Douglas Scotney Poems

Waxing high
a poet cried:

Mysterious child
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Baudelaire:
By the sky of a just-set sun
I recalled an imperishable line:
'Je croyais respirer le parfum de ton sang'*
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Best undiscovered wonders
Of earth and sky and void
Hardest ones to ease
Out of comfy nest,
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The dominant thought in America
Is that the gun
Should be available to everyone
Not excluding the stupid
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The one who stoked his day,
Why he went to war
And expectation of respect:
Let us hope these three
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Action engenders thought of ennui
precarious balance
skill
artful use of a tool
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1:
A monk, taken with utter silence by chrysanthemums
and with chrysanthemums by utter silence
saw chrysanthemums taken with utter silence,
utter silence taken with chrysanthemums
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A rose arose from the finest root
and bore a little flower
in the middle of the night and winter.
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Weapon wielders
Do well to know well
Dust
As cause of regret.
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With those who don't read you,
have never read
or ever will read,
soon,
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