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Feb 8, 2012, 1:00 pm
Playing half the fool
engages manic energies
quite easily displaced by
throwing shells away;
Like in-concert solitude
wears half of a sullied
ass’s head outplaying
any grand entrance
No accessory buys
coherence if sanctioned
veils of san... Comment - Like
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Feb 7, 2012, 1:00 pm
they are not words with less
meaning – though hidden,
perhaps context-conspired,
in what you know meant we
didn’t have to guess right
or press inspired keys
yet somewhere at back of
it is affirmation you had it
exact in a gently warm, not ... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2012, 1:00 pm
conceded and moved on you say
but not too sanctimoniously
the truth is less forgiving
if it is past tense it is rooted
in the same bedding mix that
raised enduring legends
that things changed is fair and
reasonable – optimistically they
weren’t part... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2012, 1:00 pm
Giving up on what is left in fact is
perilous – signs do not connect the
path from nowhere back to here
Senses less coherent are dismayed
into despondency as assents of all
pallid claims there is no other way
Defence of whipping-boy anomalies
for truancy def... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2012, 1:00 pm
sounds a bit corny
but having been through it
it isn’t actually that much fun
like coming of age when you’re
a teen; yeah, I know 21 is the
REAL age – but WE did it at 18
and let me say being three years
ahead of the rat race didn’t mean much
wh... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2012, 1:00 pm
not an ordinary drunk
no fearless fowl regarding what
is best in modern poetry
but I digress; the chance
you even saw this vogue of views
as happenstance you’ll have to wake
to see – and it won’t mean a morning’s
dissonance of undescribed and leery... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2012, 1:00 pm
Fickle fates were playing games
with avarice the prize; one only
had to rise for bait they dangled
sweet as candy innuendo pasted
dreams – with diligence I tried to
visualise what it implied, a solid-
wall embrasure plan with lavish
views of the outs... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 1:00 pm
Takes less time to scheme ingenious
diversions than actually achieve things –
no need for understanding motivations
of what is effectively second-nature
Creative evasion deems a sure fire way
to stave off boredom; maintains sanity
you... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 1:00 pm
Bloody Hollywood, don’t fall for the
themes – watch the damn characters;
as if it explains anything! But we see
what we’re meant to believe, miasmic
hodge podge, tosspots of rehearsed
innuendo, the meaning of trite – now
there’s a thing, fancy under... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 12:05 am
hardly makes the grade
exchanging wasted words
condemned to gaudy dangling,
‘tis better left unsaid than
crudely wrung awry
although adept again
conjecture is connived by
due concerns; I care, I really
do – you see it clearly
in my eyes
... Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2012, 1:00 pm
For want of a shoe was
the dream near lost, for want
of a clean pair of heels we’ve
cost ourselves whatever
credit was amiably lodged
in an embassy of 40 years
there’s no credible excuse
less lack of diligence for
a debacle where PM &
Le... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 1:00 pm
Though I may have laughed aloud,
a mite irreverently, about the mob
whom Eric Jolliffe enshrined, I’m
not about to now; it was he who
had Australian icons elevate their
rustic heads and live a life surreal.
Okay, cartoons for sure although
I view the cas... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2012, 1:00 pm
cleaning windows is the ‘nth
degree of agony; nothing is
what makes ‘em crystal clear
those hardly novel views that
glass should be in place and
seen to be for safe elucidation
oddly bests living in esoteric
derivations of nonbeing, the
improbabilit... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2012, 1:00 pm
lemon-tinctured edge tonight
the wall of sky appends to blue
but up aloft and overhead – I could
expect a bat in flight to mark the
passing of today
it hasn’t happened in my
sight with strident silence yet
to blend reflections left alight
by sta... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 1:00 pm
Won’t call it disappointment
not when it meant little change
to resigned expatriation
Sure, cleaning the space again took
a fair few days but thankfully much
less of an emotional engagement –
And there’s some pride in admitting
self-respect was the magic... Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2012, 1:00 pm
An unravelling, a
disentangling of strands
meshed in memories, a
warp’s weave and weft
of rare blessing less
the binding cloth
Â
No unscrambling a
mask of regret – loss
left honour in a long
hour forgot, bartered
tattered san... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2012, 4:55 pm
a glib line suggests that
she at eight will be the next
greatest entertainer ever
yet – and YouTube never lies
and 17 million hits prescribe
the measure of her fame
events of eminence have
more thorns than blooms –
although in Juliet’s case ... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2012, 1:00 pm
Hoped a better ending
than the febrile clash of
wills defending frailty
Two brittle egos fake a
view of guarantees whose
edges flake too easily
Your freedom is derived
but it relies on certitude
assured in wry calamity
The advent of your will
... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2012, 1:00 pm
mostly you’re better off drunk;
pretence wears weary, breeds
unkind images of contempt
whether you were convincing
meant quizzing candidly with
motives carefully expressed
liked to think without prejudice
the mere act of asking explained
everything â€... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 1:00 pm
libidinous audacity
explains this magic
state; in ecstasy an
avidness of rapture
lingers languidly
of venous timbre
deftly seized and
aptly paced
haven for inflamed
ideas, welcome bed
ablaze, lusciousness
agreed in Saturday ... Comment - Like
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Nov 4, 2011, 7:18 pm
Should I cry wretchedly at news
no media bothered to place or be
amused how blithely it was ignored
But no news is good news if you’re
ignominiously traumatised LOSING
an AFL International series
Yes, Ireland BEAT Australia twice –
2 of 2 – won The Inter... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2011, 2:00 pm
assuming you are
less affected then
suggests discretion
or notable resilience
while delightful waves
wash over me in
self-referenced motes
of gaiety
gratification
crawls into an
impervious withering
of bewilderment
there’s not... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2011, 2:00 pm
Shrugging off that reflex blench
suggests you had a choice – was
there a caution raised? No voice
appeals, is bandied to the fore as
cultured common sense, instead
a lucid roar silent in ambivalence
invades its fussiness to pall upon
the cusp of educ... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2011, 2:59 am
that age agrees and thus contains
the angst – like half-recalled triumph
over anxiety reflects relief but after
the event – like hoped for clarity
in modicums of dangling sense
but some believe in an erstwhile
plant of deep-seated suspicion
which canno... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2011, 2:00 pm
leastways feeling conned suggests
a rare measure of value because
nothing grates worse than being
gauged a total waste of space
that she is two with beautiful blue
eyes of a skilled manipulator in
affective blackmail still pays an
upbeat brand of filial re... Comment - Like
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Oct 26, 2011, 2:00 pm
Watched ‘em all, the petulant
lower lipped hairy eyebrowed
cauliflower eared archetypes,
which shouldn’t’ve made any
difference but in a genetically
conspired conspiracy – did!
They’re Gerrymander faeces
these Politicians! Catastrophes,
th... Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2011, 2:00 pm
this morning
it was whether conscious
awareness equalled existence
a pensive insight blessed on
waking with clear views of
what seemed coherent;
by afternoon
couldn’t care less
if I was collective figments
of urbane imagination run askew; ... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2011, 2:00 pm
The fairy tale today should
end all speculation; there is
no issue of a late reprieve,
to be awake and dreaming
never had a starting place
Reality cannot equivocate
on whether mass allays a rule
that measures matter over
simple facts which state ... Comment - Like
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Oct 23, 2011, 7:10 pm
RWC, New Zealand, 2011
Wasn’t a win you could wallow in
but it was a victory perchance –
a valedictory in simile sense for
coach Graham Henry; and while
we’ll gracefully be spared acerbic
& truncated humour in the next
RWC c/o the same garrulous old ... Comment - Like
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Oct 23, 2011, 2:00 pm
according to Herself we’re on the cusp of
a new arrangement; laudably she’s right,
I’m needed to be a brand-new believer
in the vogue of a virtuoso undertaking
She’s faithful or extremely discrete such
that her worst detractors can’t dent the
pact; I su... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2011, 2:00 pm
They use’ter called him Jim-oh in ‘is later
years, don’t know why that’s so; as kids
we’d called ‘im Bruce-e Goosy ‘cause he
herded geese as easily as happy sheep
And he was good; those bastards honked
me off their patch, bashed me more’n sad
a hu... Comment - Like
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Oct 21, 2011, 2:00 pm
no doubt they’re the
same sensation – like
births and deaths extrapolate
beginnings and endings;
this, too, explains
where finite comforts sagely
weigh upon imagination’s
tare and tomorrow is today’s
child as much as the past
sired to... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2011, 2:00 pm
try as you may
you won’t free yourself
this rictus of regret
those vague creases
appear in serrations
of the wrong ideas
awareness shrinks into
futile demonstrations
of pointlessness
demotivational airs
play baroque off-key
muscular m... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2011, 2:00 pm
a ‘let me explain’ prefix
to a disingenuous tirade
of dated global warming
misinformation suggests
it’s time for sleep again;
– had to have been truly
awake when it happened
if you missed the import
of what we’ve just had –
donâ€... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2011, 2:00 pm
lemon-tinctured edge tonight
the wall of sky appends to blue
but up aloft and overhead – I could
expect a bat in flight to mark the
passing of today
it hasn’t happened in my
sight with strident silence yet
to blend reflect... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2011, 2:00 pm
no, bin Laden wasn’t a saint
but in the next few days what
Osama was will be edited
into martyrdom by proxy
there’ll be estranged acts of
venal rectitude – all bizarrely
swayed by a maimed sense
of post hoc reference
assassinating the depraved ... Comment - Like
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Oct 16, 2011, 7:04 pm
May big mouths of this weekend’s sports press
cease bothering readership – I’ll be honest and
admit I don’t find much in Brisbane’s Sunday
Mail (News Limited) entertaining beyond the
crossword;
But this Sunday’s supposedly best pre-game
analytic appra... Comment - Like
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Oct 16, 2011, 2:00 pm
rice-pattern bowls
made the play – ceramic
deftly articulated
in graceful
understatements
of courageous fragility
each standing
free of another
yet combined where
tiny flaws tell a
deep subtlety of
intrigui... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2011, 2:00 pm
another day For Sale
you wake uneasy in a
continuum’s innocuous
inconsistency – attempt
to count odds and make
disparate ends meet
hung-over from weeks of
self-denial cleaning benches
before breakfast massages
insecurity – like eccentri... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2011, 2:00 pm
Regrettable symptoms
of presbyopia are in the
materialization of pricey
multifocal glasses
Sure, you’re seeing more,
or is that euphemistic for
what you didn’t see before
copping the torrid expense
It probably didn’t matter
that much back t... Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2011, 2:00 pm
been a day of diminishing
revelations, not particularly
enlightening events, more
like ego-shrinking occasions
swamp-wading in
embarrassment
firstly a gumboot resident
green tree frog balances you
an earthy limb – better
teetering without i... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2011, 2:00 pm
Pardon me, am I missing something?
After a mere 8 YEARS elected service
QLD politicians qualify for government
superannuation – but risk everything
on an early election date!
What on earth is risked? Reputation?
Credibility? Cushy retirement? Sounds
a â€... Comment - Like
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Oct 11, 2011, 2:00 pm
so heaven’s a little place
with you in it – I guessed
but I am mystified it
wasn’t sacrosanct
until you left
now I’ve a revelation why
I couldn’t understand;
too few words describe
the hell which then
arraigned
you were gone ... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2011, 2:00 pm
a ‘let me explain’ prefix
to a disingenuous tirade
of dated global warming
misinformation suggests
it’s time for sleep again;
– had to have been truly
awake when it happened
if you missed the import
of what we’ve just had –
donâ€... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2011, 12:06 am
Been ‘discovered’, maybe,
an anonymous guy wrote a
friend supposedly saying my
poetry was worth reading
Can’t decide whether that’s
backhand, sotto voce praise
sent kind of, y’know, nudge,
nudge, wink, wink – or an
Affirmation of past tense... Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2011, 9:18 pm
barking impetuously at 2 am
suits a sublime view of the
ridiculous – you holler at
the moon with impunity
but don’t get relief
sleep eludes tho’ there’s
hope you’ll tire realising
no other neighbourhood
dog has answered these
ridicu... Comment - Like
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Oct 6, 2011, 9:09 pm
it comes down to the way we
identify ourselves, I suppose
we find more similarities with
ice-cream than bare anomalies
must be a damn sight easier
to lick one’s ass from a bowl
of misgivings than care less
about true aborigine origins
we’re preferentiall... Comment - Like
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