Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 22, 2009, 12:00 pm
  dangling at the end of a rope hanging from a helicopter hovering a vast  distance from the ground is the appropriate analogy confidence is a firm grip – belief...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 21, 2009, 12:00 pm
  i wanna be popular she cries i don’t care how i get there i wanna be top of a tree with a star and adulation dripping off of me then lass he sa...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 20, 2009, 12:00 pm
He rolls in the rich red dirt again – purest ecstasy, been quite a while since true rain fell so ‘bathe’ the man will be thinking – ‘shampoo’ Won'...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 19, 2009, 12:00 pm
A fête of decayed verse engages these indigenes of disgrace; there is no sweet meat or bread fresh on their plates but rubric praise that ‘if you succour me...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 18, 2009, 12:00 pm
Allegorical? No way it’s the stone age truth coming out in a rash It’s where you chose to be by run-out-of-gas dead reckoning Plain as t...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 17, 2009, 12:00 pm
I noticed recently that people move away from me like I’m diseased he sadly says At the grocery they’d greet me with a smile and ask ‘how are you today?’ Now they...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 16, 2009, 12:00 pm
I cannot claim to share your view or see a scene the same as you – or where it was and when with who it was a set of fickleness to best your sober sense in ways ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 15, 2009, 12:00 pm
I’ll cede at worst a patch of weed explains the workings of our minds to me – you see a garden there that needs its share of TLC and fair enough it works quite ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 14, 2009, 12:00 pm
LNP shenanigans delight the native crowd again – but geeze, Wilson Tuckey quoted in the same shrewd sentence as His Royal Shyness, the Front Bench Opposition Health ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 13, 2009, 12:00 pm
pictures jumble through a lucid sleep without a patterned chain indistinct ideas play millisecond games inspired by chaos rules I’m lulled into a fool’s belief of ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 12, 2009, 12:00 pm
an answer would stare you in the face if your gaze could rise to lips above those comely breasts the sultry curving hips the lissom buttocks swell it is all’s well in ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 11, 2009, 3:23 pm
In ending the whole notion of permanence presents fresh dilemmas; an ‘if it is there tomorrow it’s probably real’ sense of shaken confidence survives where soli...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 10, 2009, 12:00 pm
Who stole your scented memories pot-pourri’s of your youth with vacant promises – a charlatan a superficial swain with wisdom urging platitudes you should believe...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 9, 2009, 12:00 pm
Yeah I’m onto it you say, no worries; you don’t want people getting ideas maybe you’re basically underdone There’s no way you’re going to admit to failure ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 8, 2009, 12:00 pm
that sense of belonging went West wrapped in cambric with my dreams I know I fit into the Land – it can’t get better than that but there were moments when I saw through ...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 7, 2009, 12:00 pm
Not knowing what to look for weighs scales against finding what I would not likely recognise anyway – feels like certain failure Yet the money paid rests easy in a bank...
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Ivan Carswell posted an article on Poetry From The Orchard - Nov 6, 2009, 12:00 pm
If I stay I will see less of what I imagine most as the face in the mirror grows grey If I go there’s no guarantee I will greet what hopeful thought ...
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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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