Douglas Scotney Poems

We knew not on Aonian mount
The outskirts of pollution,
Needed not then, I know need now,
A negative solution.
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In company of quite different take
The poet went out dawdling
Down by Grasmere Lake.
Dead calm the lake, no wind.
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When 'not much left exists in right'
meets 'little right in left',
all weft no warp,
all warp no weft,
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Thought order
Not to be denied,
In bed
You turn aside,
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By a beech-shaded pool
of secluded immovable calm,
seduced by Nature nicely balanced,
sure someone who settled near
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You ask me why
I like the guy
Whose faith it is
That every flower
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The Theory of Non-Exclusivity states that:
Always right exists in left
And likewise left in right.
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I had a recent re-encounter with 'The Nightingale'.
Coleridge considered calling it 'A Father's Tale'.
It was one of those still, dark, quiet, balmy nights.
Three thoughtful friends sat on a mossy bridge near Nether Stowy,
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The lord he's found of no matter.
To the lord he don't mean two hoots.
With both out of time together,
They'll have more in common than ever;
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