The Spoonbill Generator Archive
An Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse
1996–2007
*** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines
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The Spoonbill Generator ArchiveAn Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse
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Poems by Year: 1996 -
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2007 *** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines | |
Poem: Colquhoun | |||
Title | First line | ||
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| 1997 Mar 15 | The Mushroom Antipope | His terror of fruit was a virtue | |
| 1997 May 4 | When Spoons Collide | The outskirts of Odessa | |
| 1997 May 29 | Devout Epic On A Tiresome Champion | How ponderous, how ponderous | |
| 1997 Jun 28 | Cry the Narcotic Laundry | I dreamed a quaint equation | |
| 1997 Aug 29 | Your Gerbils, My Hotelier | Before I sensed this vacuum | |
| 1997 Sep 15 | One moonbeam, undercooked | Three drops of cactus-water | |
| 1997 Sep 20 | Echoes Echoes, Without | By 'Custody' I do not mean | |
| *** | 1997 Nov 25 | Alice's Peculiar Revenge | Alice frowned; all around, leaves were falling to the ground |
| 1997 Dec 12 | But Actually... | Although you're tall, and gifted | |
| 1997 Dec 14 | Promising A Macrocosmic Disaster | If Dusseldorf were Dusseldorf | |
| 1998 Jan 23 | For Tadpole Perkins | 'Don't carry the coal to the amethyst pool, | |
| 1998 Feb 24 | WHat Further Unsightly Turbulence Awaits Below? | Carmelites! Before we know | |
| 1998 Mar 17 | Nocturne by Insectlike Co-authors | Timely teal creeps | |
| *** | 1998 May 30 | Confusion Excuses This Apparently Plotless Fiasco | The night this narrative began |
| 1998 Jun 10 | One Daren't Expect More | The night we rode, the path we trod, we knew how it would end | |
| 1998 Sep 27 | Ode to the Laughter of my Pancreas | Who can fathom the rat's cunning ways? | |
| *** | 1998 Nov 21 | Stale Toffees Know Nothing | His feet are larger than the sea |
| 1998 Dec 13 | One More Landscape | To renovate the galaxy | |
| 1999 Jan 11 | Tales for the Dogmatical Nursemaid | The unicorn, though custom deems it myth, | |
| 1999 Jan 22 | These Fiscal Cousins | Quarters | |
| 1999 Apr 5 | The Leather Ambulance Crumbles | By dint of subtle mime | |
| 1999 Dec 31 | Merlin's Legendary Lost Oaths | My daughter! My daughter! the old wizard cried | |
| 2000 Jan 14 | New, Tidier Pixies | The stately tread of centuries has just assailed our ears | |
| *** | 2000 Feb 13 | The Minotaur's Preserved Tears | Frugal the frog |
| *** | 2000 Mar 31 | Uncle Helium Meets His Maker | He was born at a quarter to three |
| 2000 May 1 | Abhorrent Paradises | A silver bird, set in a leaden sky | |
| 2000 May 15 | Essay - Let's Not | It's a terrible start to a poem | |
| 2000 Oct 15 | Naturally We're Coughing | Who comes to answer Pity's call? | |
| *** | 2001 Jan 7 | Fashionable, The Unseemly Lexicographer | There is, I've heard, an organist, who plays at half past three |
| 2001 Feb 22 | Wood Knot Rictus | Revival of my former fame | |
| 2001 Nov 5 | Balsamic Bus | From Russell Square to Holborn | |
| 2001 Dec 12 | Forgotten Riposte V | Thematic spoonful, years of corn | |
| 2002 Feb 17 | National Gnu Stun Atrophy | It was on just a night such as this | |
| 2002 May 13 | Reflections Behind Closed Minds | The art of interactive verse | |
| *** | 2002 Jul 24 | The Mark of Uncertainty (Improbable Thumbprint) | If you can hold a tune, when all around |
| 2002 Aug 23 | Fortissimo Epilogue | Whenne that Julye, with its weather bloodie | |
| 2002 Nov 8 | Impressions of the National Arthritic Gallery | My fourteenth friend cannot be seen from here | |
| 2003 Aug 4 | My Other Lifetime was a Thing Foregone | A mothball larger than the sun | |
| 2003 Aug 29 | The Burlington Commuter Blues | The wrong kind of sun, the wrong kind of snow | |
| 2003 Sep 1 | Chipping Proverbs | A French kiss from the Blarney Stone | |
| *** | 2003 Oct 20 | Dignity for Sixty Six Possible Consonants | 'Twas on the 8th of August that the taxman came to call |
| 2003 Nov 16 | Captain Of My Land | Happy ever after? Well, at least until that day | |
| *** | 2003 Nov 27 | Misplaced Devotion | Follow the players all over the globe |
| 2003 Dec 29 | First Glimpse Of Summer This Autumn | A 21st Century Christmas Carol | |
| 2004 Jan 28 | Excess Ease Coming | Who welds a poem huger than the grave? | |
| 2004 Feb 10 | Even Duplication Factors | Say hello to Chutney Spears | |
| 2004 Feb 24 | Whence Cometh Our Whelp With Its Peculiar Outlook? | It's not just the hole in the dyke | |
| 2004 Mar 23 | Refusenik Attitudes Long Considered Passé | Is that your usual tone of voice? | |
| *** | 2004 May 21 | Seven Seasons In Red | Was it for this that I sold all my children? |
| 2004 May 26 | Home Time Before Cock-crow | Why do I sit here, why do I strive | |
| *** | 2004 Jun 1 | Wordsworth's Intention | On viewing Chloe's coccyx |
| 2004 Jun 25 | The Kiss Cabin | This mouth of salt | |
| 2004 Jul 21 | Taller Despite Appearances | The short-cuts that Yevgeny likes | |
| 2004 Aug 11 | Distant Fashion | The tram that passed the Opera | |
| 2004 Aug 27 | Welcome To The Never-ending School | Comrade railcar | |
| 2004 Dec 9 | The Hurricane That Tore Our Beloved Condominium From Its Very Foundation | Behind the bandstand, when we dared | |
| *** | 2005 Jan 17 | Grey From Top To Towpath | Upon the next-to-shortest day |
| 2005 Aug 8 | The Stranger Butler | The end is the beginning, subtly changed | |
| 2005 Nov 15 | To Any Passing Critic | In opting for a blacker grey | |
| 2005 Nov 22 | What A Nefarious Newcomer Might Not Instantly Perceive As Worthwhile Is Often Valueless | Drinking round the clock | |
| 2006 Jan 25 | At Equal Intervals | The other day (or was it night?) | |
| 2006 Apr 4 | Powers That Remain Potent | A night of perfect chaos | |
| 2006 May 11 | Fester, Farewell | Fester, farewell | |
| 2006 Jun 15 | How Many Such Openings Have We Squandered? | Astride a red-hot anvil | |
| 2007 Jan 15 | A Futile Attempt on Parnassus | I meant it as an insult | |
| 2007 Apr 13 | Snow Without Distinction | From the swirling coffee-grounds | |