Origin Myth: Wavesound Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

Origin Myth: Wavesound



Accessing only via excess
lovers only of the nicest rockmelons,
realise their joy must be shared,
for there are more of those lovers
than there are rockmelons to go around;
lovers made all the more ardent
in the wait for the seasonal fruit
and in the in-season scarcity
of nicest-ness.

Lovers die to the niceness of melons
whose waves of cry after cry after cry...
beat the shore of the sky.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
For my high school English teacher, Mary Duggan who dared us to use 'nice' and pass.
Sidetracked while reading Baudelaire's 'Lesbos'.

'rockmelon', French for 'canteloupe'.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Bull Hawking 25 April 2013

Nice poem.....Douglas....I have to comment on your cantelope comment.....I made up a joke once where I asked what fruit always has to have a church wedding......tadum......the can't elope.....ok enough with the tomatoes See ya

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Douglas Scotney

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Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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