Douglas Scotney Poems

In the Olympic year of twenty twelve
Flu took gold in Australia.
With gold on the chest of the flu
Silver was the best we could do-
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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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Pippa went to Wimbledon
Watched from the Royal Box.
The Mirror and Mail reported
How much her outfit cost.
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'What ho? There ain't no bears down here, '
Said Robert Falcon Scott,
'I'll call it Anobearia.'
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An apology, an excuse and a hope and a warning.

On this the land
On which I swat
You steward of the land
On which I squat
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I'd flicked through 'The Naked and the Dead'
But hadn't ever read it.
I saw a Mailer under ROMANCE
That I couldn't credit.
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Out of nothing but a need
From sense unsatisfying
Thought arose
Found its order gratifying.
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