Sometimes
Sometimes
I wish
I had been born
a wild cyclamen
of mauve and green
in a calm
shady wood
of trees and flowers
and there my life
would unwind
unseen.
poem by Vince Gullaci
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Songs Of Our Heart
From a migrant
schoolboy
singing
Click Go The Shears
and
Bound For South Australia
to an old man
waltzing Matilda
as Advance Australia Fair
opens.
poem by Vince Gullaci
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Spreading The Faith
I'd rather be hanged
for being a coward
and a thief
than one of those
televangelists
with one eye on your breast
and the other
on your bank balance.
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As I See It
Americans
must man the barricades
storm the battlements
The Bastille can be won
of the vested interests
who would deny Americans
Health Care Reform.
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The Flame Of Laughter
I can't let those
enjoying
a good laugh
at my poems
deter me
make instead
their mockery
the flame of laughter
to steel my spine
to be a better poet.
poem by Vince Gullaci
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The Northern Lights
See
the wonder
of Auroa Borealis
or the height
and breath
of Victoria Falls
my dreams more mundane
fantasies of sex
turns up
the old flatline
for me.
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Blue Funk
The immutable law
of nightmares
the harder I struggled
to ingratiate myself
with the harbingers
of doom
the deeper I sank
into the funk
of the dream.
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The Hard Road
Now you know
The way
The night is falling
The animals
Baying the loudest
Are set loose
By the dark
And the forest
Closes in
While their hunger
Grows.
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Wised Up
I'm the one
Whose paid
The price
The scars that healed
Are mine
Other wounds
Are open sores
Self-inflicted
Or otherwise
Too painful
To be scabbed over.
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Free
No one's
going to pay
for something
I can't give away
and those posted
scream of impermanence
a pissing
against the wind
for relevance
in a cruel world.
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