Ivan Donn Carswell Poems

a day spent assiduously
avoiding events ordained
in a bigger universe than
this tiddly one seems
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Resurgent greens and stronger hues
combined within the colours in-between
will spring again, the reddish brown
has nearly gone and all the silver
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On your birthday, today, there is time to reflect
On the essence of our intimacy,
From a beginning in the spring-tide of youth
To an afterward secured in the distant mist,
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If I didn’t mark this day in passing
if I didn’t make this date a part of
solid History I’d fail – a day to fix in
memory and memory will prevail
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My enemy my friend
whom I know without compromise,
when I listened to the
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So I was wrong
it proves I guess I am
the kind of guy whose
outside the square thinking
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a silly little cameo to
tease a smile from otherwise
engaged nonsensicalities
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No escaping them and
they are blessed by
origins survival true
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Allegorical? No way
it’s the stone age
truth coming out
in a rash
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And if it is but pride
distressed no price of
pain will pay for such
absurd rigidity; an
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