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In the beginning
God created the heavens. Earth?
The hardest bit last.
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In the beginning
Was the wordle, but wordle
Couldn’t be the word.
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A short poem a day
Keeps the temptation to write
Longer poems at bay.
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No use listening
To roses. If they whisper,
No one’s ear knows it.
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The Angles,
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A haiku is ars
Brevis that aspires, like us,
To vita longa.
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You might not like this
But you cannot much dislike
Such short duration.
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So far, Century
21’s been anything
But exemplary.
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Greenwashing’s a way
To cloak catastrophe with
A clean conference.
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Will lyric poets still
Be writing lyric poetry
At the apocalypse?
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No need to be koi.
Carpe diem, no matter
What your element
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Mini-minor good,
Better than any make of
Maxi-major bad.
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Only one way in,
One out. Amazinoutly
Labyroutinthine.
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A traffic cone sits
On the head of the hero.
Glasgow smiles better.
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Dropped capitals: fine
In monastic manuscripts,
Less so in short rhymes.
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Coventry’s three spires
Were seen from four sides, but now
Three fourths have expired.
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Rather depressing
Can be rather uplifting,
If you’re not depressed.
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(19th April)
It’s Gini’s birthday
Today. Time to celebrate
A genuine ginius.
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Now is the time for
All good men to step aside
For better women.
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Than war on weeds:
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They say the word Love
Is overused. Whereas love,
My love, is under
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Double you double
You double you dot. World-wide.
Do make it worthwhile.
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Did it all happen
By happenstance? Half the world
Run by psychopaths.
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Porridge is poetry
With whiskey butter. The proof
Is in the porridge.
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Here’s a little dream
Where you’re dreaming of a dream
You dreamed that you dreamt.
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It’s not just walking
The walk, it’s talking poet talk
On the poetry walk.
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At New Street Station,
Last night, the ghost passed me by
Of the late last train.
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If you’re nice, the train
At Platform 5 will take you
Straight to Paradise.
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In the human race
Don’t run too fast. Jesus said
The first will be last.
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Trains and boats and planes,
Cars, bikes, buses and trams, and
Feet and legs to boot.
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Wait for the green man
And be patient with his twin.
Better red than dead.
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See Naples and die
Or see Little Eccleston-
With-Larbreck and live.
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If your choice were this –
Earthly or heavenly bliss – best
To sample each first.
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We’re living to die,
Which explains why we mostly
Spend life dying to live.
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What’s not rocket science
But is now the new normal?
No brainer! Cliché.
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Escherlators are
Escalators that only
Seemingly escalate.
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Thence orange,
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Red postbox, blue sky.
Push the envelope inside, but
Think outside the box.
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Mondrian disliked green,
But whether that was mutual
Remains to be seen.
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The Christian Alt-Right
Is the religion that’s right
For oxymorons.
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If you must be mis
Ogynist, you so must miss
Not having been born.
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Alas, Alaska!
Que será, à la Sarah,
Is baked Alaska.
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Seventy-six and
Never been in a mosh pit.
Should I regret it?
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Brexit meant Brexit
But, for Boris, I resign
Really meant Remain.
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David, Theresa,
Boris, Liz, Sunak. Alack!
Years we won’t get back.
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Will legislators
Who advocate a little state
Auto-evaporate?
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If you must harp on,
Harp on as an art, e.g.
Harp on on a harp.
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