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Kendrick Smithyman

I lived from 1943-1995. I was from New Zealand, and am in the Oceania category.

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  • After
    Put your man down somewhere
    in a good lasting soil.
    14 lines
  • The Sisters
    One outlives her sympathies, and one
    must drowse by day because her nights refuse
    14 lines
  • Atlantis may be Six Feet Under
    Sequins, their shadings, spark Atlantis lost
    where morning bloom falters. Out and away
    19 lines
  • 3 Sonnets for Migrants
    Stiff work for hands or will, they drove
    their brig southward. Science asked them assign
    51 lines
  • Lady as Swan
    Lady, when the first swan professed
    her main concern it was dignity
    39 lines
  • Nine Days
    Nine days gone, darling, telling
    rudely my living off while gulls spilling
    33 lines
  • To be absent without leave
    Time, sweeping, desolates
    your best hours and your hand
    15 lines
  • Serviceman's Complaint
    Cockcrow’s chalky virtue, a swan
    scales up and over willows,
    34 lines
  • Seven Days Leave
    Like flies about their ceiling aircraft haul
    over the cloudcap, your far sight outclimb.
    38 lines
  • Appointment in Samara
    Direct your glass towards the frigates.
    The clock’s hands are stayed this quarter-hour.
    36 lines
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