Douglas Scotney Poems

'Life Is For The Living'

With the above brand
at the top of all his shortened pages,
...

So righteous is my denial
no daylight or reason can sway
and no attempt to corrupt via semen
will end
...

Dear Poet-Saint,
While you are dervished,
schlurped up or down
by the volume of the matter
...

If we say it was an accident
that life came about
and stage it
so we create our own
...

Sometimes
'You can sense'
is followed by
'You are a mountain'
...

When sources were stretched
by Chinese demand,
getting love over quick
was a major concern
...

not malicious,
but bad in the sense that
no-one could be qualified
to do what they were doing,
...

The extra house by the sea:
possible,
desirable, inevitable,
for the train, the car, the colony;
...

Bonus payments for his skills
were made in the tools he used
to exercise those skills.
...

title
three words
last word
foundations, establishments, organisations
...