Douglas Scotney Poems

He sees in hate
all he needs of love
and all of love he needs.
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Two yogis:
one, understanding,
thinks of good,
realizes place;
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While stroking a cat in the light
it's easy to sense
when one more stroke will mean strike.
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In the Uttaradhyayana Sutra
of the Svetambara Jains
a wife drives her husband to aversion
with the confounded jangling of her bangles.
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Predicting out of knowledge
is comfortable shoe business
for cold cats indubitably
and for cool ones, in the main.
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What symbols once a poet got away with
without the hint of an audience laugh.
What tragedy he could convey
with what he now must with a spade portray.
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Place is place
without dog,
what lifts spirit
and what lowers it.
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'Life Is For The Living'

With the above brand
at the top of all his shortened pages,
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So righteous is my denial
no daylight or reason can sway
and no attempt to corrupt via semen
will end
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Dear Poet-Saint,
While you are dervished,
schlurped up or down
by the volume of the matter
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