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Neale Lucas
Aug 20, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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 Her clothes are out of date.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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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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