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EXTREMELY SMALL POEMS BY PAM The oyster and I Needing some grit in the shell Her story my pearl (First senryu of 2014) Madam Many-chins Insists on salad, and eats Her husband's last chips (Grand Hotel 14/07/01) Thunder on Mountain - The superior woman Has sold her TV Paint in words the rich Smell of ripe red nectarines, Fill the room with rot Watery life hides: the crab shelters, fish disguise. The scorpion spies... When all minds concur The carp embraces his hook And the horse his spur When all words are one, A saint may take up the sword And a captive run. one man breaks away, His friends may ostracise him yet conspiracy fails Boy printing the turf With stolen pieces of a Stranger's name (Folk Memorials on the Great Orme) Silhouette on a Path to Heaven, happy dog, The sun goes to bed Beach-ball - Blue muscle of sea Flexing Larch lace emeralds In April sun butterflies Long lake of sapphire (Llyn Geirionydd 22/4/4) Spring mountains muffled Crouch for warmth over wildfire - Gorse-gold is stunning (29/04/04-to Anglesey again, cold!) The child is crying. Look! Money in the window! This is a cake shop... Springtime, boys bounce balls; Young men fancy tobacco - Gulls a cormorant (April 04) .......................................................................................................... Suddenly parallel Racing along the skyline Seven on horses Between sky and sand One flying line of dark script The sentence of death Far from the causeway Film framed in a car window One minute and gone (leaving Lindisfarne at 12h30 on the turn of the tide 2/06/04) .......................................................................................................... ''Organic meat One mile ahead''. The road bends - A gift of flowers (4/6/4) In Chester, grey, alone, He eats with orchids, folding Maps of the New Forest (21/07/04 - Thai restaurant) Flying ants - Behind her lightweight suitcase Small girl struggling (21-22/07/04) Her vast brown cleavage, Wild places full of fireweed Grab the attention (leaving Crewe station 3/09/04) Snow on the pansies - the people who always sent birthday cards are dead (16/04/05) Home from a fun-fair, Clutching hot dogs, huge prizes, Rude balloons stretching one small wing in sunlit quartz and fuschia a sparrow preening (IOM 16-18/06/04) Later on a bridge The same two white vans having A conversation (29/06/04-leaving Gillingham) Huddling weather; Cloud-smoke low in the forest Breath of nereids (Conwy valley 15-16/10/04) Through twin trees, harebells - Carrying clouds shoulder-high The Ben broods on blue (7-8 Aug 2005 Loch Eil) Pen dipped in gold Riding a river of light Mountains and rainbows (12/11/2005) Cordylines and frost Lone mermaid remembering Seashells live and die (19/11/05) One wet pink rose bends To watch me with the green hose At dusk moths and frogs Everything sparkles Slowly the mountains shrink as The town approaches May: clout-casting time North winds killing the lilacs My sons are strangers Fecund, her feet arch Like Manet's Olympia In scarlet satin (Aug.5th 2007-the harpsichordist-Theatre by the Lake) The purple woman Leaves rustling bustling Bursts of plastic rain (Coniston 7/8/2007) Goldfinches lunching Sharp starlings March wind twirling Sparrow carousels Enormous women Browsing tiny spring outfits Visiting pigeons mad March air hot cross mums battling british aisles the buggy grand prix (Easter 2008) Carnival season - He picks over the golf balls Like Mum checking spuds Twin pram, one baby, Lone Dad smiling - did the bears Get the other one? Jenny, eleven, Barks at dragons in the sun Shrieks of the children (Extravaganza 5/5/08) Weighed down by penguins And remorse, Mrs. BigBag Drowning with dolphins (May 2008-Wales Air Ambulance Charity shop) Step into the voice Behind her bent teeth, drab hair, Live the deep truth there. (Hull housewife meets the Duchess of York. ITV 19/05/08) Mayday! the child's plane Dives - our heroes flying home Remember Munich. (Manchester United win UEFA cup in Moscow-'this one's for Munich'. 21/22 May 2008) Time in reflection Mirrors that face each other Scales fall from our eyes (18/06/08-the maths of infinity) People without words Fake snakes behind hungry eyes Begin to tell lies ('Clever Monkeys' BBC2 25/11/08) Poor little Mum's boy Since Death cheated you of praise Willies and tombstones ('Imagine' Richard Serra, steel sculptor, BBCl 26/11/08) You sell your whole life To keep him from death. Fish with Blood on their faces (The postcode drugs lottery. 22/12/08) The Fall, changed world, then Slow blood, breath snatched, old cold bones The dead of Winter (Feb 2nd 2009 - nithering!) Slowly, lovingly Nature grew this bird, this bean - Handle them gently (Chicken-chucking, ASDA 13/03/09) Capital frozen Bare markets cold turkey pm Scotch on the rocks (26/3/09 - Gordon Brown insecure in wintry economical & actual climate!) Curtains. We have hurled Our whole lives headlong into A virtual world (24/06/09 - Pluto in Capricorn - state of the world a total mess.) Queuing in Barclays One - two - three - four blue ladies In hoods. No more pens! (September 2009) Ambulance on call Beating in perfect time wings Soaring and falling (9/9/9 - amid crowds on the Prom) Wind over water Principalities, Powers Danger to shipping (8/06/2010 -Too many wind-farms out at sea) |