The Spoonbill Generator Archive
A Golden Treasury of Collaborative Verse, 1996–2007
*** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines — Poems by Colour
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The Spoonbill Generator ArchiveA Golden Treasury of Collaborative Verse, 1996–2007 |
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Poems by Year: 1996 -
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2007 *** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines — Poems by Colour | |
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Poems completed in 1997 | |||
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January | |||
| 1997 Jan 3 | Chutney, the Ragtime Crab | I sighed for the feel of formica | |
| 1997 Jan 3 | Hoisting Eyeball Three | We were always in her debt | |
| 1997 Jan 4 | My Favorite Plunderings | 'Twas a frothy foam upon the wake | |
| 1997 Jan 12 | My Ingot Balloon | Translations of ancient words, | |
| 1997 Jan 12 | Tomorrow Hardly Trying | Above the burning snow | |
| 1997 Jan 18 | Arizona's Coptic Rime | Your fossil terrorised our clan | |
| *** | 1997 Jan 19 | Eldred's glum, glum spleen | The dictionary was far from green |
| 1997 Jan 22 | Seemly Onions | A beast with two backs | |
| 1997 Jan 24 | The Uneasiness Of Motives | They also serve who wait there to return | |
| *** | 1997 Jan 24 | Not Enough Sodium | Transubstantiation |
| 1997 Jan 26 | Whipped Blood Pudding Regrets | I never met a sailor who could sing | |
| 1997 Jan 30 | Although My Testament Lies Steaming | The price of penance is the soul, | |
| 1997 Jan 31 | Diagnostic Encomium | Oh! How I hate his leaking bladder! | |
February | |||
| 1997 Feb 2 | Hanging (Tidal) | Key of diamonds, tempest | |
| 1997 Feb 6 | Aphorisms for Unseen Swine | A kiss and a cuddle | |
| 1997 Feb 8 | The Cherry Challenge | Woodworm! Spare that tray | |
| 1997 Feb 12 | Almost After Forgotten | Sleepless wretched pacing, red-rivered eyes - glazed, gazing | |
| *** | 1997 Feb 13 | The Question | In front of a crowd of reliable hens |
| 1997 Feb 16 | Modish Qualms | I name this dead wasp 'Halitosis' | |
| 1997 Feb 17 | Artless | Art serves to remind us all, | |
| *** | 1997 Feb 19 | Invisible Sandwiches - The Tiresome Beginnings | She found the smoothest stone, |
| *** | 1997 Feb 21 | Dreaming of a Swamp and the Holy River | As we starve in our secret Alaskas |
| 1997 Feb 23 | False Memories of a Papal Failure | I blench to acknowledge my failure | |
| 1997 Feb 24 | Insensible Blandishments | Ask anyone about my woes, | |
| 1997 Feb 28 | More Paraffin for my PerpetualApprentice | The sun and moon kiss in the light of day | |
March | |||
| 1997 Mar 2 | Territorial Seas Revisited | No, Man IS an island | |
| 1997 Mar 2 | Swooping Ono Delight | This is an ode to all things past, | |
| 1997 Mar 5 | Maya's Misty Watercolor Blues | As Maya turned the page | |
| 1997 Mar 10 | Your Strict Horses Inhibit My Double Repetition | It was something to do with marmalade | |
| 1997 Mar 10 | Perpetual Nestled Teacups | It's not my cup of tea | |
| 1997 Mar 10 | Proposition (The Metaphysical Routine) | The end of the day is not the start of the night | |
| 1997 Mar 11 | Saint Nincompoop's Aplomb | I remember, I remember when verses used to scan | |
| 1997 Mar 13 | A Token for Parting | The filing cabinet, the filing cabinet | |
| 1997 Mar 15 | The Mushroom Antipope | His terror of fruit was a virtue | |
| 1997 Mar 18 | Albert Questions The Benighted Cauliflower | What tremor racks my boneless foot? | |
| 1997 Mar 22 | Orderly Insects Are Forecast | Small birds | |
| 1997 Mar 23 | Lemur Song Unsung | From leprechaun to Lancer | |
| 1997 Mar 23 | Upon Losing Worlds Of Azure | A summer's day, there comes an errant knight | |
| 1997 Mar 24 | Obelisk: Confusion | That karaoke chaos | |
| 1997 Mar 25 | My Gallic Endorsements | 'I wonder', mused the conqueror, 'why lemons seldom sing' | |
| 1997 Mar 30 | Lifeless Sheds | We were down to obsolete zero | |
April | |||
| 1997 Apr 6 | Regarding Mr Slick | Chiropracters, anarchists, and sheep | |
| 1997 Apr 10 | 23 Babies In Maritime Tryst | Two doggerels, whelped in one litter | |
| 1997 Apr 15 | Bathroom Psychodrama | Pale in her Siamese twin-set | |
| 1997 Apr 15 | Horse-Face Shrike In Lonely Dialogue | By leaving no margin for error | |
| 1997 Apr 17 | Toxic Fishpudding Blues | Blue notes pour from the sax in the corner | |
| 1997 Apr 26 | It Isn't Often Oatmeal | In his book, 'The Uranium Fanfare', | |
| 1997 Apr 26 | Apocope-0Reticule | In my outhouse, far from Tunis | |
| 1997 Apr 26 | Trans-Atlantic Plagiarism, And The Combustible Alibi | Two doggerels, whelped in one litter | |
| 1997 Apr 26 | Harry In The Blue Toast-Rack | Hail! Hale-Bopp and roll upon your starry roundelay | |
| 1997 Apr 29 | Tapioca Mouthwash | Outrage at the orthodox | |
| *** | 1997 Apr 30 | Ovaltine Cannot Age My Kitten | Cracked, but half asleep |
May | |||
| 1997 May 4 | When Spoons Collide | The outskirts of Odessa | |
| 1997 May 12 | The Implacable Syphon | The shadow cabinet-maker | |
| 1997 May 18 | A Snail Keeps Shop | A Case of Riotous Block | |
| 1997 May 21 | Unrealistic Coconuts | Merry munchkins mangle macaroons on Mondays | |
| *** | 1997 May 22 | One Smug Portillo, Timely Forgotten | These low and oily charmers |
| 1997 May 28 | The Eagle Fallen | Octopus, the raven-haired | |
| 1997 May 29 | Devout Epic On A Tiresome Champion | How ponderous, how ponderous | |
| 1997 May 31 | How Met By Legion | You call yourself a Yeti | |
June | |||
| 1997 Jun 7 | Saffron, Saffron | I've seen the skull beneath the scone | |
| 1997 Jun 7 | Fifteen Oblique Whiskers | A table of kinship for all the world's cats | |
| 1997 Jun 9 | Carbon Pump City | The never-ending cycle of the wars 'twixt good and ill | |
| 1997 Jun 14 | South Margin Closed, Always | Every thing hath a beginning | |
| 1997 Jun 17 | Hiding Like A Hun (Portia's Lament) | Here comes the knight, mail clad, through the border | |
| 1997 Jun 28 | Mudwoman, repent! | Life for a girl is a sensual map | |
| 1997 Jun 28 | Why Force Can Rescue Folly | Feeling queasy, turning green | |
| 1997 Jun 28 | Cry the Narcotic Laundry | I dreamed a quaint equation | |
July | |||
| 1997 Jul 7 | On Knowing Little Tess | Her hair falls short of a pageboy's crop | |
| 1997 Jul 9 | One Last Later | Betrayed! The voyeur's curtain | |
| 1997 Jul 13 | Fetch Away Fish! | Yellowing leaves frame a watery sky | |
| 1997 Jul 23 | Mind My Forgotten Puddleduck | This overbearing convoy | |
| 1997 Jul 27 | What is Golden? | The curlew trolls to Nell of darkling hay | |
| 1997 Jul 30 | Surplus Penguins | Burn my Waiting-List | |
August | |||
| 1997 Aug 15 | Gloucestershire My Undiscovered Child | His elbow never faltered | |
| 1997 Aug 15 | Negligee Vector | The man who vilifies my tent | |
| 1997 Aug 18 | Whoever timely looks | I've eaten all the Urals | |
| 1997 Aug 29 | Never Once Promising To Underestimate Buns | Over the choppy leather line | |
| 1997 Aug 29 | Your Gerbils, My Hotelier | Before I sensed this vacuum | |
September | |||
| 1997 Sep 2 | Mozart once wrote the longest andleastenjoyable limerick ever to darken anthologiesof versification | Domestic bliss | |
| 1997 Sep 8 | Can poignant rubbish be reliable? | This is the way the lady rides | |
| 1997 Sep 10 | Highgate Hopeful | As we crested the brow of the ultimate hill | |
| 1997 Sep 14 | Lockjaw Imminent | Dead as any dodo | |
| 1997 Sep 15 | One moonbeam, undercooked | Three drops of cactus-water | |
| 1997 Sep 15 | What if the Princess Can Seem Sentient Without Dissembling? | Cardboard | |
| 1997 Sep 18 | The Pan Holds Mixed Croutons | The doctrine of a shining spoon | |
| 1997 Sep 20 | A Toasted Budgie in my Laxative | This extra leg's a bother | |
| 1997 Sep 20 | Echoes Echoes, Without | By 'Custody' I do not mean | |
| *** | 1997 Sep 26 | Who Causes Jetsam? | Gulls feed the sky |
| 1997 Sep 27 | Ornamental William Golding Glimmmers in Void | Pretty, pretty hermit | |
October | |||
| 1997 Oct 7 | Yes, Longer | Now the tyrant knows the truth | |
| 1997 Oct 11 | Reasonable Crimes Of Tarpaulin | Tribal animosity | |
| 1997 Oct 28 | The One Incorruptible Servomechanism (The Princes' Mile) | Fancy Wills and Harry, | |
| 1997 Oct 31 | Possible Idolaters in a Black Throat | In all my vast concerns | |
| 1997 Oct 31 | Finally, the Revelation that Armpits aren't Necessary | The twenty-first of Autumn | |
November | |||
| 1997 Nov 4 | A Particularly Contemporary Procedure | Particularly pleasing was the scent of new-mown hay | |
| 1997 Nov 6 | Michaelangelo's Lewd Little Brother | Frequently, my brother speaks | |
| 1997 Nov 22 | "Tomorrowismybirthday" cried Katharine's Wedding | Pile a hailstone on a hailstone | |
| *** | 1997 Nov 25 | Alice's Peculiar Revenge | Alice frowned; all around, leaves were falling to the ground |
| 1997 Nov 28 | Clustering (Algorithm Played on a Gumby) | Between the barns, half-buried | |
| 1997 Nov 29 | Requisite Tragedy | Christopher Robin was captured by those | |
December | |||
| 1997 Dec 9 | Breakfasting Traditionally | An arbitrary asp might say, | |
| 1997 Dec 9 | The Alchemist's Crusade | If all the world were turpentine | |
| 1997 Dec 12 | But Actually... | Although you're tall, and gifted | |
| 1997 Dec 14 | Of Struggling Poets and Pious Days | A ghastly mismeasure of woman, | |
| 1997 Dec 14 | Promising A Macrocosmic Disaster | If Dusseldorf were Dusseldorf | |
| 1997 Dec 16 | It's Entirely God's Business | Eleven, six or eight | |
| 1997 Dec 17 | The Hopeless Love Clients | One Phoenix, hankering for love | |
| 1997 Dec 19 | Therapeutic Heresies | In the field, no break of day | |
| 1997 Dec 21 | The Bethlehem Magnetometer | When skies are grey, the darkest thought | |
| *** | 1997 Dec 28 | Swimming While Drowned | Who were the Bewlay Sisters |