Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 5, 2009, 12:00 pm
Which bit don’t you understand – disappointment or loss? I used to say that’s me the dull bloke next to the beaut Sheila and they knew who I was b...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 4, 2009, 12:00 pm
Anyone who says being a hermit is great didn’t sit with me and me mate last night watching the Eels slip it to the Dogs If one needs company for some things NRL semis a...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 3, 2009, 12:00 pm
If I am to return to this life it won't be as a brown snake I killed this afternoon or mosquito that died violently this morning  no chance I’d make amends for their...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 2, 2009, 12:00 pm
Should I know your feelings as you do and if I did would it intrude in places where I wasn’t meant to be? A notion we are boldly free disposing bounds too intimate ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 1, 2009, 12:00 pm
Distancing yourself is brave it takes more than a Devil’s chance to face scars of burdened conscience without bearing similar marks A bizarre maxim of read-between-the-...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 31, 2009, 1:00 pm
Yesterday’s dust storm dashed unrealistic pretension about Nature’s propriety – there’s nothing better expressed than severely reduced visibility Seeing just 300...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 30, 2009, 1:00 pm
The things that hatch through narrow cracks are not the enemy we must believe; to see them in their plenitude as opportunists who have little choice, soloists out flying all alone ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 29, 2009, 1:00 pm
8 am, been up since 6 busy cleaning inboxes, checked the top tank bore water return all’s well in a World of searing wind-raised fire danger So far anyway, yet to make...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 28, 2009, 1:00 pm
We’re simpatico Benson and me his views of our new life mesh sweetly though I see in him a greater change; he used to be a canine asshole with wannabe pretensions a...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 27, 2009, 1:00 pm
What is the sign beside the road that makes the line dividing states of love as clear as sigils blessed in your taxonomy? I wonder what it is that bleeds the tease of care into ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 26, 2009, 1:00 pm
Hang in there the icon screams ignore the broken fingernail egg cracked in your pocket focus on fervid esoterica...! Who the Hell are you, it complains – which fing...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 25, 2009, 1:00 pm
the thing is I knew why I stayed it made more sense than simply giving in besides there’s nowhere else I’d rather be alone with memories oh, for sure ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 24, 2009, 1:00 pm
survival questions candour in what once you held as dear – dumbed mementos jousting displaced souvenirs of time and space silent smiling faces snapped too lo...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 23, 2009, 1:00 pm
today’s inane debate rages whether a 16 year old sailor is old enough to be youngest (palpably female) solo Around-The-World circumnavigator at best a few commentators play o...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 22, 2009, 1:00 pm
tell me what is worse making calls you know won't work or people who’ll effuse happiness; yes, I do it occasionally – especially when depressed but the soul I ne...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 21, 2009, 1:00 pm
wine stains cabernet merlot I guess on the desk where dust accumulates and I write the one an excess the other a Sapphic expression seminally explained in g...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 20, 2009, 1:00 pm
the life that never went away remains in silent piles of clothes that stay awaiting gentle hands to put them where they’re meant to be; I see a patent rite of change ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 19, 2009, 1:00 pm
it is as good as your word which wasn’t good anyway a cut-rate ticket to nowhere you claim sentience and a stake in charity – a tall ask for a turd whose insight ends...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 18, 2009, 1:00 pm
Bloodied Sunday in the torpid atmosphere of miasmic rural rectitude drinking ice-cold beer the way men do from the bottle shooting the breeze profoundly withou...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 17, 2009, 1:00 pm
If there is anything more arcane than the electrical workings of a bore-pump set to time-switch automatic I’d like to experience it; the beautiful simplicity of this irasc...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 16, 2009, 1:00 pm
pony clubbers out in force that afternoon – two mothers three girls and a guy prepared horses talking of whom was seeing whom; although unsaid the cool word was she...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 16, 2009, 1:00 am
don’t get me wrong I do care where you live what I don’t care for is what you made it into what is a ‘Northsider’ for God’s sake and why do you consider ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 14, 2009, 1:00 pm
wishing it were different may restrain the feelings of regret but the truth is – it isn’t... Sunday’s Father’s Day whichever way you want to care, where being one...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 13, 2009, 1:00 pm
Watching you die old friend is the hardest bit you’re suffering – it is hidden in your eyes though you will not admit the light grows dim Darker tendrils slow...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 12, 2009, 1:00 pm
my old dog is dying he won't look at me in a way that say’s don’t worry this is just a slight aberration asserts that no-fuss personality I always relied on ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 11, 2009, 1:00 pm
long, dissociate conversations about meaning vacuums the space we associate in me and I combine passively in a perspective of “we” whereas “you...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 10, 2009, 1:00 pm
isn’t scenes of beastly screaming voices drown a stasis bleeding forcing choices vilely reeking where I cling to my own debris caught within I hear the chaos chorused i...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 9, 2009, 1:00 pm
He clings to substance of his dreams, those sure things he’s always been aware of the tried and true assure him of surcease; scent of this duvet yields better ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 8, 2009, 1:00 pm
the one and one of two small disasters sums greater than arithmetic reckoning there is no wise accord explaining why the mind begins such paltry games there will be more to com...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 7, 2009, 1:00 pm
I guess we ran out of talk – the who’s that and what does it mean stuff we used to survive on  and the unrequited repartee which burdens silence still as tacitly cy...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 6, 2009, 1:00 pm
The things I’ve yet to do will come to trouble me before this day’s at end whether premonitions of good intent or lax derelictions like a guilt-ridden 3:30 am jaunt to s...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 5, 2009, 1:00 pm
dealing with a near-empty bottle of gin makes death of this predator phrase of the day an aberration justified as a fine meal for its prey moreso than an explanation ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 4, 2009, 1:00 pm
Nothing will placate the so-called failure of that night – the week before all pomp and circumstance to take its due; you lay in lacy white expectantly your eyes aglow to ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 3, 2009, 1:00 pm
  We’re simpatico Benson and me his views of our new life mesh sweetly though I see in him a greater change; he used to be a canine asshole with wannabe preten...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 2, 2009, 1:00 pm
This is more than punishment there’s no relief, bones bared will shatter easy echoed clean purgatory’s superior, at least a chance to expiate and win a place in H...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Oct 1, 2009, 1:00 pm
You know the taste won’t do unless bona fide – no less and no compromise so ten cardamom pods please not seeds get it thru your head two fine cockerels raised...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Sep 30, 2009, 1:00 pm
the weight wearing me as a campaign ribbon offers no compensation easily recognised I am too much of a commodity a recycled throwaway line I’m not hanging out with ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Sep 29, 2009, 1:00 pm
A sign of the times you’d say or intelligence applied with novelty – to you it makes two toasted sandwiches agreeably but to me it is a temperature controlled ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Sep 28, 2009, 1:00 pm
it isn’t the way I’d imagined – if I had the imagination – yet I am examining a receipt from shopping with painful curiosity wondering whether I actually purc...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Sep 27, 2009, 1:00 pm
I wouldn’t rate the gaucherie any less than 10 – and well earned at that; last time he delivered hatchling chickens they turned out to be 100% dinkum ‘males’,...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Sep 26, 2009, 1:00 pm
It doesn’t go away – no shelter from the emptiness; a pure and empty space invades what used to be A presence that was here remains in truth, evades the cleaning broo...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Sep 25, 2009, 1:00 pm
too late to change the face of it in moments left agape to chance; the shape of it has changed in trance-like penury outstayed her voice is thinly guised in crie...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Sep 24, 2009, 1:00 pm
I see the cherub’s grace in this expression strained with angst I know it less than as it seems she’s reined by circumstance in ways unveiled by able chance that prey...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Sep 23, 2009, 1:00 pm
Ant-bites leave no tame illusions it’s free-for-all – you better believe they’re equipped to do you harm Picking limes doesn’t seem hazardous until stubborn pain ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Sep 22, 2009, 1:00 pm
Disappointed almost covers it – sort of put out and a wee bit peeved after twice leafing thru’ The Range News trying to find the weekly crossword Last week’s solut...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Sep 21, 2009, 1:00 pm
If I don’t write something good tonight I will sleep without the comforting star of deep believers, if I sleep at all, and this light which ignites my enormous poetic conc...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Sep 20, 2009, 1:00 pm
Tales in the beginning didn’t begin in the telling – they would have started no doubt, but not without a concrete bearing, a causal opening and a beckoning ending (at le...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Sep 19, 2009, 1:00 pm
his vision goes beyond death’s immediacy thirty eggs are to hatch three weeks hence – a process as inexorable as cellular division and there can be no more...
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