Thursday 17 July 2014

Discobbolos


 
Discobbolos

agnostic adjectives
blue boss-woss
child’s-play conjunctions
detached diction
epileptic ellipses
friend foss
galapagos grammar
holman haunts
incongruity inconsequential
jerusalem journeys
knock-knock knock-knees
lear-like lear-ning
mostly meaningful
nosey nouns
ornithological outsider
perspicacious pronouns
questions queer
runcible rhetoric
scroobious sentences
torrible toponyms
universal uncertainty
valuable verbs
white watercolours
xerxes excursions
year-like year-ning
zoological zeugma

Philip Harvey

Saturday 12 July 2014

Xanadu


Xanadu



                    auspicious air
barley barracks
                candelabra cacti
                          dilapidated dragonstones
   erstwhile estates
                          four-sided flow
                          gusting globeflowers
                    herbal halls
                          invisible infrastructure
         jade juts
   kublai khan
                       leafy layers
        mongolian marblemeadows
                          nothing now
        overgrown oblongs
            palatial pastures
                                       quiescent quadrangles
        rush ruins
                        stupa shrubs
                 tumbled tilework
 undertakings undone  
 vanished villas
                   weed-choked waterclocks 
              excavated exits
   yet yurts
                         zoomorphic zephyrs

Philip Harvey