Douglas Scotney Poems

By combining Greek words,
'winged monsters' are 'pteroterata'.

All pterosaurs,
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If I
want to turn
a passage
into a poem,
...

My treasury* says
that grand buildings in Spain
converted to bed tourists
go by the name paradores.
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That patch you get
in the upper hoist quarter
of a nation's flag -
eg the blue and white one
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In a poem, a! ! (a 'loudest')
and a! (a 'louder')
can appear after a word
in any part of a sentence.
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I hear that poet of old
ask his lady dear
to put on weight.
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'From what is required of scissors
to mine small diamonds from cardboard,
our basic currency unit will be the snip;
100 carats will make up a snip',
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Mars' closeness to Earth
every two and a quarter years
seems a bit too short
to make of its waxing proximity
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We deny that our dreaming
is not a natural thing;
we believe that it is.
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and thought,
'dinosaurian needs
must have stretched
a fly's body and wings.
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