Donald Mcclean
...Ducky, thanks for being here
Landmark man,
Thanks for the connection to my past
They need glass and steal
I need familiar things,
Things that mean and things that last
Old friendships, old rivalries ...
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Categories:
naseberry, friendship, memory, memory,
Form: Free verse
For Donald Mcclean
...I thought of you but did not know how to write
All the things collecting dust inside a heart
Since the walls of boyhood crumbled, and we apart
No longer come slushing through the mud tonight.
I have ...
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Categories:
naseberry, friendship, old, old, seasons,
Form: Verse
I Have Tasted Mangoes
...I have tasted mangoes that cling
Their sweetness to my tongue.
I have seen the white heron's wing
Beating the air like a lung.
I have ate custard apples spiced
With heaven's honey. And cooler th...
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Categories:
naseberry, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Delicate (Ek, a Casuality of Flankers)
...Surefooted, sure fisted,razor tough
If I should fight that war again
I would want one for the going rough
Like yourself,
Fair and fractured
When the friendship slough
No claim to be a paragon ...
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Categories:
naseberry, allegory, people, placeslife,
Form: Free verse
Don, Tell Me Again
...Don, tell me again
How to get from Homehill to Ironshore
How to wring sugarcane in hot sunshine
And get new rum.
Don, tell me again
How to swim across the canal,
With hook and line and clothes...
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Categories:
naseberry, faith, friendship, nostalgiame, me,
Form: Free verse
The Gift
...You have a gift, a shining castle of words
Somebody told me, and I was naked in the night
How did you get this gift, this weave of tongue in flight
I am jolted again, to the time I was thirteen
H...
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Categories:
naseberry, imagination, mystery, on writing
Form: Free verse