |
| *** | 1999 Feb 9 | The Lewd Mouths Squeal | Carnivores, despite the laws |
| *** | 1999 Jan 18 | When We Reconsider All Our Footsteps | My grandmother told me on one grand occasion |
| *** | 1999 Jan 21 | Only Transient Sheep | Hiatus and Hibiscus are the names of my two sheep |
| *** | 1999 Mar 20 | The Ballad of Archibald Sideways | The Ballad of Archibald Sideways |
| *** | 1999 Nov 1 | Over-baked blossom | Now listen, please. I've brought you here |
| *** | 1999 Oct 16 | The Knight who Rode a Goat to Barcelona | Before the porcupine descends |
| *** | 2000 Apr 10 | Round/Arabesque | Do not cry, my darling, do not cry |
| *** | 2000 Feb 13 | The Minotaur's Preserved Tears | Frugal the frog |
| *** | 2000 Feb 14 | Sonnet | If the prophets who foretell my life |
| *** | 2000 Feb 27 | Rash Wednesday On The Grim Reeperbahn | Give me a whirl on the trampoline dull |
| *** | 2000 Jan 18 | A Behavioural Thesis | You giants! You, who from this crag |
| *** | 2000 Jan 30 | Big Custard | Warm in nutritious mulch, we germinate, |
| *** | 2000 Jan 31 | Adam's Ballooning Error | Whatever happened to darling Denise? |
| *** | 2000 Mar 20 | Discredited in Birmingham | Your bland mosaics, weak and pale |
| *** | 2000 Mar 31 | Uncle Helium Meets His Maker | He was born at a quarter to three |
| *** | 2000 Oct 3 | World One Hundred | If a man shall lack a shoe |
| *** | 2001 Aug 12 | Noah often said that it was lucky to stick herrings to trees | The rain poured down; the waters rose, |
| *** | 2001 Jan 7 | Fashionable, The Unseemly Lexicographer | There is, I've heard, an organist, who plays at half past three |
| *** | 2001 Mar 22 | Father, Forgive Our Carpentry | The practice of law is a terminal bore |
| *** | 2001 Nov 21 | Who Will Seldom Live Unseen? | Invitation, contradiction, punctuation, wedded bliss |
| *** | 2002 Jul 24 | The Mark of Uncertainty (Improbable Thumbprint) | If you can hold a tune, when all around |
| *** | 2002 Nov 15 | Civic Pyjamas Akimbo | While editing the alphabet |
| *** | 2003 Jun 21 | Theory of Everything on Tap | Lucinda' big sister chowed down on plutonium |
| *** | 2003 Nov 14 | Recycling Genesis | In the beginning Bob created the woman and the beer |
| *** | 2003 Nov 27 | Misplaced Devotion | Follow the players all over the globe |
| *** | 2003 Oct 20 | Dignity for Sixty Six Possible Consonants | 'Twas on the 8th of August that the taxman came to call |
| *** | 2004 Jul 2 | Domestic Meltdown | The problem is easy to see |
| *** | 2004 Jun 1 | Wordsworth's Intention | On viewing Chloe's coccyx |
| *** | 2004 Mar 8 | A Mile Beyond The World May Be A Maiden | Congealing in a fusty box |
| *** | 2004 May 18 | Calling For A Funicular Tramway Service | While strutting through the quicksand |
| *** | 2004 May 21 | Seven Seasons In Red | Was it for this that I sold all my children? |
| *** | 2004 May 25 | Rubbish-tip Top | The moving pencil writes and, having writ, it breaks |
| *** | 2004 Sep 16 | Satanists With No Desire For Pontifical Stripes | I bought a thing on ebay |
| *** | 2005 Jan 11 | Welcome To Darci | Delightful news! An heiress to the line |
| *** | 2005 Jan 17 | Grey From Top To Towpath | Upon the next-to-shortest day |
| *** | 2006 Mar 9 | NB: In Memoriam | The blackest of shields by the light of the moon |
| *** | 2006 May 30 | Phoenix, Bored | Is no-one here to waken me? |