Short Antipodes Poems

Tingling of tongue sent Euripides
Questing a tastier kind of cheese.
"I found cheddar magical,"
Said this poet tragical,
"Sailing the southern antipodes.”...

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Is the truth in the east?
or is it in the west?
Could it be in the north?
or the south?
The truth is neither sky nor sea,
neither you nor me
The truth is at the antipodes....

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To the casual eye,
autumn gives no cue 
in the Australian bush.
No last choke of color 
to see off a season,
trees here keep 
their clothes on.

Change is subtle, 
leaves are shed all year 
in a sprinkle of drab.  
Here though, trees
can suddenly drop 
a half ton limb
on a dead calm day
when there's not
a breath of wind.
...

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Side stepping love's starfish sun bathing about, time's shores....
While amoeboid parasites these sponges in resilient, take up residence
Atop her capital hill; residuum's resonant evil kismet's, true, liverwort lobbyist 
Waterspout gargoyles autism's algae tortuous angleworms this, immoral's realities ?
Shuttered truths antipodes their view; his shad's tenement tete-a-tete's, voodoo virtuosity....

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