Grimbeau

Scroodles

Tag: Flash Verse

Dotty

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Do you, like I, miss Phyllis Diller

And all the other

little Dillers.

 

Arthur & Henry

To name

But

Two

&

Their father

Windy

Of course

 

No, Diller, dear – Diller!

I’m sorry to be the one to tell you

Dear, but she’s passed.

Homespun Truths

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you can’t crack

an omelet

without

breaking eggs.

&

you can’t pin

a femur

without

broken legs

Wystopia

allihies

 

Mauden – Nite Male Rubba Dub.

Heads up, there – A Riviera!

No Pushy-Pushing Now.

 

Duck the Punches! No pulling mind.

Here comes delight.

Da-da-da-dumdum.

 

Sing a Song of Songs sung Blue.

From Synapse to Prolapse:

A Curt History of Rapture.

 

Psychosyllables care of Dr. Egg;

tosh-tish-tosh;

plinketyppyplonk.

 

Bad reviews, bad previews –

Bumful of bad bananas for the drop.

Plop.

 

Hanging is ungood for the hangee.

Flash-flesh-flush.

Press & Whoosh: all dunned.

 

Mr. Turd says,

‘Now wish your wands!’

Now.

 

Go think yourself as water,

as liquid water under ice,

uninstilled.

 

Like this: churning, filling, spilling, welling,

willing, milling. Flossing.

Morris Flossing.

 

Big chews and tobacco spats.

A la mode:  Discommode.

The  Carps Barp.

 

Skinflicks

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Whither the day, whither the morrow

Head full of pain, heart full of hollow

 

History stopped this morning at Ten

The Pinkos have got me corralled in the Pen

 

Biding my time, postponing the Craic

Till hell freezes over and heaven smells black

Quirkies

b8ada-pagliacci

 

Apollinaire wore underwear

de la Mare wore trunks

Ogden Nash liked ganache

Ezra Pound fed Monks

As it Happens

Dejeune Dada

 

Wild notes:

A bit of a whopper!

 

Had to get these down before I got stuck

cheroooted to the table.

Thanks to Danny Baker.

 

Warmed my butt and sacrum

with the oat and lavender bags

flicked through the morning stations for

distraction,

inspiration,

information –

in short, company.

Other voices.

 

Came across the Danny Baker Show,

a show I like and always forget to listen to

I am so bogged down in my listening ways.

 

The item was about Greenland’s timezone-less centre;

how they called it Greenland because Vikings

wanted to deter invaders from their cherished Iceland;

another item mentioned ‘thundersnow’

and I was away. Up for it, writing came first

and I made some jots:

 

These are they.

 

Saturday mornings Punk Odyssey

Drongo pomes dialogue.

 

The Vanmitzvah;

 

little feral red van

becomes

big red van/bus does

not stop at my gate.

 

Passed by a boy: came back a man.

Returned, emerged.

Apple in a football ground.

Thundersnow on a lowlight

 

 

 

 

 

A Harrowing Tale

 

amaryllis

 

Shirt Story:

 

Lifted.

Collared,

cuffed,

ironed:

well and truly

 

Tucked.

Zephyr

Xeno Sneeze

 

 

Juvenal

chagall-juggler

 

Weasel words spill out the chine

Mickey-taking sophists whisper

Sour nothings in the ear.

When water walks and sunshine showers

Blossom on sad earth

The chastised winter will concede

Ground to spring hastening

Blue dismembered times of mirth

Pishogue

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Cyril Sloth ate all

through the tempest

spanking the panes,

whipping the shrubs,

wiping the eyes of

Sussex and Cypress