Sidi Mahtrow Poems

There they be
Plain for all to see,
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'The poet understands
that the mast of a ship,
the gallows, and
the cross are made
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A harnet set in a hollur tree –
a proper spiteful twoad was he:
And a merrily sung while he did set
His tinge as shearp as a bagganet:
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The old man comes cautiously down
The stairs to the kitchen.
He takes the last step
That isn't there -
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I stand welcoming the rising sun
IOn the Myakka Prairie where morning's just begun.
The landscape's flat for miles around,
Silence, for it's miles to the nearest town.
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Found a lizard on the floor,
Was creeping toward the door.
T'was caught, in hand, clean
And after examination, healthy deemed.
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The seven acre farm permitted only just so
Many things to be or go
One was the keeping of a cow
Nor more could be allow’d
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Once in a forest deep
Lay one who was asleep
Dreaming of a place to be
Where 'equality' was the only way.
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Some years ago
When one's anxiety was aglow
Would light up a smoke and take puff
Then slowly exhaling, was enough
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THE LOWLY COMMA OR A PICKLE FOR THE KNOWING ONES
(or why use a comma?)

Lord Timothy Dexter anticipated the Danes,
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