Ivan Donn Carswell
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Ivan Donn Carswell Biography
...If I said I wrote poetry for a reason I’d have to defend my reasoning every day. So I don’t. I write for fun – and if it isn’t fun it’s better than being bored or feeling useless. I admit to feeling bored and useless occasionally.
But there is more to Poetry than one man’s opinion of it.
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There are many views – no less especially here. ...
Ivan Donn Carswell Poems
you caught me in-between
those things I didn’t start
and the few that
simply got away
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keeping a day ahead when
space occupied by those
preceding still reeks of
waste is deemed vagrancy
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Yesterday’s dust storm dashed
unrealistic pretension about
Nature’s propriety – there’s
nothing better expressed than
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a way to piss
yourself off thoroughly
and guarantee morbidity
is by trying to please
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Bob’s view was we couldn’t run
away, rain didn’t demand unilateral
surrender; we were men-at-arms
used at least to deprivation and
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Ivan Donn Carswell Comments
Ummmm, are you the one who commented on each n every poem of mine on www.ham-zay.blogspot.ca ? If yes, then a huge thank you! It's an honour to have my poems read by you! Ur amazing!
Easily one of the finest poets on this site, Ivan has taught me many things about structure, design and flow. I'm always extremely impressed when I read his work, and recommend his poetry as ESENTIAL reading to anyone who appreciates true talent.
I have found a new teacher... sure I might wag some days... but be it pet or trouble... when I turn up to class 'I put my hand up....... [careful too many law suits appearing around school discipline] and rediscover....
I have only just discovered Ivan's poetry and I love it.
Tara got here first and I have to agree with everything she has to say. This guy is a Poem Hunter stalwart of the first order. Clear thinking and highly intelligent, teasing, funny, provocative, honest, compassionate and passionate where it counts, and a damned fine poet to boot! ! The only problem is that the stuff just pours out of him and it's murder trying to keep up! jim
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10/25/2021 5:54:10 AM # 1.0.0.738
An absolute rarity among poets - a gem. Expressive, erudite, emotive (often with a quasi-objective slant) . Ivan should be compulsory reading. Well... he is, for some of us! t x