The Spoonbill Generator Archive
A Golden Treasury of Collaborative Verse, 1996–2007
*** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines — Poems by Colour
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The Spoonbill Generator ArchiveA Golden Treasury of Collaborative Verse, 1996–2007 |
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Poems by Year: 1996 -
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2007 *** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines — Poems by Colour | |
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Poems completed in 2001 | |||
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January | |||
| 2001 Jan 1 | No Cat's Trousers | Pelting down the motorway, with my wheels of fire, | |
| 2001 Jan 1 | Symphony Buttocks With Apricot Orchestra | Toast Christmas dog | |
| 2001 Jan 6 | Finnegan's Ascending Nostril | Alphabetic poetry often can | |
| 2001 Jan 7 | Fashionable, The Unseemly Lexicographer | There is, I've heard, an organist, who plays at half past three | |
| 2001 Jan 8 | Brothers in Canberra | The kangaroos are at the aquarium? | |
| 2001 Jan 9 | A Prawn Parading | An ant always admires actors | |
| 2001 Jan 9 | Iced Mohicans, Anyone? | Zoroaster sunnily bestows his | |
| 2001 Jan 9 | Going off the Boil | If love cannot foretell the past | |
| 2001 Jan 9 | Her Northampton Boudoir | Bengeo is just the place to start a bitter feud | |
| 2001 Jan 10 | Nasty, Nasty | The gremlins in my kitchen make | |
| 2001 Jan 11 | Sunday, We Confess | A monstrous sneeze assails the ears | |
| 2001 Jan 12 | The Enslaved | I just can't help thinking of you | |
| 2001 Jan 15 | Making Nuns | Sheila was my first love, and she was just a hake | |
| 2001 Jan 15 | Ode Scribbled Rudely by Lennon | A is for the alligators alcoholically inclined, | |
| 2001 Jan 17 | I, Diamond Jim | Thumb screws , finger nails | |
| 2001 Jan 20 | Offhand Emblem | If the captain's metaphysic | |
| 2001 Jan 21 | Shutters Fold Tightly Again | 6 x 6 - from wall to wall | |
| 2001 Jan 23 | A Vain Attempt in English to Accommodate Divers | The hour of innocence, of hopes and dreams | |
| 2001 Jan 24 | Unhappy Stampede | Now, here's a story | |
| 2001 Jan 24 | Future Dereliction Of Duty | Somewhere in the evening, at a screen not far from you | |
February | |||
| 2001 Feb 2 | The Truth Beyond Ginger | Whipping in ocean tides and winds of the Sicak peninsula | |
| 2001 Feb 3 | Birds - So? | Those onomatopoeic words | |
| 2001 Feb 8 | Recant Nothing, Martyrs | Full fathom five the aardvark lies | |
| 2001 Feb 8 | Geometry Crawls Nightwards | Their shop lay in a triangle | |
| 2001 Feb 16 | Palfreyman In Switzerland | Doubled up with laughter, trebled up with woe | |
| 2001 Feb 17 | Membrane One (Laughing Hoop) | If Joan of Arc wasn't a zombie | |
| 2001 Feb 19 | Firestorm Fingers | Have you heard the story of the Chattlewhump, my son? | |
| 2001 Feb 22 | Wood Knot Rictus | Revival of my former fame | |
| 2001 Feb 27 | Captain Scott's Implosion | At dawn we slew another pig | |
| 2001 Feb 28 | Arresting the Compositor | Into the cauldron of possibility | |
March | |||
| 2001 Mar 9 | Amusing-Esoteric | Necromancy doesn't work, my uncle used to say | |
| 2001 Mar 11 | Fleeing, The Sticky Eremite Scratches | Poetry and Poesy declined to fight a duel, | |
| *** | 2001 Mar 22 | Father, Forgive Our Carpentry | The practice of law is a terminal bore |
| 2001 Mar 25 | Conquer the Bandits of Love! | Remembrance is a form of rhubarb | |
April | |||
| 2001 Apr 13 | Hook Performance | In the deepest part of the pool | |
| 2001 Apr 18 | Time Itself | We'll try once more before the crash | |
| 2001 Apr 20 | Conception By Maidens (Anchovie's Verses) | How long will you be up there? | |
| 2001 Apr 24 | Billiards, or Might My Love Be Undying? | Bianca grabbed me by the throat, and said I was a little stoat: | |
| 2001 Apr 25 | Our Only Strawberry | Why me? | |
| 2001 Apr 29 | Lost Meanings of Turkestan | Show me a mirror and I'll | |
May | |||
| 2001 May 1 | Tumbling Kills. Water Falls. | Carrie was an acrobat who fell upon her head | |
| 2001 May 9 | Tadpoles of Doom | Remember me when I am dead, | |
| 2001 May 14 | Flange Matrix - Paradise Of The Stars | Bubbles float up grassy-treed slopes | |
| 2001 May 17 | Innocuously Or Venomously | I always caught the quarter-past; it never ran on time | |
| 2001 May 17 | PSSB | He is bald and bespectacled | |
| 2001 May 21 | False Tales of My Calumny | Bring me an egg-whisk, and sand-blast my shoes! | |
| 2001 May 23 | Palace Challenge to the Party | It's a noble bird, is your gannet | |
| 2001 May 24 | Stravinksy in Sidcup: Untimely Minuet | If saints are souls with greater spirit | |
| 2001 May 30 | Whenever Angels Return to Hampshire | Coming back from London Zoo | |
| 2001 May 30 | Unlikely Spectacles Watch On The Firm | 'Pine kernels, artichokes, tuna, beef and cheese' | |
June | |||
| 2001 Jun 3 | Sonnets Lately Despatched | When to the summons of a baker's wife | |
| 2001 Jun 6 | Dali's Uncle's Duckpond of Filth | In an old ball of string | |
| 2001 Jun 19 | Are You the Last Paradigm? | In France, there is a little town | |
| 2001 Jun 19 | Tennyson's Elbow Transplant | I glanced upon your book last night - | |
| 2001 Jun 20 | Pointless Noses | A pound of cheese is just the stuff | |
| 2001 Jun 27 | Vacant possession of Chichester Cathedral (Song Cycles) | You bled the life from out of his home! | |
| 2001 Jun 28 | I'm Washing Pyjamas for Lunatics | Drunken badgers and their TVs | |
| 2001 Jun 29 | Tooth Drill In Sandwich Town | When rank delusion soils the mind | |
July | |||
| 2001 Jul 18 | Arctic Charlie | When singing to potatoes, the cowboy always stutters; | |
| 2001 Jul 20 | Misspelt Youth Syndrome | A saucer of sour milk for my companion! | |
| 2001 Jul 27 | Surprise Ending | A lamb-chop once asked me | |
| 2001 Jul 27 | Impertinent Desires | The Scandinavian roll-mop | |
| 2001 Jul 29 | My Oceanic History | A waterfall, in which the whale | |
August | |||
| 2001 Aug 1 | McBoreal's Adventure | Hamish McBoreal? The spaniel from the Glens? | |
| 2001 Aug 7 | Mutable, Suitable, Inscrutable | Hidboult was a wanderer | |
| 2001 Aug 7 | Washed and Dried in Time | 'A ton of prunes, a pickled egg, two muskets and a globe?' | |
| 2001 Aug 9 | She Performed Badly | Young Margaret was a silly girl | |
| 2001 Aug 9 | Matrimony is Hegemony, not Patrimony | She's all to me, and little more | |
| 2001 Aug 9 | The Oyster Interval | In the palace of my mind, a lonely spirit walks. | |
| 2001 Aug 9 | Nostalgia for Breakfast - And Blue Sky | I wish I were in Ngunnawal again | |
| 2001 Aug 10 | Marinade Your Partner Daily | His passion was a restless sort | |
| 2001 Aug 10 | Seaside Hallucination (Felixstowe Docks) | The shores of sand stood up and waved | |
| *** | 2001 Aug 12 | Noah often said that it was lucky to stick herrings to trees | The rain poured down; the waters rose, |
| 2001 Aug 13 | Obsoletely and Ignominiously | When I was young, we had a cave | |
| 2001 Aug 13 | Biography | Helena was born in a pub | |
| 2001 Aug 16 | There goes another racing certainty | This door is alarmed | |
| 2001 Aug 17 | Very Figurative | Add your own line to the poem | |
| 2001 Aug 18 | Forget Neptune | Trumpets are green | |
| 2001 Aug 20 | Airlock, Warlock | The Ministry of Frost | |
| 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 Aug 31 | While Columbus Never Bothered | It's now been raining hereabouts for more than half a year | |
September | |||
| 2001 Sep 3 | Delirium's Retchings | The rapid history becomes a page unturned | |
| 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 5 | My Mendacious Honey | I lie to you always, as sugar to spice | |
| 2001 Sep 6 | A Railway Canal | I cycled to the station with fury on my mind | |
| 2001 Sep 6 | Browsing Police | When to the summons I brought my fist | |
| 2001 Sep 12 | Dense, Dense, Dense, Dense | Celebrate good times? | |
| 2001 Sep 13 | Occasionally I Have Fallen Ill | When I was living with an elk | |
| 2001 Sep 22 | Daydream | Particularly pleasing was the scent of new-cropped straw | |
| 2001 Sep 24 | Cartwright's Innocence Unleashed | Along the mute canal | |
| 2001 Sep 26 | A Pleonastic Admirer of Superfluous Nuns | The men in Berlin are terribly thin | |
| 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 | |
October | |||
| 2001 Oct 1 | Our Northern Weeds Notwithstanding | Outside the gates of Swindon | |
| 2001 Oct 2 | Misconduct With Whosoever Chooseth | Welcome to the conversation | |
| 2001 Oct 2 | Very Old Highlanders | Angels in the centrifuge | |
| 2001 Oct 3 | Hidden Are Our Own Inept Performances | Blended with the hint of curling smoke came release | |
| 2001 Oct 4 | Truculent Virtue | Here I am and here I'm staying! | |
| 2001 Oct 5 | The Warped Toboggan (Auden Medal Awarded Posthumouly) | In the burrows of the Nightmare | |
| 2001 Oct 5 | Culling Ear-Trumpets by the Ganges | When Nylon paves the way for silk | |
| 2001 Oct 5 | Who to Blame? | Would you like to be a Womble? | |
| 2001 Oct 7 | The Duplicitous Dumpling | 'Cusp' she spelt | |
| 2001 Oct 7 | Vindaloo (Abbreviated) | I sent my luv a cllphn txt | |
| 2001 Oct 8 | From Chocolate Time-Zones | Her eye is not my voice | |
| 2001 Oct 8 | Immer mit Einheit | When Apsley dreams of Arabella Spommit, | |
| 2001 Oct 9 | Hideous Indeed | Jarrow is my noble home | |
| 2001 Oct 10 | Saved By The Old Handbags Again | Architecture! Drifting slow | |
| 2001 Oct 12 | Conversely | Today, when none was ever born | |
| 2001 Oct 16 | Disused Mouse | Teal creeps | |
| 2001 Oct 23 | Calf-Length Flight-Bone Prospects | Gilded by an autumn sun | |
| 2001 Oct 31 | Bartók's Drawing-Room | In a dream, I bit off my boss's leg | |
November | |||
| 2001 Nov 1 | Television Penis Disenfranchisement | Born with magic pubic hair | |
| 2001 Nov 5 | Cutlery Tissues | Is it a bug or a feature? | |
| 2001 Nov 5 | Balsamic Bus | From Russell Square to Holborn | |
| 2001 Nov 7 | Kurosawa Crawled Heavenward | There's nothing to accomplish in the dust | |
| 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 12 | Slice My Sausage Thinly, Samantha | When I was young and fancy free | |
| 2001 Nov 13 | Lithuania Accepts Barclaycard Again! | The cabbage roared to see the mouse | |
| 2001 Nov 15 | Entropy Without Harlots | Interlinear is the best | |
| 2001 Nov 16 | Pancreatic Recreations | Her bashfulness, though not innate | |
| 2001 Nov 16 | Unknown in Civilised Combat | Forests crash about my ears | |
| 2001 Nov 17 | Lenten Orgy | A pint of gin to steel the nerves | |
| 2001 Nov 17 | Leave Meetings Behind | A slice of bread, varinshed with wax, | |
| 2001 Nov 20 | Lechery's Appraisal | I loved her hazel eyes so much | |
| 2001 Nov 20 | Frogmen Imminent | 'Tis time! 'Tis time! The deed is done | |
| *** | 2001 Nov 21 | Who Will Seldom Live Unseen? | Invitation, contradiction, punctuation, wedded bliss |
| 2001 Nov 22 | Afternoon Prayers, Being a Master-Class for Emissaries of Torpor | Let's be quick! Their backs are turned | |
| 2001 Nov 22 | Once Knighted, Twice Blighted, Thrice Sighted! | A wooden Gospel, baked as bone | |
| 2001 Nov 22 | Let's Have Time to Fondle | Being a tomato-knife | |
| 2001 Nov 23 | Areas Of Devoid | Chief among the mammals | |
December | |||
| 2001 Dec 5 | On Galvanizing Spartan Surfaces | The mouse crept closer to its goal | |
| 2001 Dec 6 | Hopping Around the Fringes | Up, the new down | |
| 2001 Dec 7 | Skywards in Epping's Impenetrable Parkland | 'I hear you have a speaker-phone' | |
| 2001 Dec 7 | In Abandoned Transit-Vans | Harold was a potter | |
| 2001 Dec 7 | North-South Pedestrian Crossings | These suicides, who strut the streets | |
| 2001 Dec 10 | Stolen Kissograms in Ketchup | Such is cockaleekie, | |
| 2001 Dec 10 | Twenty-Three Costermonger High-Road | Two-ring circus, one horse town | |
| 2001 Dec 10 | Inwardly, Yet Outwardly | This helicopter, whose neglect | |
| 2001 Dec 11 | Dreaming Our Favourite Cyclones | Wandering churchwardens, speaking in tongues | |
| 2001 Dec 11 | Unnecessary Tits | In Narnia, the earthworms say, | |
| 2001 Dec 12 | Forgotten Riposte V | Thematic spoonful, years of corn | |
| 2001 Dec 12 | Stanley Knife, Solid Flesh | Alone | |
| 2001 Dec 12 | Behold Our Anglican Remainders | Chief among the mammals | |
| 2001 Dec 13 | She boils | In its own bottle | |
| 2001 Dec 13 | When hamsters stammer | Enough of all this sniping, at the wizards great! | |
| 2001 Dec 14 | Other Presentiments of Scoutmasters from Bothnia | Remembering his empty purse | |
| 2001 Dec 17 | Horse-Box Politics | The Devil's in the detail | |
| 2001 Dec 18 | Lesbians of Yesteryear | The Crossbill, famed in Nordic lore | |
| 2001 Dec 18 | Cap in Handsworth | The Crossbow, famed in Chinese tales | |
| 2001 Dec 19 | Brute Pesto Lollipop (Intolerance) | The gate is torn asunder there | |
| 2001 Dec 21 | Orphans Drinking Deftly | A glass of claret twice per day | |
| 2001 Dec 23 | Behind Bermondsey Bridge | Butterfingers Battersea | |
| 2001 Dec 23 | Noontide Passion | The drips from his ten-gallon hat | |
| 2001 Dec 30 | Attempts To Separate Meniscus from Surface | Our lady of Sligo | |
| 2001 Dec 30 | Stapling Matilda (Augustinian Ballade) | Poet slain with paper knife | |