Douglas Scotney Poems

'Creativity Is Not Of Beryl
Use Her At Your Peril'
Said a sign up near the clock.
He used her,
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I went into it branded as a learner
for I had concern for the outcome;
which concern,
by entering unbranded,
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Along a way out,
giant rocks and dancing trees
question, who are we?
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all by Tradition
and out of Honor,
or Fear, or
Honor And Fear,
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My art didn't change when I mated,
my mate believed, '...it should,
and if it doesn't,
he must still be out looking,
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A strong perfume that cannot but escape its flask,
because it penetrates glass,
is memory,
out of which a soul first comes.
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Men and women are aware
they're no longer hushed by 'shock'
and openly address its excess;
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Men and Women of Australia
You are no longer hushed by 'shock'
You openly address its excess
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Squares,
meant to look like they were hovering above a series of fields,
became the gaps in a 2-D stack of octagons.
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In the time of the Nigerian schoolgirls,
the scrap had been on since Darwin.
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