Douglas Scotney Poems

The Northern Territory's
Earnt qualities of trope
Have made me qualify the name
To Northern Terratrope.
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I wondered lonely in my bed
What odour held domain,
Brought my wrist up to my nose....
....Parfum de Guerlain.
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The growing pace of obsolescence
That exists in the world of machines
Has seen me seeking refuge in
Less evanescent means
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Unable to do
he became able to do,
unable to do again,
able to do again
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Life-fearing man selects material-wise,
Rejects or knows not wisdom-
Ever more self and envious eyes
Are accompanying compensation.
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William's son, named Hamnet,
died in 1596,
aged just eleven and a half
when Will was thirty two.
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..........................a red-capped
black-faced
black-shirted
red-pantsed
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Femmes sont Seine,
Universite,
Paris, Place,
Cathedral,
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Let's pretend it's not
nearly all over,
love like we've loved before.
Love will not then
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Expectation, aiming high
On field no friend of dreams,
Soon told to lower sights,
Said, 'No! I will be stronger,
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