B: V: The Albatross Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

B: V: The Albatross

Rating: 5.0


Whatever else it may be doing
Spirit orders order
To alter its arrangements.
Order tires slowly
Sensing no way out
Or, knowing no sense in it all,
Grows a grand ambition
To do without itself,
Leave spirit free to get on with
Whatever else it's doing.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Liz asks me, 'Are you an atheist? ' while I am reading Baudelaire's 'The Albatross'.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Danny Draper 24 August 2012

Albatross asks 'What is your human preoccupation with unreality'.

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Ramesh Rai 24 August 2012

A GRAND POEM WITH FULL SPIRIT. LAST LINE IS EXCLUSIVELY COMPOSED - LEAVE SPIRIT...... MAGNIFICENT WRITE.

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Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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