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Lyn's May Post

5/27/2015

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(Poets – this is at attempt, from England, to convey a Queensland garden
by using clothing!  Just for fun.)


Armour

Heavy, muddy, mouldy,

grass clippings rammed in ribbed soles,

those boots are armour.

He’s dressed to keep nature out,

declared war on red bellies, spiders, soldier ants.


No stings, no bites, no sunshine.

Drab trousers billow like windsocks,

whistle as he walks.  He’s anchored them

in wool socks hairy as caterpillars.


Don’t talk to him about caterpillars.

They sent him to hospital once.

Tucked in and buttoned up is his theme,

his cuffs stuffed in leather gauntlets

mottled as cane toads.


On his shirt a beach design.

That’s his joke, his bit of irony.

There’ll be no stripping here.

He may favour tones of moss and decay

but those waves keep rolling in.


He’s turned the collar up.

He’s battled with rays before.

Sunnies clench his skull like a wraparound verandah.

Above it all, a wide brim undulates,

shifts, wants lift off.  No chance.

A chinstrap keeps his focus on war.

 
Lyn Browne   ©   2015

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2015 Poetry Trail poems

5/22/2015

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On Ilkley Road

a road going nowhere
coyly meandering
destination unknown

pocked dapples flicker by
darkness draped verges
forest is screaming

eyes wander ...
mind drifts ...
shadow soldiers falling

on a road going nowhere
shadow soldiers fall

J Bandidt   ©   May, 2015

 

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