The Penelope Squad
“The Penelope Squad”
A line of bluebirds
tittering on a line
swaying on the winds
like comedian pageboys
having a good time
poop in the peg bucket
words wooden and sharp
fly off with frosty notes
dirt and sherry stains
imprinted on
Penelope’s clean sheets
a bunch of girl’s blouses
touching up waiving skirts
The Kingfisher
ruffles his comic’s feathers
sits like a swollen faced clown
behind his ruffled collar of blue
big beaked and all facade
feathers changing colours
he laughs at the butcher birds
overtaking the comedy of errors
in his ever blooming backyard
Mr Carnivorous frowns,
oh look, there’s the cat
panther pink scratchy tongue
whiskers on the rebound
name’s Poirot
pulling burrs out of it’s
soft footed paw
doesn’t have a clue
there’s a new kid in town
The Bush Turkey struts
her stuff
The Gobbler
greedy for love
has her story marked
the baby chick, named Odyssey,
grounded,
watches on
The Black Dog circles the yard
watches over them all
their silent sentry
and barks it’s black bark
The unfaithful slaves
weave their days
written
all numbered
with nodding heads and
mute chicanery
There sits Penelope wingless
on a perfectly manicured green lawn
wine glass in hand half full
with the white shoe brigade
and a big shiny black ball
Jack High!
Kingfisher You
Pims and a great flapping of wings
Frosty doesn’t like Blue
Plath wanders in
and suggests a bath
He’s going all Hemingway
sits Mr Groucho blushing
herbaciously periwinkle
he's gone all blue
sitting now in the nude
(LadyLabyrinth/2019)
https://youtu.be/cTAycSBW08s
Felt Mountain/Goldfrapp
birdsong on the first track of this fine album... just for those special moments when reminiscing over this poem ;)
https://youtu.be/kNodiuIjoyU
"Panic in Babylon - Aufheben"/BJM
1.
“The origin of her name is believed by Robert S. P. Beekes to be Pre-Greek and related to penelops or penelops, glossed by Hesychius as "some kind of bird" (today arbitrarily identified with the Eurasian wigeon, to which Linnaeus gave the binomial Anas penelope), where -elops is a common Pre-Greek suffix for predatory animals;however, the semantic relation between the proper name and the gloss is not clear. In folk etymology, Penelope is usually understood to combine the Greek word pene, "weft", and ops, "face", which is considered the most appropriate for a cunning weaver whose motivation is hard to decipher.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope
2.
“Jack High: when the nearest part of a bowl is in line with and at the same distance from the mat line as the nearest part of the jack.”
3.
Kingfisher
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2016/11/australias-fabulous-kingfishers/
Kookaburra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra
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