Grimbeau

Scroodles

Category: Poetry

Phlogiston

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Sun inside, sun outside, hens free.

It’s quarter to three: to my right is a hyacinth blue hyacinth,

elsewhere a dove coos.

Why no workies?

Smirkies, shirkies, quirkies…

Focal plane down the drain.

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

 

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Woke on the water, choir in the sky.

Lost habit, out of the swing.

Naked apeshit visit.

Longers.

 

 

Two two two will not do: simply nots.

Time not spent at it.

 

 

 

Pomes and yarns roam and darn days, nights, hours and showers: eats, drinks, & sleeps. That’s the trick, Mick.

 

Here’s a right one.

Duck!

Crystal was shattered. Ratty Vanfrau was at the ablates again. Queer going altogether. Formegandros was a right old wrench to leave. Never spurn a taverna. Still tempers fugit…

            `His head’s gone.` observed the rookie.

            ‘Tis the time of year for it.’ said the chainsaw massacre cast.

            ‘Not that bloody rubbish again.’ Cried the crowd, aloud.

            Castlemaine was a horny bitch for King & Gentry alike. Insatiable in cerise tights, pacing the Home Office, looking frantic for a booster.

            ‘She cooked your goose, Sir.’ Said the minion, Vince, up for a good twatting.

            ‘As waltzers go sir, she’s a dodgem.’ Castlemaine stomped.

 

 

Publish and be Damned

Visog

The funny papers

Weep today

Fanatic manhunt

Underway.

Rue Morgue Avenue

old-man

 

Bullets rain,

winds prance,

 

Cold suns rise,

firebirds dance.

 

Sirens wail,

beggars chant:

 

Honi soi qui mal y pense.

Message to Roxanna

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Up

for apparent reason

undisclosed.

Harangued

power firm larcenists

with deft wit.

Bathed in bags of lavender oats.

Too much, too much

insouciance.

Satraps gather

at the Gate of Gosh

grovelling for a living

Three Wise Guys

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Epiphany mistook for Advent!

This tells a tale or ten…

Lost is Yulespace, got mashed, and crashed to earth.

Splat!

The last day of Xmas.

 

Today the alchemists bearing the yearly cold, lack of sense and mirth

pitch up, begging favours, selling usury. Usual cobblers;

Wealth, divinity, and death – too late lads, I will say,

Got that on Black Friday mugging happy shoppers

(bagged a drone charger and a ten foot serene flatscreen)

 

No, today its back to bollocks with a bang

Like all good things,

so must bad things

End.

Bring it on, Xenophon!

Metempsychosis

Eve

The temptation to waffle about memories is maple syrup,

something about marked cards, that sort of gooey stuff.

& The very thought of getting into that is just plain

toxic.

Not that I am denying it,

you understand

I just don’t want

to go through all of that.

here and now is where it’s never at.

So, here it is.

Plaintive baroque trumpet sighs

Fanfare, mazurka, and microwave tympani.

Brief running tap crescendo. Mug clunk, bottle top slide.

Faraway, out of sight, a libation is incubating.

The soft clock needs a pacemaker.

Something black is scraped.

A dog crunches twiglets.

 

the  spray distorted blowing of a nose.

A strong clunk of mug.

An awakening.

Something ominous issues from the brass section.

The clock temporarily revives.

An unclear, disembodied voice rings

& reads out an address and claims

that now we have Tchaikovsky for company…

Coughs from above.

An ailing whaling gull?

Creation elation eschews

a humming loo,

Five short bursts enough

precision bombing.

Second wave,

chalk comes up.

The ball was in, man!

let there be…


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light at eight today

just up after tunnelling

a pleasant surprise

waiting there when I emerged

covered in gold dust

Retail

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Dreamt of Old Gem and his ladies

(one dead, one crazy, one mad)

What an ugly mess!

All love is

unfinished

business

Unlike shopping

a complete, unique transaction

Dudlines

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Dobedobedo…monster of deception,

keeper of the tricks, yield to my oeuvre.

 

Eggs and interruption beckon,

Douched ruched taffeta kneepads;

 

the end is listless, granite dust dry sponges,

hard as cold toast, brieze block lites whey

 

like cranberries in wensleydale – yuk!

Auto-dramaturgy allergy attack.

 

DNP (for it is):

Quickly! The screeds are coming for dinner!

Tickling

mostile

 

Sati’s factory plinks

sparse pink notes

primrosing purple pathos

like chemise driftwoods.