Danny Draper Poems

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1.
For The Longest Time

For the longest time

Random absent reason bore
Irrational heinous deeds,
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2.
You Broke Your Leg?

Yes I broke my silly leg
That would account for the crutches!

How did it happen?
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3.
When All The Trees

When all the trees are tall and still
and Sun is shouldered on a hill,
Shadows drench a cooling gully
and nocturnal eyes begin to stir.
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4.
Race To The Bottom (With Apologies To John Masefield)

I must go down in the seas again, the lonely sea and to die,
And all I ask is a better life and a land to set that by,
And the world's kick and the wind's song and the white fists shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and great jaws breaking.
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5.
A Bag Of Seeds

Is the selfless heart not most self consumed?
Selfishly conceited by greater goods'
Dimly lit imperfect passage
To intoxication by self-righteous fervour?
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6.
No One, Is Buying Poetry

No one, is buying poetry.
You can barely give it away,
They might read it online, free,
But no one wants to buy it.
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7.
I Live In Hope (In Memory Of Martin Luther King Jr.)

I live in hope that one day
We will live in a world
Without discrimination and bigotry
Where our children will know love
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8.
And Wonder Where The Years Went

We stop visiting graves
In mind or real,
And wonder where
The years went.
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9.
Ode To A Tim Tam For Ruth Walters

Anticipation is its own reward
When satiated by so sweet a morsel,
So rare that something or someone is
Good and loved both inside and out.
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10.
A Theist Cure

Always I am accepting of others, but
That does not mean that I am interested, try
Holding your faith as sacred and private, and
Evade the falsehood that different is wrong, and
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