Douglas Scotney Poems

At the beach
at the bottom
of a very long hill,
Carrickalinga, not Myponga,
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Having stolen all the goods and gone,
The English are back in Ireland
Seeking the good of man
In folksong of the past.
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According to Keats
Thought order best expressed
Is clothed in dramatic form,
Next best in rhyme and song,
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You who are going to Venus:
There is a third man who has waited
for thirty one years.
Waiting is meditating.
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The manager tells why
He breathes out ashes,
Smelly gases,
Solidifies the sky
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Only thoughtless beauty
Could produce the horrid things
That make the dying worse.
You think such beauty's too perverse
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I hadn't the time
To be able to rest
As I sought both real and illusion.
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We can say our souls merge
After separate existences,
Existences
Which may or may not
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In the heavy,
Comical way
You rock and roll,
I see where you come from,
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However justified my contempt might be,
The critics were contemptuous of me.

With honorable intent,
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