Douglas McClarty Poems

No pill can ease the pain
Maybe time will I cannot tell
With us, then in a moment gone
Left with just memories
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I watched the misty moon that night
As I walked along the Fivey Road
Though dark there was a sliver glow
A beam from the heavens to the earth below
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Some of us had under clothes
the poorest of us had none
But then who worried
we all swam naked
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Some of us had under clothes
the poorest of us had none
But then who worried
we all swam naked
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I'm no literary expert
still struggling to spell
Stringing two words
A challenge for me.
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My 'friends' who think they might just know me,
in their passing hours, will they give me a tiny thought.

Did I enlighten just one or more for a single moment,
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Arrived. What will I see today in this maze?
As I turn into 'soap powder row', as I call it

Last week I called it 'domestos lane'
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At the age of eleven I was,
the Home and Colonial boy
I got ten bob a week
And a lovely green bike
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The water's cold grey and bleak
As it ripples around my purple feet
Barefoot I paddle along marble hill beach
I love to hear the seagulls cry and screech
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I killed a Rook that sat high on a tree
I watched it fall unto the forest floor
It lay still no sound it would fly no more
I killed that Rook lying on the forest floor
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