Douglas Scotney Poems

A fairy is a stretched avatar
tricked up to look tall on stage
by dwarf sets and fantastic architecture,
in this case, low-clipped bushes
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For their loyalty, economy
and sensitivity to rocks coming their way,
a wise one in raggy togs
trains rats as dogs
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Before K.M.
told me via his eponymous poem
of the wine fly ghunghuti,
of Hindi words beginning 'gh',
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Finely tuned
He topped his heights
With extra draughts of nectar.
He could see humour and sorrow in all.
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Dedicated to poetry
I asked if she would steer me
Rather than row myself.
'Not a lot of demand, ' I said.
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Whatever we are the soul of
That we can never see.
Whatever we of the soul are
Soul can't see equally.
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Wouldn't you know it:
just after the Third,
when I said to a poet-critic-cricket chum
that the 2017 India-Australia four Test series
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To ease
the depression
in the growing number
of brains caring
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Because they speak in a different tongue,
neighbours are saying in it,
in their front yards,
'We love Australia
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A figurehead at
Each line's prow seems fine without
A dot at each aft;
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