There he stands, the pristine scaled skin glowing in the sun, the flat mouth opening and closing, rows and rows of teeth, molar cufflinks, and a killer smile while he does his daily work. More at https://jddehartfeaturepoems.blogspot.com.
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The day I realised that I’m just like everyone else. Clarity. I spent all my time thinking that I was different, unusual. [Apparently] I thought differently to everyone else. [I] Wanted, needed different things. Craved isolation. Solitude. Peace. Contentment. Simplicity overall. Fought the pre-programmed urges [resistance]. Rose above it all. Years of fighting. Fighting emotion….
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Bruce Beaver (1928-2004) has been called one of Australia’s “least known great poets” by Dorothy Porter and a “poet’s poet” by Timothy Schapcott. The two epithets reference the same quality: that of a poet who was underappreciated by the wider reading public but whose importance to contemporary Australian poetry has never been questioned by those…
In olden days, he waited for the bravest. But they stopped coming. They were too distracted with their mobile devices, their games, and hardly went outside anymore. Soon, he declared, it was time to stop waiting, for he had not been killed and respawned in decades. So, the fearsome one strode from his sanctum. He…
