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Neale Lucas
Feb 7, 20221 min read
POETRY.
IF If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt...
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Neale Lucas
Jan 30, 20221 min read
POETRY.
A PSLAM OF LIFE Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what...
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Neale Lucas
Jan 22, 20221 min read
POETRY.
PEACE Ah, that Time could touch a form That could show what Homer’s age Bred to be a hero’s wage. ‘Were not all her life but storm Would...
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Neale Lucas
Jan 18, 20222 min read
POETRY.
THE LAST OF HIS TRIBE He crouches, and buries his face on his knees, And hides in the dark of his hair; For he cannot look up to the...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 31, 20211 min read
POETRY.
RING OUT, WILD BELLS Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out,...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 19, 20211 min read
POETRY.
THE FUTURE NEVER SPOKE The Future never spoke – Nor will he like the Dumb Reveal by sign – a Syllable Of His Profound To Come – But when...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 1, 20211 min read
POETRY.
LET US NOT BE BITTER Away with bitterness, my own dark people Come stand with me, look forward, not back, For a new time has come for us....
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Neale Lucas
Nov 18, 20211 min read
POETRY.
To An Old Mate Old Mate! In the gusty old weather, When our hopes and our troubles were new, In the years spent in wearing out leather,...
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Neale Lucas
Nov 9, 20211 min read
POETRY.
LONG NEGLECT HAS WORN AWAY Long neglect has worn away Half the sweet enchanting smile; Time has turned the bloom to gray; Mold and damp...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 30, 20211 min read
POETRY.
BANNOCKBURN AT Bannockburn the English lay,-- The Scots they were na far away, But waited for the break o' day That glinted in the east....
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Neale Lucas
Oct 22, 20213 min read
POETRY.
THE ROCK CRIES OUT TO US TODAY A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 1, 20211 min read
POETRY.
SAILING TO BYZANTIUM I That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees, —Those dying generations—at...
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Neale Lucas
Sep 10, 20213 min read
POETRY.
GHANA CALLS I was a little boy, at home with strangers. I liked my playmates, and knew well, Whence all their parents came; From England,...
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Neale Lucas
Sep 2, 20211 min read
POETRY.
THE HORSE FELL OFF THE POEM The horse fell off the poem and the Galilean women were wet with butterflies and dew, dancing above...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 30, 20212 min read
POETRY.
I remember being read this at primary school and absolutely falling in love with it. MULGA BILL'S BICYCLE 'Twas Mulga Bill, from...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 5, 20211 min read
POETRY.
A PERFECT SUICIDE And here I will sacrifice all rhyme, that is, I will avoid any of the beautiful consequences which may intrude on...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 2, 20212 min read
POETRY.
DADDY You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 25, 20211 min read
POETRY.
TO THE LITERARY LADIES Here they come the clever ladies in their detachable Peter Pan collars their fringes their sober mein hiding such...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 18, 20211 min read
POETRY.
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 8, 20211 min read
POETRY.
WILD NIGHTS - WILD NIGHTS! Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart...
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