Douglas Scotney Poems

After all my effort, care and money,
'Achievement',
thought the poet-gardener,
would be a proper name for my house;
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English showed sense
in drawing on Latin 'satis':
otherwise 'satisfied'
could have been 'enoughed';
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The elaborate
sensibility of Yuk-
io Mishima.
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Saying a poem's a pome's ok;
calling a poet a pote is not.
Why...I'll have you know it:
few words rhyme with poem;
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Re egos,
as soon as universally goes
the measuring of people
on their flat feet,
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Said by the French,
'Reims'
sounds
sort of
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From perusal of the history
of my poems that have been hit,
have thousands hit B: Xxxxxxvi: Naughtiness On The Side
or is one reader continually hitting on it?
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To me,
that, her in him he saw
and him in her
is not obscured;
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