Best Austin Poems

ANIMAL COURT

I relate this story from my room in the Quiet Vale Giggling Academy

A reader might find my story hard to believe
BUT!
At one time in my life –
As a matter of fact quite recently –
I had just finished Dr. Doolittle’s great study
‘Talk to the Animals”
And...

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I live alone in this broken down house 
My dreams once lived here but they have faded
Like the paint on the west side of the house
To many years facing the music
I kept to myself and stayed in the shadows
The tears don’t twinkle in the dark
You...

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Always hungry, Loves sweets
Understanding
Smiles so sweet
Tough as nails
Intelligent boy of God
Nice great Nephew...

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POSEIDON

Sleep, Lord Poseidon,
Deep, everlasting sleep,
While sailors watch with bated breath.

Old planking creaks –
The pitiable splintering sound –
Old planking creaks.

Old sailor,
Splintery-kneed old sailor,
Keeps his watch,

With ever a thought of life’s futility,
Down deep,
Where dolphins stay.

But Lord Poseidon never sleeps,
And dolphins play….and play.



HERMES

Young wears the winged sandals,
 ...

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Ibycus was on his way to a music festival when he was set upon by robbers. While dying a wave of cranes flew over. Ibycus implored the cranes to avenge him. The robbers, with their spoils attended the music festival. There were thousands in attendance....

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At last,I'm in the place I envisioned to be
Unending happiness I hope to forever feel
Soon,the wounds of the past will heal
Time truly flies fast
I am so happy to have found happiness at last
Now my heart,body and soul rejoices!

Ecstasy and joy,i now enjoy
Synergy and faith,i now...

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David Austin
THE SIBYL

ASTARTE’S BIRTH

Aphrodite-wed on summer’s noon I lay me long
     reflecting
And glad my eye the sky as hillcrest partner
     shares this view;
Fond Cytherea seems at nature with a point
     In thought-fixed time;
All...

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So absorbed I become,  I must hold my breath
While reading of love's unrequited quest
A tissue in hand wipes a tear from my eye
Enthralled with such bliss, I joyfully cry!

Cover to cover, each novel tells the same
Stories of restraint, where respect still had a name
To...

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PHRASIS V1
How different the voice,the tone
this tendency,sceptical despondency
only too plain.Wild hopes,extravagant
impatience,decided preference made
manifest,turns aside from the world
and thinks pity,pathos and pious
resignation.Privileged invalids,such
moping minstrels,utterly unhappy
‘cradle to grave’ see only their superior 
sighs.A wave of disillusion,of doubt,
misgiving in abstract wisdom permeat
every utterance and infiltrates every stratum 
of...

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PAL

Pal was all waggles and wiggles    loved to wrestle
He could jump his backyard fence so easily
To play with the children who loved him

Perhaps the love given    on both sides that summer    was enough

Perhaps I could forgive...

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It wasn't so bad this morning
But I arrived an hour early
If I'd left later—
     even a few minutes?
Only the clock will tell
After all
     It's only my first time...

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PHRASIS 11
Imagination not mere fancy
transfigure the real,actual
and ideal with lyric of two
idyllic,melodious sweet and
sonorous.Mental indolence
clouded,enshrouded in obscurity
careless,even slovenly on the
sliding scale of inspiration in
musical verbiage.Perception,
vague at first becomes sentiment
,more definite,as thought or
reflection hazy in its inception
as we perceive and feel and
think within the boundaries of
personal...

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She was headed off to college at 18 years old,
News of the crash leaked out, and the mood turned cold.
She was the best person you could ever know,
When she danced with her team she put on a show.
Recently in Ohio, I found this rock,
With its...

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Round 1: New York won!
By Brett Somers
Written 10-13-2018

Like a ghost in the shadows
New York
People and places and vaporware faces
New York
Experience of magnitude
To have everything in the world
Yet what at all?
Transient position
Always moving 
New York
Cool spots, cool spaces
Beautiful faces 
New York
Astounding architecture
Money and merchandise
A workers paradise
New...

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