Ivan Donn Carswell Poems

keeping a day ahead when
space occupied by those
preceding still reeks of
waste is deemed vagrancy
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you caught me in-between
those things I didn’t start
and the few that
simply got away
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the simple account
– love ran out
no-longer sustained by
medieval bracelets charmed
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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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even sacred space has room that's
not invasion proof - there's liberal
confirmation raids incurring greater
anguish now occur most every day;
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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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Who stole your scented memories
pot-pourri’s of your youth with
vacant promises – a charlatan
a superficial swain with wisdom
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might have been a consequence of
three strong coffees or the splendid
isolation but woe is me, did I forget
which was our National Day?
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letting moments like this slip
regales a dream’s allure
insubstantial drifts of form are
sure as melody to inner ear
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