Lost Ground
...Somewhere in the general melee
we lost our imaginary horses,
their ghostly neighing
added pathos to this momentous moment.
It was decided, we boys, and one sis...
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Categories:
dozers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Custer Must Die
...Somewhere in the general melee
we lost our imaginary horses,
their ghostly neighing
adds pathos to this momentous moment.
It was decided, we boys, and one sist...
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Categories:
dozers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Witching Hour Minstrel Part Two
...Whatever happened to the twelve o ‘clock rambler,
nocturnal venturesome brushstroke sort,
they face whirlwind snowfall, freezing ice,
while others brazenly squirm,
not for stoic diarist this thre...
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Categories:
dozers, character, city, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Witching Hour Minstrel
...Whatever happened to the twelve o ‘clock rambler,
nocturnal venturesome brushstroke sort,
they paint sound and city pastel,
never at a loss for inspiration,
weather neither bar nor barrier,
in ...
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Categories:
dozers, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Free verse
In the Lord Line Building
...There's a feeling of sadness
Mixed with a wistful awe
As we pick our careful way
Across a rubble strewn floor.
An eerie sort of half light,
As though hiding from the day,
Hiding our history unt...
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Categories:
dozers, change, fishing, memory, remember,
Form: Rhyme
The Trees of D'abadie
...
Where sets the sun again
far from the din of Port of Spain
shadows fall on the plain.
And on that plain over I strode
when the wind its trees winnowed
up the old Eastern Main Road
...
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Categories:
dozers, home,
Form: Rhyme
A Toddler In the Well
...Just like his custom, he sparks to frolic in the encompassing.
But when he tumbled to get back home, the frenzy was beginning.
Ryan 5 fell under a 30 meter well, a ton like Joseph.
I...
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Categories:
dozers, analogy, anxiety, bereavement, child,
Form: Couplet
Letsby Avenue
...The leaves rustle still in Letsby Avenue
Though how they do, no-one I know ever knew
Nobody crosses it, no-one walks through
And nobody lives there and never will do
Curtains hang limp for the...
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Categories:
dozers, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Lake Lady Louise
...The night is brimming with lake water fully moon-laden.
Sparkles and dashes of diamonds clutter her surface.
I am delighted at the prettiness of the outlying forest.
Surrounded by beauty that enha...
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Categories:
dozers, nature, water,
Form: Imagism
Clear Felling
...I can hear the dozers in the distance,
droning across another mountain top.
Someone needs one hundred ton of wood-chips,
so dozer droning never seems to stop.
I can hear the chainsaw in the dis...
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Categories:
dozers, abuse, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Dreamer
...A dreamer from nowhere
Waiting to go somewhere
Dreams are left bare
Because in my heart is fear
Always pleading for so many reasons
Risers rising, sitters sitting, dozers dozing
Stuck in my own...
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Categories:
dozers, faith,
Form: Blank verse
Institutional Jargon
...Institutional Jargon
Strait lined jacket,
A wheelchair line-up peruses the pasty walls
In synchronized fashion
Secured by schedule
Where the pristine uniform
Clicks heels and strides with p...
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Categories:
dozers, repetition,
Form: Blank verse
The Shopping Cart Injustice
...This poem was inspired by the interviews by Earl K. Pollon and S. S. Matheson conducted with native Sekanni peoples who were negatively effected by the flooding of their communal homelands by the bui...
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Categories:
dozers, environment, history,
Form: Free verse
We Shall Not Be Moved
..." We Shall Not Be Moved ... "
( Ezek. 3: 7, 8, 9 / Heb. 10: 32 - 39 )
Through All Infirmities
Through All Adversities
Through All Emergencies
& Empty Lies of Enemies ...
Through Great...
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Categories:
dozers, allegory, christian, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
My Neighbourhood
...The road to my backyard is long and straight
Evergreen trees abound and provide welcome shade
Home to myriad birds, butterflies and the bees
Last summer their branches were sawn off, without notice
T...
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Categories:
dozers, loss, nature, memory, memory,
Form: Rhyme
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