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Poems by Ivan Donn Carswell

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Other side

... when all your cattle are accounted for, grazing ...

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Out of ideas…

... broken and lifeless, steeped in self-pity, and usually bright ...

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Out of The Annexe

... lost and won. And our glasses filled and refilled in voluminous conviviality ...

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Paper towel

... relax, at last I’m bleeding, it’s a great relief, but I don’t ...

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Partisanship and politics

... afraid of change with fears as drear as odds against their re-election ...

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Desires that you can only tame to know

... Her wanton wiles and artist's touch had stirred me deep, ...

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Pedestrian ambitions

... relationships, one in Benson’s den under guard from ...

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Piscine kind of kinship

... in gently rippled peace, rarely spoke, we had no need, ...

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Political nonsense

... and yet he had the irksome gall to ask us for our trust! And thus the blame he sought to wield ...

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Possums came at night

... The moon is right tonight, full and fair, our father reasoned, we’ll see them ...

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Puissant Morons

... I’m kind of loath to bear more scars as recent as today ...

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Pumpkins in our time

... the time, fostering a rare, sublime relationship to reap ...

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Rangipo Desert

... and blight its natural stateBetween the trees that ravin the landscape ...

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Ready to step into life

... I contemplated the post with a lean at the front gate ...

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Remember with affection

... and still perceive her blinding spell ...