Douglas Scotney Poems

Hit Title Date Added
91.
One, From The Heart

When ground fires
in the form of flowers
the size of candle flames,
returned me to my former art,
...

92.
Stylishus Or Stylee?

Wear and wen
a pome hazn't much
ov a chairns or charns,
a stylish won haz less
...

93.
Respasses

Playing with my head
is a word I found in Robert Herrick (1591-1674) .
The word is 'respasses';
what does it mean and how is it said?
...

94.
Something About Pollen

I saw a bee
go right down in
a fabulous cactus flower.
...

95.
The Intelligent Peach

has a few of its leaves
go yellow well before fall -
while its fruit ripens, in fact.
...

96.
What Should Be,

if he or she isn't that already,
is that the cultivator of a papaya tree,
the leaf of which is a long-fingered hand on a mincy wrist,
should be called a papayatrist.
...

97.
B: Xxxxxi: If A Soul

Sentiment
Sent him back from trance
For a time
That would prove quite short
...

98.
B: Xxxxxxiiii: Baudelaire Would Know

Lovers know,
In remainders of the dead,
In confusion of unnumbered sound,
Solace in the head,
...

99.
The Illusion Of The Rifleman

Up high on a mount,
in the face of all,
parts are small
that loom large
...

100.
B: Xxxxxxxv: Grey

Viler than any of night
are the horrors
of the gloom of GREY daylight,
when you glimpse the legs and hair
...

Close
Error Success