POETRY.
DREAMTIME Here, at the invaders talk-talk place, We, who are the strangers now, Come with sorrow in our hearts. The Bora Ring, the...
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Neale Lucas
- Aug 17, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
DESPAIR Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! Like melting fog the mirage melts away In...
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Neale Lucas
- Aug 15, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
THE GOOD SOLDIER on someone else's place it seems to him the land slings distance way out the dirt is dead and the sky seems twisted the...
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Neale Lucas
- Aug 6, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
YOUNG GIRL AT A WINDOW Lift your hand to the window latch: Sighing, turn and move away. More than mortal swords are crossed On thresholds...
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Neale Lucas
- Jul 31, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
A LITTLE GHOST The moonlight flutters from the sky To meet her at the door, A little ghost, whose steps have passed Across the creaking...
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Neale Lucas
- Jul 24, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
IN THE PARK She sits in the park. Her clothes are out of date. Two children whine and bicker, tug her skirt. A third draws aimless...
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Neale Lucas
- Jul 19, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
THE DISPOSSESSED Peace was yours, Australian man, with tribal laws you made, Till white Colonials stole your peace with rape and murder...
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Neale Lucas
- Jul 7, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER We did not bury him deep enough; break up the monument, Open the tomb, strip off the flags and the flowers And let us...
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Neale Lucas
- Jun 26, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
Woman to Man The eyeless labourer in the night, the selfless, shapeless seed I hold, builds for its resurrection day – silent and swift...
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Neale Lucas
- Jun 9, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
dedicated to Leesa. "WAIT" Your heart has been torn away, unexpectedly ripped from your chest. Desolation and dismay, replace what was...
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Neale Lucas
- May 28, 2022
- 3 min
POEM OF THE DAY.
ULYSSES It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole...
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Neale Lucas
- May 21, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
MY COUNTRY The love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded lanes. Of ordered woods and gardens Is running in your veins, Strong love...
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Neale Lucas
- May 11, 2022
- 2 min
POETRY.
THE GUNDAROO BULLOCK Oh, there's some that breeds the Devon that's as solid as a stone, And there's some that breeds the brindle which...
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Neale Lucas
- May 1, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
ON THE DEATH OF THE BELOVED Though we need to weep your loss, You dwell in that safe place in our hearts, Where no storm or night or pain...
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Neale Lucas
- Apr 24, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
FOR THE FALLEN With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they...
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Neale Lucas
- Apr 2, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
OLD JOE SWALLOW Old Joe Swallow, with his short clay pipe — With his hat pushed back from his brow — He loves for to linger by the hut...
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Neale Lucas
- Mar 22, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
METHO DRINKER Under the death of winter's leaves he lies who cried to Nothing and the terrible night to be his home and bread. "O take...
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Neale Lucas
- Mar 17, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
THE UKRAINIAN'S LAMENT We are at the mercy of a man who knows no mercy We are at the mercy of a man whose hubris knows no bound A man who...
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Neale Lucas
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
PEACE IS A FICTION OF OUR FAITH Peace is a fiction of our Faith— The Bells a Winter Night Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound That never...
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Neale Lucas
- Feb 22, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
STILL I RISE You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll...
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