Douglas Scotney Poems

Trumpets blaring
Biden rising
Trumpets muted
Biden taking over
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Around,
a teacher spread,
that he had once
a child
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Mars' closeness to Earth
every two and a quarter years
seems a bit too short
to make of its waxing proximity
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Viewed to the west from the top of Mt Lofty
(about 10 km east of the CBD and 20 from the sea) ,
long, thin, flat Adelaide is 'Suburbia'
with 2 'islands' - Airport and CBD.
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In a poem, a! ! (a 'loudest')
and a! (a 'louder')
can appear after a word
in any part of a sentence.
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'So, ' I thought,
after reading 'Beverages'
by Kumarmarni Mahakul,
'if aam panna drink made with raw mangoes
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My guesses are:

that 'maid' came from the French for 'help me';
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Her English talk, Inge defends:
'How you say 'separate' depends;
'confederate' and 'degenerate' too.
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I invoke a great poem* by Thomas Hardy
and Phoenician goddess of Love, Astarte.

As the quiz show ages
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As the French call The Channel
La Manche, The Sleeve,
I wonder if they call a sleeve,
a channel -
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