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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2007 *** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines — Poems by Colour | |
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Poems completed in 2006 | |||
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January | |||
| 2006 Jan 2 | Winged Things That Reek Of Myrrh | In dreams of dimes and happenstance | |
| 2006 Jan 3 | Over By The Time She Smells The Brie | Sunk by the Spanish Amanda | |
| 2006 Jan 4 | Clockwork Catechism | You say 'tornado' | |
| 2006 Jan 5 | When This Ends We Shall, Too | I sprawl, I sprawl | |
| 2006 Jan 8 | Such Conditions As Warrant Swift Kickings By Magistrates | Your claws, My Dear, are half your charm | |
| 2006 Jan 10 | Nobody Shaves Oswald | In search of the perfect asparagus | |
| 2006 Jan 11 | How Silently, How Clumsily | Behold, the Fifth Amendment | |
| 2006 Jan 11 | Trampling Your Toes On | Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord | |
| 2006 Jan 11 | Enduring Without Succor | If fish could scream | |
| 2006 Jan 12 | Their Original Desk-top Microphones | In my ending is my start | |
| 2006 Jan 14 | They May Well Abandon Ship | Kansas Sam, Beefy, Will H, Karin, Grayman et al. | |
| 2006 Jan 19 | It Seems Pointless To Polka | Handel's Croatian | |
| 2006 Jan 25 | At Equal Intervals | The other day (or was it night?) | |
| 2006 Jan 26 | Off Kilter | All is confirmed | |
| 2006 Jan 26 | Another Round Of Hand Puppets For Reelection | All is confirmed | |
| 2006 Jan 29 | Handy Men Poised With Unguents | If beating fleas was my habit | |
February | |||
| 2006 Feb 1 | Tombola Parking | When at night I go to sleep | |
| 2006 Feb 10 | Who Prefers Bedsocks? | The little prophets of an idol-king | |
| 2006 Feb 10 | Boots Were Made Before Souls | A basement, and a base intrigue | |
| 2006 Feb 11 | Flames Coated With Heavy Penalties | The flames were gone, but, yet, a tiny ember | |
| 2006 Feb 11 | The Great Critics | E wrote slowly, R wrote fast | |
| 2006 Feb 14 | Tithes Before Flamingos | If heebie has jeebies and hocus has pocus | |
| 2006 Feb 16 | Eating The Accountants Until Babbage Leaves | How we wonder, how we wonder | |
| 2006 Feb 16 | Sirloin Of Thanet | Give this custard just one stir | |
| 2006 Feb 16 | Absent White | Rimbaud, Verlaine and absinthe | |
| 2006 Feb 22 | Lesbian Cookbook Virtues | Call your mother now and then | |
| 2006 Feb 22 | Slighted By Angels | Bandsaw. Egret. Alpenstock. | |
| 2006 Feb 23 | We Can All Escape From This Hotel | Clutching and screaming they summoned you hither | |
| 2006 Feb 24 | Lodestar Of The Ballooning Nurse | We changed your appointment | |
| 2006 Feb 24 | Our Road Is Hardly Justified | Put me through the paper shredder | |
| 2006 Feb 25 | Decorated With Hasty Stitches | Not another nugget | |
| 2006 Feb 28 | Wise Virgins Stitched In Gorgonzola | Vanishing by windmills, | |
March | |||
| 2006 Mar 2 | Half The Time Left To Us | Have you met my little friend, Bip? | |
| 2006 Mar 2 | Injunctions To The Barricades | Bring me the bones of a man who is broken | |
| 2006 Mar 6 | Chance Coupling Without The Responsibility | Massive friction, from her waist, | |
| 2006 Mar 7 | Yorick And Friends | The azimuth is past | |
| 2006 Mar 8 | Shogun Marmalade | Sveldt in someone's turban | |
| 2006 Mar 9 | Not A Proper Postman | More of me, and less of you | |
| *** | 2006 Mar 9 | NB: In Memoriam | The blackest of shields by the light of the moon |
| 2006 Mar 9 | The Protective Turnip, Terrified Of Nightmares, Is Already Failing Under My Tutelage | I had a date with a girl named Fred | |
| 2006 Mar 10 | To Haunt Each Dervish Daily | I like the cut of your jib and the fact that you always vote lib | |
| 2006 Mar 14 | The Death Wish List | When Doomsday comes, where will you be? | |
| 2006 Mar 15 | Where Is It Going To End? | My old conveyor belt | |
| 2006 Mar 15 | Homeward Boundary | We flee the sun, and head back to the gray | |
| 2006 Mar 16 | Godliness In Three-four Time | He walked his widow home | |
| 2006 Mar 20 | All The Benighted Croutons | When choosing the proper wine | |
| 2006 Mar 25 | Wallpaper For Beavers | I found your umbrella | |
| 2006 Mar 29 | Ethereal Sequence | Ether, real | |
| 2006 Mar 29 | To Dissuade Potential Consumers | You claim that you've heard it before | |
| 2006 Mar 29 | Seeing As We Amuse Your Garden | Oh raucous bleating | |
| 2006 Mar 30 | Bread-van Impasse | Reptilinear | |
April | |||
| 2006 Apr 4 | Echoes Of Ashes | Mississipi, come to me! | |
| 2006 Apr 4 | Powers That Remain Potent | A night of perfect chaos | |
| 2006 Apr 5 | Dreary Days Compounded By Snowstorms | Have you seen the Nothing man, | |
| 2006 Apr 7 | "How Curious!", Quoth The Melancholy Shrike | Engrossed by the maudlin | |
| 2006 Apr 18 | Implications | Take a pinch of mustard-seed | |
| 2006 Apr 20 | Each Circle Will Shake | Judicious combination | |
| 2006 Apr 21 | A Cynical Attitude Toward Roadrunners | Out here in the wasteland | |
| 2006 Apr 26 | Attempts At Ironic Posturing | My bunny lies over the ocean | |
May | |||
| 2006 May 1 | Vienna In Pencil | Fleeting vision, yesternight, | |
| 2006 May 4 | Louse, Louise | Feasting on the gouts of blood | |
| 2006 May 4 | Good Bugs | We must perform a Quirkafleeg | |
| 2006 May 10 | Love For A Piglet | Nobody comes, nobody goes | |
| 2006 May 11 | White Hotels, Lakes Ablaze, And Blossoms All Falling | Made deaf by the sound of the sea | |
| 2006 May 11 | Fester, Farewell | Fester, farewell | |
| 2006 May 11 | 22 Catheters Soaked By Circumstance | Who could resist | |
| 2006 May 12 | Kiki On Speed | The glittering lights of Montmatre in her eyes | |
| 2006 May 12 | When London Rose | Could it be summer's here? | |
| 2006 May 12 | Only Lagging | At altitudes like these | |
| 2006 May 12 | Elixirs Of Godknows What | I took a sip. I didn't know | |
| 2006 May 15 | Men Without Equations | Are you prepared to reveal | |
| 2006 May 15 | Yes, Cheese Is Edible | I'm glad to see your back | |
| 2006 May 15 | The Weather Of Mine Heart | Catch 22 | |
| 2006 May 15 | Cliches But No Answer | If brevity's the soul of wit, | |
| 2006 May 22 | Jabberwocky, The Lyrics | Be wary of the snigglewats | |
| 2006 May 23 | None Save The Meistersinger | First with the frost | |
| 2006 May 23 | Into The Vegetable | A carrot lay upon the bank | |
| 2006 May 24 | Mute Soup And Memory Faded | I met a man whose nose extended | |
| 2006 May 25 | What Loving Euthanasia | Clunk! Whrrrrrrr. Zzzzng. | |
| 2006 May 29 | Longshoremen Fit Only For Nightmares | We've gathered together today | |
| 2006 May 30 | Inbred Heirloom | To generate hysteria, the Queen declared the area | |
| 2006 May 30 | Pork-pie Hatred In Stoke | I hefted bricks of twenty pounds | |
| *** | 2006 May 30 | Phoenix, Bored | Is no-one here to waken me? |
| 2006 May 31 | Simulacra Of The Smaller Variety Found In Brighton | When they talk about Eau de Cologne | |
| 2006 May 31 | The Legend Of The Sphere | I'll tell you the tale of a boy from the East | |
June | |||
| 2006 Jun 3 | How It Was Before | Astride an ice-cold anvil | |
| 2006 Jun 6 | Ibstokon, Who Prefers All Comers | The prunes were laid out, row on row, | |
| 2006 Jun 7 | Lark Ovaries | Have you ever thought of trimming your moustache? | |
| 2006 Jun 8 | Hereinafter Hake | To view the ocean from a cliff | |
| 2006 Jun 9 | The Thursday Matinee | No lack of contentious divisions | |
| 2006 Jun 11 | Testimonial Of Unrest | A song for hake, an anthem, ho! | |
| 2006 Jun 12 | No Peppermint Drops | The clouds are filled with bicycles | |
| 2006 Jun 12 | Monday Present | Before you read the second line | |
| 2006 Jun 13 | Concerto For Nobody And Drum | When the new one comes out | |
| 2006 Jun 14 | Complicated Whimper | When cloning pigs or kangaroos | |
| 2006 Jun 15 | Show Me How Verdi Murdered Houdini | his pendulum might make you sneeze | |
| 2006 Jun 15 | How Many Such Openings Have We Squandered? | Astride a red-hot anvil | |
| 2006 Jun 15 | Fasting Myths | That loathsome letter taints the page | |
| 2006 Jun 16 | Dragon-tail Drunk | Going out again | |
| 2006 Jun 16 | Night Thoughts | When o'er the willows whipporwills | |
| 2006 Jun 16 | Sacks Of Moonshine | Out here in the wasteland | |
| 2006 Jun 16 | Lettuce For Sodomy | A beach-ball and a pancreas | |
| 2006 Jun 18 | His Lucky Skull Has Perished | In his ochre jodhpurs | |
| 2006 Jun 20 | Occasionally He Thinks | Oh! So now you're telling me | |
| 2006 Jun 20 | The Lost Banter | Thou, pollen, art my nemesis | |
| 2006 Jun 21 | Steam Calendar | St. Swithin's Day? Is that in May? | |
| 2006 Jun 22 | Grave Mayhem | An awful example of verse | |
| 2006 Jun 22 | Distressing | Basingstoke is mentioned in Henry 4 Part 2 | |
| 2006 Jun 23 | Tights For A Prophylactic Railroad | I shall not fail to summon you | |
| 2006 Jun 23 | Kill The Penny | Perfection in a postage-stamp | |
| 2006 Jun 24 | Torment Jemima For Bothering | My neighbours, then, the nomads | |
| 2006 Jun 24 | Outwardly Nubile | Let us go then, you and I | |
| 2006 Jun 25 | Beyond The Twelfth Night Service Desk | The faded lilies by the wall | |
| 2006 Jun 25 | Two Grebes Adrift | You shall not fail to summon me | |
| 2006 Jun 27 | Death Again | This mausoleum, filled with Zinc, | |
| 2006 Jun 29 | The Caretaker Who Cried Wolf | When once I bumped a smallish man | |
July | |||
| 2006 Jul 1 | Lingerie Throughout | Now harken to a tale so vile | |
| 2006 Jul 6 | Socialists Challenging A Shutdown | A dinghy's captain, fearing wreck | |
| 2006 Jul 7 | 51 Flavours of Diffusion | So very far from welcome | |
| 2006 Jul 17 | Drum Dazed | The hideous spectre of her purse | |
| 2006 Jul 18 | Void Of Open Finery | Beringed, beribboned, clad in silks | |
| 2006 Jul 18 | Longing For The Oligarch | Fun time for Natasha | |
| 2006 Jul 28 | Such Gravitas Is Wasted | Again, at the cathedral | |
| 2006 Jul 28 | Market Anomalies Perpetrated By Emily Dickens | Because I could not stop for Lunch | |
| 2006 Jul 29 | Ravioli Ramblings | Though Cecil balked at Puffy's plan | |
| 2006 Jul 31 | Malodorous Relatives By Night | A grave is not a flowerbed | |
August | |||
| 2006 Aug 1 | Equator Blown Over | I never met my sister till I was twenty-three | |
| 2006 Aug 1 | Nothing But Our Static Senses | The Witch-Queen wrought an awful curse: | |
| 2006 Aug 3 | Craig Levy, Moorhen | Now if six turned out to be nine | |
| 2006 Aug 3 | Eight Parrots, Seven Rogues | Hengist had the brightest sword | |
| 2006 Aug 9 | Kill None But The Brave Lover | No mistress is so passing fair | |
| 2006 Aug 10 | Never. Should We Windsurf | Don't forget to tie your shoes | |
| 2006 Aug 15 | The Lesson Of Days Before Tuesday | There's a red house over yonder | |
| 2006 Aug 23 | Night From Midnight | The Gates of Ivory and Horn | |
| 2006 Aug 24 | Our Score Was Enough For Zeke | I went to Zeke's to buy some paint | |
| 2006 Aug 31 | Cried The Idyll | Be not so blue, my dainty dove, | |
September | |||
| 2006 Sep 1 | Elizabethan Lemonade | It is said that a codpiece, selected to cover | |
| 2006 Sep 1 | Your Villain In This Style | A superhero needs a cape | |
| 2006 Sep 2 | Can Chewing | To sit with you at sunrise | |
| 2006 Sep 6 | The Surplus Blondes In Swindon | This poem is dedicated to the memory of Marmaduke Apsley | |
| 2006 Sep 7 | Showmen, Their Regrettable Legend | Tonsils made of plastic | |
| 2006 Sep 8 | The Blanched Almonds of Hoboken | The pool beneath the breakfast hall | |
| 2006 Sep 20 | Demanding Chocolate Money Back | While others stand empty | |
| 2006 Sep 26 | The Cauliflower Nuisance | Demanding menace with a payment, | |
December | |||
| 2006 Dec 15 | Hidden Works | Just a hint of twilight | |
| 2006 Dec 17 | He See Nothing With Relish | The price of dodging RSI | |