Australian poet: John Ellison Davies

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Responsibilities


poets rise early

(don’t laugh) aware

of their responsibilities


to save some people

from themselves


to save language itself

from the same people


to remind you


we live in a land

too old for petty thoughts


  • John Ellison Davies




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