The Spoonbill Generator ArchiveA Golden Treasury of Collaborative Verse, 1996–2007 | |
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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 2005 | |||
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January | |||
2005 Jan 4 | Cycling Behind The Traces | Coded in the final hour | |
2005 Jan 4 | Houndstooth Canal | It seemed as though I'd never been away | |
2005 Jan 6 | I Surface Behind The Lamps | A pelvis drowned in custard | |
2005 Jan 7 | Is Nothing Valueless | Once quite temperamental | |
2005 Jan 9 | Zeppo Lamenting | Emily and Sally, Kathy and Loureen, | |
2005 Jan 9 | Up In Canada Antlered Creatures Are Everywhere | Perhaps, your new line will go here. | |
*** | 2005 Jan 11 | Welcome To Darci | Delightful news! An heiress to the line |
2005 Jan 11 | The Crooner Under Cover | Way down upon the Swanee River | |
2005 Jan 15 | Stealth For Newfound Cheeses | Broad pretensions, on the board-walk, | |
2005 Jan 15 | Backstabbing So-called Chums | I'll never again, see my ex-pal Len | |
2005 Jan 16 | Boredom City | Sherbert, not Opopanax | |
2005 Jan 16 | Deatiny Shaped By Simpletons | State of action: quite inert | |
2005 Jan 16 | Embonpoint Sandwiches | Globe and Jerusalem, we venerate | |
*** | 2005 Jan 17 | Grey From Top To Towpath | Upon the next-to-shortest day |
2005 Jan 18 | Home Schooling And No Bidets | Twice in one day! A rare delight | |
2005 Jan 18 | The Hegemony Which Everybody Scorns | One before the turning | |
2005 Jan 19 | Plausibly Roguish | A subpoena has been issued (you were asking for it) | |
2005 Jan 20 | Welsh Ditty | There is a tavern in the town | |
2005 Jan 23 | Lichens | Just dethrone me, once per week, | |
2005 Jan 24 | Trap For Attractive Babes | Could you possibly close your sweet mouth as you chew? | |
2005 Jan 24 | Keatsian Devices | Grecian urns do not inspire these words | |
2005 Jan 25 | Haddock Versus Anchovies: Discuss | My tension's most unmenstrual, | |
2005 Jan 26 | Enough Said: The Undershirts Finally Arrived | Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, DAMN! | |
2005 Jan 27 | The Christmas Milkmen | And here are the pictures | |
2005 Jan 27 | Horses Most Definitely | Spanish onions, in the dark, | |
2005 Jan 27 | Futile | Ripe bananas, ten a pound! Grapes to fit a feast! | |
2005 Jan 28 | Puberty Before Breakfast | Chastising priests becomes a sport | |
2005 Jan 28 | Where Angels Spoonfeed Tiny Tots | This small sachet - take a sniff! - | |
February | |||
2005 Feb 1 | Sixty-five Degrees | If you squeegee my windshield, I'll scour your pot | |
2005 Feb 2 | After Reality, Interregnum | She plugged it in, she switched it on | |
2005 Feb 3 | Systemic Gouda | Stale cheese croutons in my jar | |
2005 Feb 3 | Piglet In Weymouth | To catch the dreaded Heffalump | |
2005 Feb 4 | Over And Outhouse | Astride a blazing horse | |
2005 Feb 7 | Good-luck To Endless Sorrow | Leastways, said the meter man, You'll always have some fish | |
2005 Feb 8 | Drive-By Morality | So how ya doin', Mrs. Knapp? | |
2005 Feb 9 | Skin For Us Those Infidel Shareholders | An agéd man in green I saw | |
2005 Feb 9 | Perfect Pitchers | Monosyllables | |
2005 Feb 11 | Desperate Kippers | Just a tingling kind of pain | |
2005 Feb 15 | Among Beanbags | So tell us, how many times have you | |
2005 Feb 16 | The Frictionless Vol-au-vent | This is now | |
2005 Feb 16 | Ever Onward Through Muck | Before the gullet goes to ground | |
2005 Feb 16 | Nantucket Disappointment | There was a young man from Nantucket | |
2005 Feb 18 | Novelistic Leaflets | Russell Hoban, King of Thrace, | |
2005 Feb 21 | Still, Inkpots Leave Stains | Will you be f***ing p***ed if I use asterisks? | |
2005 Feb 22 | The Alphabet Artfully Reconstructed From Bedsprings | Awake! Before the porridge starts to burn! | |
2005 Feb 22 | Sigh No More, Ladies | The Dutch maintain that any eye | |
2005 Feb 23 | Gorgon Cookies | Just imagine thirteen cakes aglitter in the night: | |
2005 Feb 23 | If Perchance | Bold insurgence swept from coast to coast | |
2005 Feb 24 | Plans For Vacillation | I think I might go out today | |
2005 Feb 28 | Custard Pied Wagtail | Gurgling free | |
2005 Feb 28 | Dog-biscuit Dunking | I paid for all this road myself | |
March | |||
2005 Mar 7 | Flaring Hairclips | In latter days of green and blue | |
2005 Mar 10 | Wherever Tuesday Blues | Little Jack Horner sat in a corner | |
2005 Mar 17 | Poor Semblance Of Artistic Metaphors | Prodigiously attractive | |
2005 Mar 18 | I Would Rather Not Serve Rice | I might not swallow more than once | |
2005 Mar 18 | Eye-Flavored Scrutiny | Prodigiously attractive | |
2005 Mar 23 | Incoherence Everywhere Discovered Anew | The horror-shows of ancient Gaul | |
2005 Mar 26 | As Luck Would Habit | Strange transmissions - from the sun - | |
2005 Mar 28 | Bertrand Of Nimes In Anguish | Halitosis hit me as he cut my hair | |
2005 Mar 29 | Nothing More Redundant Than Thought | Stagnation, degradation | |
2005 Mar 30 | Fashion Misstated | There was an old man from Sioux Falls | |
2005 Mar 31 | Four Times Four Is Tonic | So ... how to subvert the Age of Consent? | |
2005 Mar 31 | Our Vectors Ineptly Computed | Chucked up, chucked out | |
2005 Mar 31 | Cultural Divides | I watched a ritual of the Baluchistanis; | |
April | |||
2005 Apr 12 | Over Blighty Dipping | Men who pause | |
2005 Apr 12 | Send Major Wordsworth | Said I to Gus Grissom | |
2005 Apr 14 | We Wish You Joy Of Haggis | Before I close this inquest | |
2005 Apr 19 | Enough To Warrant Onions | In praise of whelks, I roam the moors: | |
2005 Apr 20 | Future Species Will Not Tolerate Hotels | If the Sun was to die today | |
2005 Apr 21 | Vestments In Velvet Of Midnight | Only a quarter | |
2005 Apr 21 | Despatched Again | I have a little creature | |
2005 Apr 25 | While Letting Agencies Do Their Damnedest | We pick on them because we know | |
2005 Apr 26 | Our Welsh Brethren Confess | Rushing from the Laundromat® | |
2005 Apr 26 | Our Socratic Brethren Will One Morning Save The Welsh Unaided | Plato's grin did shame the sun | |
2005 Apr 28 | Before She Uttered | hiiiiiiiii | |
May | |||
2005 May 3 | Blimey, Guv | Dear, pour me out a single cup of tea, | |
2005 May 4 | Doughboy Graduates | Cookies and biscuits, crackers and buns | |
2005 May 17 | Tears Before Tonsils | Lethal injection, on the tide, | |
June | |||
2005 Jun 3 | When Talents Droop As Feathers | One day, I hope to play the concertina. | |
2005 Jun 13 | Saul Bellow Cloudringed By Nymphs | In his Jeans®, stood Jasper Johns | |
2005 Jun 29 | Always Downfallen | The mood, in Hitler's bunker | |
July | |||
2005 Jul 1 | Liturgically Challenged Papists Vainly Seeking Pomp | Her velvet trousers, on the bed | |
2005 Jul 4 | Enough Bagels Disavowed | In spite of all your after-shave | |
2005 Jul 5 | The Sanskrit Kirk Railings | Just a taste of sunshine | |
2005 Jul 6 | Lucy In Torment | Pastry-forks were just the thing - | |
2005 Jul 8 | Crop Circling Gear | To view this page as Scratch'n'Sniff | |
2005 Jul 11 | Highways, Byways, Afterthoughts | Kaleidoscopes in bronze and zinc | |
2005 Jul 12 | My Priapic Milestone | Coddled mushrooms, all a-simmer, | |
2005 Jul 12 | Starting Northwards, In No Uncertain Protocol | A Singer of Rats was elected | |
2005 Jul 18 | Heave Aside Our Plundering Pharoah | At seven Gs | |
2005 Jul 19 | High Teeth | Juicy plums for me to bite! | |
2005 Jul 20 | Remedial By Association | Sufferers of synarthrodiae | |
2005 Jul 22 | Another Bodleian Peroration Fails | If it hadn't been for the eighteenth green | |
2005 Jul 22 | Mated By Happenstance | A fledgling wasp once took the time | |
2005 Jul 22 | For The Draining-board That Survivors Clutch | Step this way, you man o' war, | |
2005 Jul 25 | Mine Shaft Mendicants, Their Oath | If I told you how I feel | |
2005 Jul 25 | Tartlets In Custardy | Blesséd fragrance, of the Nile, | |
2005 Jul 25 | His Trusty League | Never measured, never loved, | |
2005 Jul 27 | Bismuth Bill Again | Incursions 4, Evasions 5 | |
2005 Jul 29 | Our Technocrats Under Duress | Strontium nitrate | |
2005 Jul 30 | Duodenal Backwater | Behold a scone that I have baked! | |
2005 Jul 30 | Tantric Diagrams | The empty vest had seen some times | |
August | |||
2005 Aug 1 | Heathen Lent | Ingest this canapé of grime? | |
2005 Aug 8 | The Stranger Butler | The end is the beginning, subtly changed | |
2005 Aug 8 | Apparatus For Removing Apparatus | Algorithms for the blind | |
2005 Aug 8 | Farewell, My Lively Oystercatcher Nymphs | Heading off to sunny climes | |
2005 Aug 10 | Fields Of Everywhere | His secretary's teeth were sown | |
2005 Aug 12 | Nostrils, Each | Despite a severe anaesthetic | |
2005 Aug 12 | The Shark-infested Handbag | Betrayed by movements in the dark | |
2005 Aug 22 | Lasers In Latin | To grasp these prawns will take some skill | |
2005 Aug 23 | Why We Ought Not To Bellow Faintly Throughout Our Dinner | Betrayed by movements in the dark | |
2005 Aug 23 | Wittgenstein Therapy | Take parnsip from the heap | |
2005 Aug 23 | Help! Aunt Potter Stole My Neckerchief | Trust me with your pudding store | |
2005 Aug 31 | To Study All Known Colonies | Pleonasms get me down | |
September | |||
2005 Sep 1 | My Third Empire | In this haystack, L. P. Hartley | |
2005 Sep 1 | Detonating Error | A small explosion | |
2005 Sep 3 | Crustaceans In Error | To wait upon the late express | |
2005 Sep 4 | Ridicule Enough For Cherubim | Strong dominion, over whelks, | |
2005 Sep 4 | Leonine Mellinger Pronounces Herself Destitute | This Plasticene®'s Jurassic, don't you know? | |
2005 Sep 4 | Monetarists | In flowerdome five | |
2005 Sep 6 | Neolithic Muesli | Grizzled, in a state of tears, | |
2005 Sep 7 | Our Leather-Bound Archipelago Swept Clean | Returning to my spawning-grounds | |
2005 Sep 8 | Whistles | Russell Hoban, king of rhyme, | |
2005 Sep 8 | The Railway Couplet Detected | From the bottom of my foot | |
2005 Sep 9 | When Caesar Foamed | We danced, in nothing but a hat | |
2005 Sep 11 | In Past Emporia | One for sorrow, two for fish | |
2005 Sep 14 | Tossed From Hand To Elbow | Her incursions, from the North, | |
2005 Sep 18 | These Are My Diverse | The stickleback: how, in its prime | |
2005 Sep 18 | One Will Between Friends | In opting for a greyer black | |
2005 Sep 19 | Charity Enough For Now | Action is as action does | |
2005 Sep 20 | Subway Tools Again | Lucy Skeaping, queen of myst'ry, | |
2005 Sep 21 | Packed Without Any Discernible Entropy | The last was gone before its hour | |
2005 Sep 21 | Caramel Christmas | In this wise, the King of Thebes | |
2005 Sep 24 | Platonic Scooter Or Worse | Banish poets? To The Pole? | |
2005 Sep 27 | Any Extreme Prognostication Except | You - a loan - are the Most High! | |
2005 Sep 27 | Prematurely Concluded | Envoi | |
October | |||
2005 Oct 5 | Associations Lend Their Chevrons | Criticism - from the ranks - | |
2005 Oct 11 | Gabriel, So Rotund | It's a wonderful life, to be sure | |
2005 Oct 11 | Ghent Is Abandoned Now, So Gloucester Weeps | My salad days were mainly spent | |
2005 Oct 13 | The Final Acorn | From Sparta to Spain | |
2005 Oct 14 | No Carborundum | Moving twice | |
2005 Oct 15 | Airworthy Kitchens | Dross of ages past is ours | |
2005 Oct 16 | Unlikely Caretaker In Kansas | When Pinter won the Nobel Prize | |
2005 Oct 20 | Mermaids Sighing Affidavits | Harold Pinter, author of Betrayal, | |
2005 Oct 23 | Pending Further Guests | Does anybody come here any more? | |
2005 Oct 23 | The Tartan Cow Trap | There was a young man from Nantucket | |
2005 Oct 25 | Seldom So Frequently | Gone before its time | |
2005 Oct 25 | Half Baked Wholly | Stalk the streets of Serenissima | |
2005 Oct 30 | Yes, Seamstresses, Invisible Stockings For Marriage Vows | So much nicer now | |
2005 Oct 31 | Vongole Al Limone Con Funghi | Clams are not my favoured dish | |
November | |||
2005 Nov 7 | Here Is Owl | Glimpsed through barbed wire | |
2005 Nov 10 | Who Named The Cornucopian | Here comes Cross-Eyed Sam | |
2005 Nov 11 | iPods Crafted From Rusting Spanners Or Similar | You think of these as scones | |
2005 Nov 12 | Amsterdam Transfers | These canals are full of fish?! | |
2005 Nov 13 | Goodfellow Moses | A secret door | |
2005 Nov 13 | Cufflinks Fascinate Nobody Except Rasputin | Gone from here, by twenty leagues, | |
2005 Nov 14 | Rorschach Fondling | With sorghum, millet, rice and oats | |
2005 Nov 15 | To Any Passing Critic | In opting for a blacker grey | |
2005 Nov 16 | Guile In Any May | Awestruck in the horse-truck, | |
2005 Nov 16 | The Lost Macduff Reforms In Ely | His cranium, by some accounts | |
2005 Nov 17 | Ignoring The Peach And Nectarine | If ever I would write a dirge | |
2005 Nov 18 | Pleasure for Godmothers | Buckets of slime | |
2005 Nov 22 | What A Nefarious Newcomer Might Not Instantly Perceive As Worthwhile Is Often Valueless | Drinking round the clock | |
2005 Nov 23 | Fester's Last Words | It takes a man with real strength to deplore | |
2005 Nov 23 | The Interplanetary Concavity Is How Deep | Good Men, our good ship's run aground | |
2005 Nov 29 | Lament: Austere Nightly Beatings | Retribution, hard as stolen milk, | |
December | |||
2005 Dec 1 | When Everything Presupposes | I am the Centaur and the sword | |
2005 Dec 7 | Troubles Because Of Bosoms | Puissant were her thighs that night | |
2005 Dec 8 | Immaculate Threnodies by Augustan Bachelors | On Boscombe Down, where Keats was born | |
2005 Dec 8 | Piebald Cheques | 'The first day of the rest of your life', they sang, | |
2005 Dec 8 | No Thanks, Kenneth | Are you going to Scarborough Fair? | |
2005 Dec 12 | Aspire To Life | Big fish, tiny pond | |
2005 Dec 15 | Hosiery On Half-forgotten Nuns | Corset strung as tight as tight, | |
2005 Dec 23 | Abundance Throughout Pompeii | In these forests, aroundabout, |