doug bentley Poems

old Leo! old Sphinx!

still standing
cubic solid
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timeclaws
pulled expand

from rim
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In the society of Man commerce and industry,
outer achievements of the extrinsic brain,
cultivated as expressing the highest faculty
reap general benefit for the general train.
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O! Canada!
30 some million
supremely
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if
after final breath

you find yourself
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my mind's eye from outer eye remove.
make senseless the argument of sense
that beauty not subject to sense prove
nor object to time that takes you hence.
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perhaps it's time
to parachute

one word
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a northern dweller-
ice monger to boot-
i bow to greet
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i peered into a glass pool
where, it's said, leprechauns live
but found no golden pot there, no
rainbow hued. no magic mushroomed.
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a grain of sand all heaven may hold,
and the stars spin round a flower;
alchemists exchange precious gold;
philosophers seek the stone of power;
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