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: Usquebaugh | |||
Title | First line | ||
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| 1997 Mar 23 | Upon Losing Worlds Of Azure | A summer's day, there comes an errant knight | |
| 1997 Apr 10 | 23 Babies In Maritime Tryst | 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 Jun 9 | Carbon Pump City | The never-ending cycle of the wars 'twixt good and ill | |
| 1997 Jul 23 | Mind My Forgotten Puddleduck | This overbearing convoy | |
| 1997 Aug 15 | Negligee Vector | The man who vilifies my tent | |
| 1997 Sep 2 | Mozart once wrote the longest andleastenjoyable limerick ever to darken anthologiesof versification | Domestic bliss | |
| 1997 Sep 14 | Lockjaw Imminent | Dead as any dodo | |
| *** | 1997 Sep 26 | Who Causes Jetsam? | Gulls feed the sky |
| 1997 Oct 31 | Finally, the Revelation that Armpits aren't Necessary | The twenty-first of Autumn | |
| 1998 Jan 27 | Night's Temporary Wrists | Carefully, she folds the fish | |
| 1998 Oct 3 | Shakespeare's apparent homily diverts the Thames ferry-men | Lay thee at my rump, thou contumelious sot | |
| 1998 Nov 25 | Pandora's Boxing-glove | I never tire of asking | |
| 1999 Jan 13 | Unending Mitigation | Remind me to unwind the clock | |
| 1999 Feb 2 | Endless Power, Our Sole Accomplishment | Inflamed with paranoia | |
| 1999 Mar 23 | An Entropic Encroachment | As we waited for the bus to mow the wicked postman down | |
| 1999 Jul 18 | My Slapdash Endgame | A Cautionary Tale | |
| *** | 1999 Aug 4 | Quite | Why, oh why, oh why, oh why? |
| 1999 Dec 16 | Claudius Jointless, Claudius Pointless | The other day I found a paper clip | |
| 2000 Jan 4 | Dome Settling Dimly | A thousand years and each one gone | |
| 2000 Jan 7 | Once Over Once Again | Three to one, three to one | |
| 2000 Jan 14 | A Whole Inuit Tooth | Orificial | |
| *** | 2000 Jan 31 | Adam's Ballooning Error | Whatever happened to darling Denise? |
| 2000 May 29 | Off Ovary Street | What baby spurns the cattle-grid | |
| 2000 Sep 11 | When Everest Falls Sick | If ever there were time for writing poetry, 'tis now | |
| 2000 Nov 26 | Once Is Never Too Rarely | Once, just once, could someone let me know | |
| 2001 Jan 11 | Sunday, We Confess | A monstrous sneeze assails the ears | |
| 2001 Feb 17 | Membrane One (Laughing Hoop) | If Joan of Arc wasn't a zombie | |
| *** | 2001 Nov 21 | Who Will Seldom Live Unseen? | Invitation, contradiction, punctuation, wedded bliss |
| 2002 Feb 5 | Defy the Hoariest Blanket | Savage is as savage does | |
| 2002 Aug 5 | The Lament of my Square Informal Tusks | The sergeant sighed as his steely gaze | |
| 2002 Aug 30 | Frau Jung Was My Mainstay | Donkey shot, the French would call it | |
| 2002 Oct 3 | On Pandora's Bonnet | Perhaps I should have told her, perhaps she should have seen | |
| *** | 2002 Nov 15 | Civic Pyjamas Akimbo | While editing the alphabet |
| 2002 Nov 27 | From Prussia Without Stamps | Mercator's projection had one tiny flaw | |
| 2003 Jan 9 | Regurgitate Afresh | I ring alarms with my Nan | |
| 2003 Aug 26 | The Popemobile In Escrow | I have it in mind to purchase a pie | |
| 2003 Sep 3 | Something Sinful For Basildon | Finally, the croissant burns | |
| 2003 Sep 18 | Sound-Effects for Hitchcock's Railway | These neatherds know a trick or two | |
| 2003 Oct 1 | Railing Against Sooty | I promise not to mention lice | |
| 2003 Nov 12 | Does Anybody Else Think That We Aren't Seeing Much? | The paupers, intimiate with secrets of the court, | |
| 2003 Nov 25 | Dubious Peacenik | A walking shrub shall grace our shores | |
| 2003 Dec 9 | Carbuncle City From My Window | Erotic gherkin, looming in the dusk | |
| 2003 Dec 29 | Something Beyond Hymenoptera | The version I favour | |
| 2004 Jan 20 | Bleak Housing | Ten to a bed, the children slept | |
| 2004 Jan 27 | Womenfolk Taken Aback | When shifting the permanent way | |
| 2004 Feb 10 | Those Poor Breakdancing Triplets | The birth canal has many locks | |
| *** | 2004 Mar 8 | A Mile Beyond The World May Be A Maiden | Congealing in a fusty box |
| *** | 2004 May 18 | Calling For A Funicular Tramway Service | While strutting through the quicksand |
| 2004 May 28 | Desist, Whoreson Knave, Lest Great Cudgellings Befall Thee | To count the rings of Saturn | |
| 2004 Jun 3 | Bailiff Only Because | Beyond the reach of kettle-leads | |
| 2004 Jul 2 | The Denouement Of Vermicelli | The blank screen gazes remorselessly back | |
| 2004 Aug 17 | Robbers Never Stopped Us Before Lunch | It started at quarter to one | |
| 2004 Aug 27 | Westwards In Search Of Undiscovered Pastries | Despite his utter shabbiness | |
| 2004 Sep 17 | Epic Oration Looms To Starboard | In time to come, rememb'rance of this hour | |
| 2005 Jan 4 | Houndstooth Canal | It seemed as though I'd never been away | |
| 2005 Jul 25 | Mine Shaft Mendicants, Their Oath | If I told you how I feel | |
| 2006 Feb 10 | Who Prefers Bedsocks? | The little prophets of an idol-king | |
| 2006 Mar 15 | Homeward Boundary | We flee the sun, and head back to the gray | |
| 2006 Jun 16 | Sacks Of Moonshine | Out here in the wasteland | |
| 2006 Aug 1 | Equator Blown Over | I never met my sister till I was twenty-three | |