David McLansky Poems

Hit Title Date Added
231.
Here The Poet Tries Not To Rhyme - Sugar Bowl Blues

I get up to go
For lately I have learned
That there is no promise
In this waiting, this exchange;
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232.
But What If No One Asks (A Riff)

But what if no one asks,
You're never mentioned,
Do we defy our task,
Transgress convention?
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233.
Paris Cafe: For Lillian

She sits and reads her livre de poche
And drinks her glass vin rouge,
And in her eyes are fragile tears
That secretly perfuse;
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234.
To An American Lady In Ireland

Did I miss you in Dunquin Town,
When you dropped your hankie
On the ground?
You could at least
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235.
Land Of Shinar

'Out of the Land of South Shinar....
Rises a jewel amid the stars....
In Cassiopeia's constellation, ....
The Queen and Goddess of Our Nation; '....
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236.
Raptor Xmas

Before pinning down
Their breakfast treat,
Raptors always
Wash their feet;
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237.
As I Stumble Into Darkness

As I stumble into darkness
Death has lost its empty starkness,
Just a little dopamine
Has given back its Hippie dreams;
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238.
On Owain Glyn's Temperance Club

On Owain Glyn's Temperance Club
I think it cruel
And not too funny
That a Welshman's luck
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239.
A Cry For Motherland: A Suggestion To Bolami Lawal

A Cry For Motherland
A suggestion
To Bolami lawal
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240.
Riff On Ima Ryma's One Last Gift

This is the clerk at New Windsor FedEx,
About your package wrapped with your ex,
You used a cheap brand of masking tape,
The sticky stuff was out of date
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