Douglas Scotney Poems

Viler than any of night
are the horrors
of the gloom of GREY daylight,
when you glimpse the legs and hair
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Number one French word ‘voilà’
gives a sense of ‘at last! ’
when used to mean ‘now’.
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Pared right back:
in a cat's excessive sleeping,
no tweak for hell,
no hate of cold,
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Energized
by the scent of mesmerized women of a south sea shore,
men went to that shore
and mesmerized the women the more.
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Keep going the way you are going.
It will be a matter of time
before
you've used all the fuel you brought.
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Some go to so much trouble
to get across an idea.

Perhaps someone will be attracted by the frills
and then get seduced by an idea
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The sphinx,
with time to be bitter
for having fallen out of fashion
for all his cares,
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Aware of his flowery tongue
(See 'Elevation' a.k.a. 'Early Morning Light') ,
Bloating in their own quivered sweetness,
Twilight flowers despair at coming night:
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A sliver of convenient numbers,
usually less than a hundred,

or,
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There is a worker in clarity
extending what is there,
and one who is aware
what is isn't there.
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