Douglas Scotney Poems

My television wouldn't work.
I went and bought Big Other.
I watched the triumph of The Crows,
In splendid, vivid colour.
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2012

Fil's birthday being early May
She threw an Easter party.
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By the time Titania is up to 'wonted liveries'
in her first long speech in 'Dream',
you could still be 14 lines back
translating 'undistinguishable quaint mazes
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When 'not much left exists in right'
meets 'little right in left',
all weft no warp,
all warp no weft,
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Thought order
Not to be denied,
In bed
You turn aside,
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By a beech-shaded pool
of secluded immovable calm,
seduced by Nature nicely balanced,
sure someone who settled near
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You ask me why
I like the guy
Whose faith it is
That every flower
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The Theory of Non-Exclusivity states that:
Always right exists in left
And likewise left in right.
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I had a recent re-encounter with 'The Nightingale'.
Coleridge considered calling it 'A Father's Tale'.
It was one of those still, dark, quiet, balmy nights.
Three thoughtful friends sat on a mossy bridge near Nether Stowy,
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