doug bentley Poems

Consumed in love the shaft of desire
and lust for all takes charge of heart,
as love's dart, Raphael's arrow of fire
golden tip dips, silver in soul to part
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this isn't about
how your head turns muddy red

when you lean against the wall
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when the Ark Of The Covenant kicks into action
it's a contraption

generating
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i remember my life as a soldier
in the hills of sumer,

how i died
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in one corner of ring
stood deng xiaoping; *

dwarf of man,
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our culture?
snow.

a canadian?
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spring is pure potential. there's no
calculating how tall a tree will be,
how far its branches will stretch, how
each fork will unfold, how many
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i thought i caught
a snapshot of the rabbit

in the moon.
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like aurobindo* i fly
free from all baited nets

to shining city so bright
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a gray metal tanker berths on grey metal sea
like a new-born cocooned on mother's bosom.
transporting tons of vital oil, it has come
from the north, and winter, east and night,
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