Douglas Scotney Poems

...those horrible white sky days of Adelaide,
I hate them for their glare.
They never let the fumes take flight;
Remind me of an office where
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We knew not on Aonian mount
The outskirts of pollution,
Needed not then, I know need now,
A negative solution.
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In company of quite different take
The poet went out dawdling
Down by Grasmere Lake.
Dead calm the lake, no wind.
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Now that he has gone,
credit him for our boldness.
Forgive him for his failings-
he feared he wasn't right.
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states:
The more there is in the air we breathe
the more it causes us harm,
whether the smell
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A neighbour finds a crane noble
who neither warns nor boasts.
Ripples, hindrance to scheme,
trigger the neighbour's dream
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..............gather father
bother mother
alive relive
siege sieve
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The best of the other in the one.
The best of the one in the other.
Either in the one or the other,
the best of the other or the one.
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There is no detectable sign of love
In man afraid of dying.
He's lost all love's design.
Or is it, increased signs of love
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