END TIMES : ONE
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[Poet’s Note : This poem arose out of a play on quote in Bible by Christ : “I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world…This is ho...
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Categories:
mellon, allegory, body, change, deep,
Form: Free verse
A Pirate's Redemption
...Fishers fish and merchants drift
But pirates lurk and seek to sift
They show their wealth with coins they spit
While honest men give honest gifts
A fletcher rises with the day
His arrows ...
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Categories:
mellon, betrayal, change, corruption, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Melancholy Mood
...My collie dog,
a mellon she has
seen, there...
her feeling very
Jolly...
my collie ate
that mellon,
was filled with...
melancholy,
somehow...
Now my collie in her
grave, for ...
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Categories:
mellon, pets, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Dougal Cameron
...Dougal Cameron 1900s
by Don Johnson
Brisbane..Australia.
Old Dougal Cameron was the man,
the cruel red desert country crossed.
Drove cattle cross the trackless plains,
out where Burke and ...
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Categories:
mellon, adventurechildren, old, lost, water,
Form: Rhyme
Magical Snow
...Mellon balls, white and soft
Powder dropped from aloft
Cannon balled by little scamps
By such childish winter land camps
Stacked up high in twos and threes
Thin brown arms pulled from trees
T...
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Categories:
mellon, childhood, imagination, life, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Fire
...The fire
burn the furn
the forest is on fire
light eyes
sparkle in cloven escarpment
drizzle the muzzle around the bear
h’s so aware
tear the trees
in the east
feast
the birds screeching ...
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Categories:
mellon, nature, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I'M Not Riding Sir
...While I was drinking in the Vic'
Out Goondiwindi way,
This burnt out ringer on his horse
Reined in and said, "G’day!"
We'd all been playing 301,
So asked could he join in.
"Sure thing ...
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Categories:
mellon, funny, old, horse, old,
Form: Narrative