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: The Violet Poem | |||
Title | First line | ||
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| 2003 Aug 4 | Await the Perilous | Remember, if you feel the urge to speak | |
| 2003 Aug 4 | Dour Poetry for Fools in Love | Roses are dead | |
| 2003 Aug 4 | Of Paisley | My wardrobe is my pride and joy | |
| 2003 Aug 4 | Heart Shines | The moon will nevermore | |
| 2003 Aug 4 | Prey Letters | I wandered lonely as a clod | |
| 2003 Aug 5 | The Quirky Quiver (Haiku) | Snow falls, cold winds blow | |
| 2003 Aug 5 | Strange Stretched | Life passes by at a thousand miles an hour | |
| 2003 Aug 5 | Phones and Windows | The phone is mute, a black hook | |
| 2003 Aug 5 | May I Apply for this Job? | On the morning of the seventh day of May | |
| 2003 Aug 5 | Invitation to Rather Unlikely Personnel | Should I invite you to my soiree? | |
| 2003 Aug 6 | Store Your Smiles | The store was stocked with many things | |
| 2003 Aug 7 | Things Seven Of Pairs Socks Cannot Provide | UNDERPANTS AND BLUCHERS | |
| 2003 Aug 7 | Nowhere in Particular (Man Talking) | On the Road to Nowhere | |
| 2003 Aug 7 | Fight the Defiant Epithets for Sleeping Chickens | The customer is always right! | |
| 2003 Aug 7 | Limerick Whore | Limerick Funfest | |
| 2003 Aug 11 | Too Worse | It was much softer yesterday | |
| 2003 Aug 12 | Because the Orchestral Are Orchestral | Flutes are mainly known by their ability | |
| 2003 Aug 13 | Around The You You Tree | I think that I shall never find, a poem as lovely as your behind | |
| 2003 Aug 15 | Apocalyptic Rumor | I heard this rumor in class today..correct me if I'm wrong: | |
| 2003 Aug 17 | Steel Safari of Red Rivers | Said the zebra to the lion, "Why in heaven are you cryin'?" | |
| 2003 Aug 18 | Pantoum of Brevity | Looking down through the shadows | |
| 2003 Aug 18 | Calculating Between | The calculator is calculating its own lifespan | |
| 2003 Aug 18 | Synthetic Harmony, Synthetic Reflections | Another new poem, now what will it be? | |
| 2003 Aug 20 | Moooon | Moon bars, moonbeams, mooning honeymooners | |
| 2003 Aug 20 | Only A Warthog Won't | Goofy Haikus | |
| 2003 Aug 23 | But For a Novice | Matilda tolled the churchyard bell | |
| 2003 Aug 25 | Sounds Like the Vampire Abroad | The beating of a distant drum | |
| 2003 Aug 25 | Lilliputians - My Play on Their Set | Lilliputians in my lap | |
| 2003 Aug 26 | Who's To Absolve the Jersey Stitch? | There was a young nun from Hoboken | |
| 2003 Aug 26 | Holographic Implant | Tales of magic and mystery | |
| 2003 Aug 27 | Cupcakes For Jesus | So many Herberts with which to contend | |
| 2003 Aug 28 | Contemplate the Stuff | Let the sun shine in! Or let it rain. | |
| 2003 Aug 29 | Inter-Planetary Tomfoolery | I once took a spaceship to Mars | |
| 2003 Aug 29 | Yurt Optometrist | Perpetuating structures: these | |
| 2003 Sep 1 | Even Time Will Have to Tread the Path | A thousand opportunities | |
| 2003 Sep 1 | Nirvana in Daylight | I think I'll tiptoe over there | |
| 2003 Sep 2 | A Relief | An uncle, all carbon | |
| 2003 Sep 2 | One Cat for Every Lear | How blithely do the flivvers fly | |
| 2003 Sep 3 | Guilelessly, No | Gus Grissom ... wasn't he the dude | |
| 2003 Sep 3 | Cummerbunds Will Fall (2004) | Predictions for the Coming Year | |
| 2003 Sep 4 | Air Is Saleable To Those Who Don't Care | Billy Mays here, Folks, to tell you about an incredible new product: | |
| 2003 Sep 5 | The Circus Elephant Blues | My tutu's not starched and my toe shoes are scuffed | |
| 2003 Sep 5 | Truly, I Have Subverted You | I can't help but note that your navel is inverted | |
| 2003 Sep 6 | Sister Sarah and the Beef Panic | Whatcha gonna do when the money runs out? | |
| 2003 Sep 9 | The Chrysostom Cathedral | Chrysostom ... wasn't he the saint | |
| 2003 Sep 11 | One Less Day to Remember | Journal Entries | |
| 2003 Sep 16 | Through the Days of Smouldering | I can barely remember the time | |
| 2003 Sep 17 | A Meadowlark Crumbling in Basalt | A costive agent knows too well | |
| 2003 Sep 18 | My Blotter | The ink was barely dry upon the page | |
| 2003 Sep 20 | Drooling Without Dementia | An empty page is | |
| 2003 Sep 20 | Kindly Mind My Zoo | Kruschev and me | |
| 2003 Sep 22 | My Misadventures Began in Cleveland | Inaccurate, like any map | |
| 2003 Sep 22 | Mugged | Coffee mugs are breeding grounds | |
| 2003 Sep 22 | Minstrels Really Know | The Troubadour was travelling, his merry band in tow | |
| 2003 Sep 23 | Why Listen? | If wishes were horses | |
| 2003 Sep 24 | Yellow Pasty Cavalcade | I've heard that folks that are from the U.K. | |
| 2003 Sep 24 | The Gospel of Even Numbers | My only brush with India | |
| 2003 Sep 24 | Blessed are the Circular | Blessed are the spoonbillers | |
| 2003 Sep 25 | The Intent Of Noses | Attend the tale of Jack the Lad | |
| 2003 Sep 27 | Noodle Ingests Itself | Mumbles not heard on any Pink Floyd album: | |
| 2003 Sep 28 | Hindsight Blindness | If I had known that this would be | |
| 2003 Sep 30 | Transcribed by Strangers that Float | Keep all new songs as softly sweet as mine | |
| 2003 Oct 1 | A Challenge To The Juvenile | How many times have you started a line | |
| 2003 Oct 1 | Forlorn Ode To Verse | On Helicon, the Muses gather round | |
| 2003 Oct 2 | Straight Forward | tiny | |
| 2003 Oct 2 | The Flawed, But Somehow Delightful Vacation | Let us retire to France | |
| 2003 Oct 7 | Horizons Known Only to the Certain | Over the listing, under the stamp | |
| 2003 Oct 8 | Plutarchs Anthill Blues | When flying on a jumbo jet | |
| 2003 Oct 9 | Dancing the Inevitable | Why must you dance the lambada? | |
| 2003 Oct 10 | Right Nestled Securely Among Wrong | Our old friend, haiku | |
| 2003 Oct 10 | Let's | U LKE 2 HIKU? | |
| 2003 Oct 13 | A Lacklustre Paragon | Changed the channels 'til my fingers bled | |
| 2003 Oct 15 | Haunted Colours | Lacerated insights pour into my head | |
| 2003 Oct 16 | Sleeping Is Ignorance | While trudging through the swamp let us endeavor | |
| 2003 Oct 17 | Reinstate War Fun | You've seen but a few of my numerous failings | |
| 2003 Oct 17 | Any Old Moth-Eaten Universe | This plethora of pickles | |
| 2003 Oct 18 | Naughtiness As Can | I once knew a good sick ducker | |
| 2003 Oct 21 | Upside-Down Cat Blues | Sometimes I feel I'm going insane | |
| 2003 Oct 22 | Cooper's Atomic Dogmeal | Inside this barrel - don't you know? - | |
| 2003 Oct 23 | Gene Pylons | Andromaque: 'twixt bloodied sheets | |
| 2003 Oct 26 | Profit and the Usual Umbrage | Lest we profit from the slides | |
| 2003 Oct 27 | Delusions are my Family | I love you because | |
| 2003 Oct 28 | Mouldy Hiccough | It | |
| 2003 Nov 1 | Yo-Ho-Ho, Piratical Barnacles | Avast me hearties! Haul away! | |
| 2003 Nov 3 | Lawfully Invalidated Fishing Permit | A pound of osmium breaks all banks | |
| 2003 Nov 3 | The Unwanted Haiku | I hate raking leaves | |
| 2003 Nov 5 | We Are More Free In Play | I'd like to haiku | |
| 2003 Nov 7 | Spoons Succumb To Fawkes | A stack of broken furniture is set ablaze tonight | |
| 2003 Nov 8 | Debauchery, Alcohol, And Nothing Left | There appears to be much merriment tonight | |
| 2003 Nov 10 | Vanishing Dustbins In Dagenham | Disappear into the mist! | |
| 2003 Nov 11 | Poem Against The Removal Of Divided Teeth | Remember, sir, when spooning with your bill | |
| 2003 Nov 12 | Till Eulenspiegel For Amateurs | There never has been a good time | |
| 2003 Nov 12 | Vacancy Is All The Rage | This mournful empty space | |
| 2003 Nov 18 | Glyphs And Cryptographic Chance | Red rocks; blue skies; a snooze and air refreshed | |
| 2003 Nov 18 | The Virginal Chorus Sings Alleluia | Her clavicle was something to behold | |
| 2003 Nov 20 | Tuppence For The Battery | Marie looked, but saw herself no more, | |
| 2003 Nov 20 | Toothy | After searching high and low, I finally found | |
| 2003 Nov 21 | Only Known Criminals And Their Zebras | I think I saw an eagle fly across the Interstate | |
| 2003 Nov 23 | Never Knowingly Renounce Walk-on Parts | A small incision in the chest-wall | |
| 2003 Nov 25 | Classes Unusual In School Environs | 'Mediæval frolics in the gym?', the porter queried, | |
| 2003 Nov 25 | If Bentley | George Dubbya Bush | |
| 2003 Nov 27 | Your Own Secret Body | A mesomorph, a mesomorph | |
| 2003 Nov 28 | Hades Doesn't Matter | Persephone will not emerge; I've heard it from the highest source | |
| 2003 Nov 29 | Sold For Leather | It's time to shampoo my peruke | |
| 2003 Dec 1 | Collisions | Listen, my children, and you shall hear | |
| 2003 Dec 3 | Situtationist Funeral | Pallbearers of uneven height | |
| 2003 Dec 4 | Sometimes Almost Roundish | Pasquale's famously roundish tartan muffled | |
| 2003 Dec 5 | Lament For The Unseen Cake | Who will come with me, who will come play? | |
| 2003 Dec 8 | Rude Feminism | Carol took my G.I. Joe and hitted him with a stick | |
| 2003 Dec 10 | Biscuitry In Clean Sheets | Mine was only mortar | |
| 2003 Dec 12 | Pies And Astrolabes | Body-rot, on crocodiles | |
| 2003 Dec 13 | Boutiques Full Of Festive Knick-knacks | Greensleeves and wassail, angels galore | |
| 2003 Dec 15 | Loneliness Corrupted By Fishes | Homesick while at home--candles melt like promises | |
| 2003 Dec 18 | Lyrics To Kill The Bliss Of Heart-throbs | Her tortured lip was dripping blood | |
| 2003 Dec 23 | Peaches En Famille | This mortal skull that looks on me | |
| 2003 Dec 30 | Why Not? Your Knots Do! | "Compliments of the season" annoys me beyond reason | |
| 2004 Jan 2 | That Otherwise Fruitful Humanity | Where has haiku gone? | |
| 2004 Jan 3 | Avoid The Dossier | This page is discontinued | |
| 2004 Jan 8 | The Giant Eyes Of Friendship | Don't take offence at what I say, | |
| 2004 Jan 13 | Athens Whose Ruins | What venom lies behind the name | |
| 2004 Jan 14 | Leadership Fails Turtles | He used to be, so rumor has, the Dean of Men at Alcatraz | |
| 2004 Jan 28 | Of Sailors And Their Ways | I'll tell you the tale of ham-handed Hannah | |
| 2004 Jan 29 | Mayoral Heart-throbs | A burst of poignant doctrine | |
| 2004 Feb 2 | A Plurality Because Of Our Nausea | Let's not forget the little ones | |
| 2004 Feb 5 | Concealed In Plain Leather | Of all the nights I've spent abroad | |
| 2004 Feb 6 | Questions, Not More | When You've made all Creation in just seven days | |
| 2004 Feb 10 | The Better To Infiltrate Someone's Affections | I never saw you in a dream | |
| 2004 Feb 13 | I Won't Be Flying Anywhere Near Basildon | There's time enough for changing sides | |
| 2004 Feb 18 | Doom Dealt Deftly | The djinn that made me sneeze | |
| 2004 Feb 23 | No, Angels Shouldn't | To cling, once more, to selfsame forms | |
| 2004 Mar 3 | Musical Accomplishments Involving Instruments Of Zinc | It's fine to play the didgeridoo, but please not in the office loo | |
| 2004 Mar 4 | It's Unoffically Denied Until Proven | Now the news is out, | |
| 2004 Mar 12 | Beyond Her Final Finery | Mow the news is out | |
| 2004 Mar 19 | Collaborating, Supposedly | To polevault, or to stay in bed? | |
| 2004 Mar 24 | Milk Manoeuvres | Free, with every Guernsey cow | |
| 2004 Mar 30 | To Heroic Bakery | Crumpets, muffins and baguettes | |
| 2004 Apr 2 | Faithful Enough Before Lunch | At the age of thirty-seven | |
| 2004 Apr 14 | Brief Lives Last Sunday | People from Purley like getting up early | |
| 2004 Apr 20 | She Never Even Saw His Noble Bonfire | Without ever eating | |
| 2004 Apr 24 | Brigade Of Billabongs | In conclusion, Speckled Jim | |
| 2004 Apr 26 | Bayonets Programmed To Twirl | Scarcely welcome though she was | |
| 2004 May 9 | Surprise Dentistry | At a quarter past one on the fifteenth of May | |
| 2004 May 17 | Pork Beam Custard | Palpably encoded in the Turing mould | |
| 2004 Jun 1 | Sing Soprano Like They're Sniffing | A venerated halibut consecrated mass | |
| 2004 Jun 22 | Lotteries Bring Us Little Snowdrops | Divest yourself of all your wealth! | |
| 2004 Jul 1 | Defenestrating Our Noisome Entertainers | Beckham, Rooney, Owen and Scholes | |
| 2004 Jul 7 | Lighthouse Magic | It came upon the midnight clear | |
| 2004 Jul 9 | North-east Is Henceforth Banished | A globe for tea, crammed high with brine, | |
| 2004 Jul 9 | Hideum Cat | Banalities, encountered twice, | |
| 2004 Jul 13 | Weather-vane Warning | Behind the grizzled pine | |
| 2004 Jul 18 | America Next Thursday Or Thereabouts | Thou old, unruly turban | |
| 2004 Jul 27 | Swedish Substitute For Previously Contaminated Dessert | Speciously, you are so fine! | |
| 2004 Aug 16 | Knighthood For Those In Direst Destitution | I chanced upon a shouting match | |
| 2004 Aug 17 | It Might Not Be That Scrap | When coupled with that | |
| 2004 Aug 20 | Biblical Sheep-dip Nonsense | No more strumpets, | |
| 2004 Aug 24 | Raskolnikov Spotless, Adrift Upon Oceans | Jesuitical was his way | |
| 2004 Aug 26 | They Astray | On coming home at last | |
| 2004 Sep 1 | Plans For Nobody | Andromeda, I cry to thee | |
| 2004 Sep 2 | Adrift Beyond Our Reckoning | Three hobbling blondes | |
| 2004 Nov 14 | Hittite Words Of Unforgiving | A gentleman of oriental character | |
| 2004 Nov 18 | Mine Or Not To Be | Your clone is a much better lover | |
| 2004 Dec 9 | Please Let Us Pronounce Each Syllable Better | One for the money, two for joy | |
| 2005 Jan 4 | Cycling Behind The Traces | Coded in the final hour | |
| 2005 Jan 7 | Is Nothing Valueless | Once quite temperamental | |
| 2005 Jan 16 | Deatiny Shaped By Simpletons | State of action: quite inert | |
| 2005 Jan 24 | Keatsian Devices | Grecian urns do not inspire these words | |
| 2005 Feb 3 | Systemic Gouda | Stale cheese croutons in my jar | |
| 2005 Feb 8 | Drive-By Morality | So how ya doin', Mrs. Knapp? | |
| 2005 Feb 11 | Desperate Kippers | Just a tingling kind of pain | |
| 2005 Feb 21 | Still, Inkpots Leave Stains | Will you be f***ing p***ed if I use asterisks? | |
| 2005 Feb 28 | Dog-biscuit Dunking | I paid for all this road myself | |
| 2005 Mar 18 | Eye-Flavored Scrutiny | Prodigiously attractive | |
| 2005 Mar 29 | Nothing More Redundant Than Thought | Stagnation, degradation | |
| 2005 Apr 12 | Over Blighty Dipping | Men who pause | |
| 2005 Apr 26 | Our Socratic Brethren Will One Morning Save The Welsh Unaided | Plato's grin did shame the sun | |
| 2005 May 17 | Tears Before Tonsils | Lethal injection, on the tide, | |
| 2005 Jul 11 | Highways, Byways, Afterthoughts | Kaleidoscopes in bronze and zinc | |
| 2005 Jul 22 | For The Draining-board That Survivors Clutch | Step this way, you man o' war, | |
| 2005 Jul 30 | Tantric Diagrams | The empty vest had seen some times | |
| 2005 Aug 23 | Why We Ought Not To Bellow Faintly Throughout Our Dinner | Betrayed by movements in the dark | |
| 2005 Sep 1 | My Third Empire | In this haystack, L. P. Hartley | |
| 2005 Sep 6 | Neolithic Muesli | Grizzled, in a state of tears, | |
| 2005 Sep 19 | Charity Enough For Now | Action is as action does | |
| 2005 Oct 15 | Airworthy Kitchens | Dross of ages past is ours | |
| 2005 Nov 23 | The Interplanetary Concavity Is How Deep | Good Men, our good ship's run aground | |
| 2005 Dec 8 | No Thanks, Kenneth | Are you going to Scarborough Fair? | |
| 2006 Jan 2 | Winged Things That Reek Of Myrrh | In dreams of dimes and happenstance | |
| 2006 Jan 5 | When This Ends We Shall, Too | I sprawl, I sprawl | |
| 2006 Feb 25 | Decorated With Hasty Stitches | Not another nugget | |
| 2006 Mar 9 | Not A Proper Postman | More of me, and less of you | |
| 2006 Mar 15 | Where Is It Going To End? | My old conveyor belt | |
| 2006 Mar 29 | To Dissuade Potential Consumers | You claim that you've heard it before | |
| 2006 Apr 18 | Implications | Take a pinch of mustard-seed | |
| 2006 May 1 | Vienna In Pencil | Fleeting vision, yesternight, | |
| 2006 May 11 | 22 Catheters Soaked By Circumstance | Who could resist | |
| 2006 May 15 | The Weather Of Mine Heart | Catch 22 | |
| 2006 May 30 | Pork-pie Hatred In Stoke | I hefted bricks of twenty pounds | |
| 2006 Jun 3 | How It Was Before | Astride an ice-cold anvil | |
| 2006 Jun 8 | Hereinafter Hake | To view the ocean from a cliff | |
| 2006 Jun 11 | Testimonial Of Unrest | A song for hake, an anthem, ho! | |
| 2006 Jun 15 | Show Me How Verdi Murdered Houdini | his pendulum might make you sneeze | |
| 2006 Jun 20 | Occasionally He Thinks | Oh! So now you're telling me | |
| 2006 Jun 22 | Distressing | Basingstoke is mentioned in Henry 4 Part 2 | |
| 2006 Jun 23 | Kill The Penny | Perfection in a postage-stamp | |
| 2006 Jul 28 | Market Anomalies Perpetrated By Emily Dickens | Because I could not stop for Lunch | |
| 2006 Aug 15 | The Lesson Of Days Before Tuesday | There's a red house over yonder | |
| 2007 Jan 5 | In Dreams of Counterfeited Harmony | They met at Domus Felix | |
| 2007 Jan 29 | Uniformly Bunyan | Futility is much admired, by those outside this burgh, | |
| 2007 Feb 14 | Who Shall Own Nerina Pallot | Nerina Pallot® sings divinely | |
| 2007 Mar 1 | Before More Nuns Knew Lisaveta Pilchard | Tirades against The Steady State | |
| 2007 Apr 11 | Our Blessed Foolery Again | Neo® caught me unawares | |
| 2004 Dec 11 | Watery Flapjacks, Damn It! | Adam and Eve had reason to grieve | |
| 2005 Apr 26 | Our Welsh Brethren Confess | Rushing from the Laundromat® | |