Douglas Scotney Poems

In darts,
the line from which you throw
is the 'oche'...
which is said to rhyme with 'hockey'.
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The English could have dumped 'frith' for 'peace'
after the Romans took them over,
or could have waited
till after the French took them too.
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Back in the 1820s already,
Byron extolled the toll road:
'so smooth, so level', so shaved;
cor!
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Out on the 16th of Sept,
for days look-out I've kept,
for the first shirley poppy flower.
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Hearing a favorite silent-movie star talking
can be so much a turn-off
that studios write into contracts:
'Talking in public forbidden
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Last night in bed with the light turned off
I radioed the end of the game of cricket -
not the game as we know it -
just England's loss of its last three wickets.
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Pose
makes artist's models
sweet on bonsai.
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Empty Vacuous,
envious of empty, childless Vain,
asked to mean childless too.
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