Douglas Scotney Poems

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Speed Of Time

If I'd been into rhyme
as my lover slowly died
I would have rhymed
how slowly passes time.
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3.
Botanic Gardens

I brought back five leaves
from my Gardens walk
to test Richard
stuck in the car:
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4.
2014 Poet Wishes

2 actually.

For 2014
I would share the wish
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5.
Birth Of Day

Babe is night
And mum is day.
Dawn is day's lullaby
To ease the sense of emptiness
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Oaf

That sure sign
that you're dealing with poetry,
o' for 'of',
as in 'a glimpse
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B: Xxxxv: Measured Response

'Charming, windless days and nights...'
Are what I said I'd like
When winter came and asked.

(I wouldn't give it the smug satisfaction
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2 Poems On Contention

Shelled

But for a contretemps,
the war
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B: Xxxxxxxi: 'Cruel And Curious Dwarfs'

In a battle between host and hostage,
exponents of humours diverse,
each thought the other a hostage,
that the host had the upper hand
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B: Xxxxxxxii: The Sphinx

It says in the way it sits
It's involved in eternal dreams.
It would say the same, no doubt,
If it pulled itself inside out
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