Grimbeau

Scroodles

Category: Poetry

Hear. Me. Out.

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Here’s how in  

the hear

& now

brown cow

& gate

left open field

as far as

The

Ice Can

Sea.

 

 

 

Jaw Jut

 

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Look at that:

a dogged dog

who don’t play it doggo,

sit when spat at,

beg for his dinner,

or die for a queen…

 

whose bite is worse

than their bark,

you swallow,

gruffly ruminating

over a lamb’s leg…

 

waiting for a pig’s ear,

rueful of the duck’s arse,

sizing up the parson’s nose,

exercising horse sense

with the stubborn donkey…

 

 

 

Goldilocks

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Big foot mantrapped,

Sasquatch chewing,

blood milk lakes,

hairy sunrise.

Three bears dream

palatable porridge.

Goldilocks sneaks in…

You

know the rest.

Big Foot in Mouth

 

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Act your age

Not your

Shoe size

What! I said

Two thousand

Five hundred

Millimetres

A Crock in the Park

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Overseas posting

not good enough,

don’t try harder!

It’ll shine when it shines.

 

Good plop and poem

about New York

by Bugsy Seagull –

something about rap,

 

Drive-by shooting music.

Got the croc &

ref to Prufrock.

Felt great weight

fall from me.

 

Refreshed by

Mountain Fontain

Compulsorally hosed,

Crimped, and pinked.

 

Brunch in Zimbabwe

With old boys

Sporting ties

Old school lies.

 

 

Bystanders

Damaged goods lie on a kitchen table in a house in Donetsk, Ukraine

Attempts to engage

& inspire provide

Mere, cheap free

fatuous masonry

to bolster up

& elaborate her

Forty fictions;

 

So, off he traipsed,

hill sheep sullen

to wattle

& daub the beehive

against the elements;

 

Brittle bricks

& poor mortar

for fear’s shiftless,

feckless gaol:

Self.

 

I give up &

concern myselves

otherwise.

In confluence,

separation lies.

 

Absolution

 

Shitting

your boxers

first thing

throws One

right off

One’s stride

I see you

angry and puny:

Cursefully,

tearfully,

damning your lot,

as you scoop it

sensibly

like a grown-up

from the kitchen sink

and fetch it with aplomb

to the awkward

jakes

for final

Absolution

 

 

Rasher Baps

Piet

 

droll nodes

brood

rude

colours:

pastel dragons

come from

melted crayon

puddles

sizzling bacon

takes the air,

makes it purr

like a pillow

we swallow

eating

our words

like gruel

Restful Laters

firefold

 

Stiffening breeze, yew spangle,

Forsythia: magic citrus mirror

Makes sharp shrift

misty sun smiles

like an aged, kind,

two-faced familiar,

clearly warming to its task, aware:

Not long before this hemisphere

is done with for another year.

Clacton Calling

 

 

Sur le Plage, de l’Or

 

Under

the beach

Hidden

Gold

Norman's Bay Starfish

 

 

O’er them  dunes,

Cap’n Mudd!’

 

Says Mrs Hands.

 

…just go left at the war mines,

 right at the shipwreck,

and,

Bob’s yer Uncle

It’s just there

opposite Aldi.’

Put on, or should it be, donned

John’s bonce on the hob.

Brain versus brawn

is a no-brainer.

 

Meanwhile…

after a lean while

Herod buys bonking time,

hides it in his Wish Urn

 

The sheer, brazen

Barbaric

Sauce of the fellow!

 

‘Chopsy prophet.

Salome’s mum

was a right one

too…’

 

 

Folkestone Ferry

grounded

On Golden Beach.

Lemmings swarm

 

Ferreting about.

Dredgers look on.

Dormant

In easy, idle, calm.

 

 

Just waiting

for the

Ebb to Flow

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