Douglas Scotney Poems

Omar could easily have said,
"If here with me
were a shady tree,
a book of verses,
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Though there are a lot more words
than a person can know,
new ones keep coming in.
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By the number of negatives
there must be god in them,
as well as in felicity.
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A poem,
that rhymes such as 'love' and 'move',
can't help but poke fun at language,
which I rhymed with 'anguish'
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Nibbled succulent leaves
sounds better than they look.

I know what the nibblers are.
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As Covid rolls on,
who are stripping
the shop-shelves
of toilet rolls;
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The sentence and phrase
'This is it.'
begins with a capital
and ends with a dot.
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Stesichorus sang
that the Helen that went to Troy
wasn't real, was a wraith,
was a phantasma.
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I needed to see THIS violet
by THIS flowing stream.
I took a trireme to THIS islet -
I needed to see THIS violet
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Your X had to be pretty individual
back when X was the prevalent sign.

Handwriting Xperts sprang up.
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