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Mcalpine
Mcalpine Poems - Poems about Mcalpine
Achtung, Mes Amis
...ACHTUNG, MES AMIS The islands resolutely isolated from the shore had atmosphere : they were redolent of an insolence which betokened ‘Do come and get me, if you damn well dare.’ Its minor mou......
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Alan Douglas
Categories:
mcalpine,
funny, political,
Form:
I do not know?
The Day In a Life
...THE DAY IN A LIFE Please, lowly and so very hairy worm, believe ! You must have faith, your luck will turn; your somewhat desperate soon-to-be flutter will cause provision - of bread and butt......
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Alan Douglas
Categories:
mcalpine,
funny, happiness, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Couplet
Goose Bumps
...GOOSE BUMPS http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j231/the...ean/dtgeese.jpg I'd thought I found eternal rest cold hands folded, still, on my chest but I hear echoes from the past the trumpet's ......
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Alan Douglas
Categories:
mcalpine,
animals, death, funny, history,
Form:
Couplet
Remembrance
...REMEMBRANCE You poppies marched into my world in 1946, I was then aged about four. A morning leap from well-warmed bed to count : today, how many more ? Something so eternally ephemeral grabbing my......
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Alan Douglas
Categories:
mcalpine,
war, morning,
Form:
I do not know?
Another Psychiatric Success - Oakland
...ANOTHER PSYCHIATRIC SUCCESS Man feels guilty, thus Man feels bad : conscience halts “pleasures” to be had. Psychs seek cure - Man must not feel bad, with drugs remove what make him sad. Good, lucky......
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Alan Douglas
Categories:
mcalpine,
death, philosophy, political, drug,
Form:
I do not know?
Inconvenience
...INCONVENIENCE Home : Take one cube of gravy essence, stir it fretfully, if I still dare, into boiling, or at least hot-ish water; such senior movements made with care Care Home ......
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Alan Douglas
Categories:
mcalpine,
caregiving, funny, philosophy, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Seniors Olympics
...SENIORS OLYMPICS Images of fearsomely fit youth everywhere, healthy people, all bronzed, featured by the second, on screens and public spaces : fit and flash, but always young, Olympians. I prote......
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Alan Douglas
Categories:
mcalpine,
funny, sports,
Form:
Free verse
Best-Kept Secret
...I know - I’m supposed to keep this secret easy, by month one nothing’s visible yet in month two damn sickness greets morn and I’m wishing I’d never been born by end of third deep serenity’s applied......
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Alan Douglas
Categories:
mcalpine,
life, mother, world,
Form:
Couplet
The Wiliest Bird
...THE WILIEST BIRD My hero is a wily bird, so gutsy, he's thought quite absurd, for when he's down and almost out, he's up and fit for six more bouts. He'll be blown up, he'll be blown down, whatever......
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Alan Douglas
Categories:
mcalpine,
inspirational,
Form:
Couplet
About Time Too
...ABOUT TIME TOO Create a universe with space, and stars and suns, then planets. Add some life and watch it grow; almost nothing to almost something. Implant a need to change, evolve, until finally o......
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Alan Douglas
Categories:
mcalpine,
funny, holiday, philosophy, time,
Form:
Blank verse