Douglas Scotney Poems

Thank you Byron,
for rhyming 'vermicelli'
with 'really' and 'jelly'.
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By 1824 at the latest,
amongst many a page
of artful, show-off, abababcc digression
before dad-pirate Lambro's rage,
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I thought I'd see
if I could strongly recall
just how green I once was
by going out to the poppies
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As the French call The Channel
La Manche, The Sleeve,
I wonder if they call a sleeve,
a channel -
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I'd carried my heart
so long in my hands
that they and my arms
grew as untiring as it.
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On the devil's staircase
going down to the beach
you don't count the number of steps;
but you do on the way back up.
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In strife
with 'knife',
'gnu', 'dough',
'height', 'eight',
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Dear Nephew,

I couldn't help hearing
a guy of little respect
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What chance is there
that you will see
the rarely seen person
later in the day,
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