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Paul Cameron Brown ? Poetry Listing Read More About Paul Cameron Brown below poetry list Poem Title First Lines Period # Lines # Reads 1: 1920's Flicker John Dillinger and Baby-Faced Nelson 22 179 2: A Face A face in the mist, with rain around, 5 253 3: A Thief's Notebook Baggage. Banal brigands, 9 162 4: Ace Of Spades Parable as metaphor - 21 190 5: Adua Adua had never regarded his life as a pantomime. 10 139 6: Adventurer How desert islands 24 176 7: Adversaries He held his hands like plastic - 19 173 8: Ahoy Image throttled in the subconscious, 24 160 9: Airbrush Iced coffee, 28 157 10: Alcatraz White ibis/blue crane, 18 151 11: Ambergris City Felt no pain against the water, 15 156 12: Amherst Island In winter, you were 33 154 13: Ancestral Memory Patrician to my plebian, 22 128 14: Ancient Of Days It's Epsom but could pass for Epping, 23 169 15: And Then Some The anger past 25 171 16: Animals And The Stars Crickets are a strange place, 16 151 17: Antarctica Perhaps it is needed to balance the planet: to provide 35 152 18: Approaching Thirty (Lauds And Matins) Laconic tears or Botticelli's Venus 22 174 19: Asgard In the ardour 12 142 20: At The Red Throat In youth, Death was 46 149 21: Automobile Soft Legs Now, it came to pass that a seasoned young diner 13 158 22: Barbary White How death will steal, from life, to claim us all, 4 150 23: Bargaining Unit The man about to become a sparrow 23 110 24: Bedroom Glass Counted three white pigeons 10 198 25: Bee An Apple The taste of an apple, 8 168 26: Begin And Beguile If brains be gables & minds, say, the shutters 24 159 27: Belize Giving myself permission to write - 99 149 28: Between Two Stones They poured hot water into people's cups 7 154 29: Blackamoor Breaking up - 51 146 30: Bloodcount My mind had almost died. 21 149 31: Bloodstream Camping out, a miraculous thing happened. 15 176 32: Blue*Eyed Grasses Rocky shale, pale voile, 20 153 33: Boca Nature abhors a vacuum", theorists of both philosophy and politics assure us. 180 168 34: Braggadocio Chess playing Death 62 130 35: Bravura Memory as embankment, 15 145 36: Brébeuf Brébeuf is looking at the land that bears his namesake. 5 159 37: Brushstroke On rue Vincingetorix, 14 175 38: Buzz Phrase Down on your luck 19 147 39: Canadian Book Review Annual 1985 Le voyage exotique devient parfois fantistique. 4 129 40: Candlelight In Black The ghosts are marmalade 23 140 41: Canvassing And I thought of things, 12 156 42: Cape Of Good Hope Poltergeist activity 14 193 43: Carnival And Lent Jungle, the cave 46 131 44: Casha A child-like fawn 16 156 45: Casting Rocks Merely on edge, 20 171 46: Chain Letter I'm sitting in a "sixties bar." No put-on. 27 277 47: Chance Upon As she's lying there in sherbet panties 18 165 48: Chemin De Fer Had I been 36 173 49: Chinatown I And a little farther 10 170 50: Chinatown-I As they are crawling up to you 10 155 51: Chopsticks Only marginal chances 11 133 52: Chrysalis Fury of chrysalis, or crepuscular caterpillar's roosting nest, 19 161 53: Cienfuegos The white pin wheel of heat turns up the grasses' edge. 16 123 54: City The Insects Invade The old man sleeps with his weeping. 4 141 55: Clandestine Operation The most appropriate comment, 13 142 56: Claws Unfolding gazes 8 188 57: Clippership Pausing to see 14 151 58: Cold Passion The land is barren 27 151 59: Colette The waitress mainlines 19 144 60: Collusion A surtax on the ecosystem; 10 154 61: Comments Unrestrained, imaginative writing. 20 124 62: Comments Unrestrained, imaginative writing. 6 153 63: Corner Store Fifties Reveille I met Bear at the 5 n' dime 16 157 64: Countess The pig's head omelette - 18 137 65: Countess II Imagining the smoke burnt 22 168 66: Crying Scene If you're going to drop the gauntlet 12 146 67: Cuando-Cubango Moths, if they dream dusk, 33 143 68: Cubits A woman is a trough 16 191 69: Cud There were a series 52 191 70: Currency One of the cows was Belladonna, 10 182 71: Darkening Green My mind, rarely with me alone, 7 185 72: Dash Into Realism: Escape Pad From The Sixties For one, street argot became tougher. 15 139 73: Debriefing I won't envy the heat this August. 48 140 74: Desire Sleep is a striking woman 21 166 75: Desire Sleep is a striking woman 22 133 76: Devastation Little red berries are 13 144 77: Dinner At Eight At times, I thought of swizzling white rum 55 146 78: Distemper Looking into the glassy crucifix of water. 13 159 79: Dress Rehearsal The universe is expanding 102 143 80: Dry Guillotine In my childhood, "Verdun," meant madness. 44 139 81: East Of Oswego Ticonderoga to Lake George, 23 201 82: Electra Fantasy, Capri. The edge of a pillow. 13 203 83: Embers As you enter into dream - 8 210 84: Emptiness The threadbare uniforms 9 159 85: Empty Warriors The jungle where the meow goes in, is 9 137 86: Ending Up reads like 17 145 87: Entry Point Ants colonized it 24 198 88: Equinox The four Equinox sisters, 44 152 89: Errands Somewhere in the distance a dog kept at his baying. 17 168 90: Every Man's Hand raised against them 69 152 91: Eyes Inside There's cadence 6 289 92: Eyeshine I remember the world like a picture. 29 151 93: Fabulist Riel veritably in a cockpit - 29 194 94: Fence Line That Captain Kidd scribbling of rock in the fields 25 167 95: Fire Bush If flies be dragons 15 166 96: Fishing Nets The polar stars drip in blood . . . 9 170 97: Flashpoint The moon has a larder 33 131 98: Flood White ermine/white semen, 19 166 99: For Tom Thomson I have thrust my fists 44 163 100: Forest Spittle The preciseness of that little moment, 6 185 101: Fortress Snow The embankment lies as heavy 23 134 102: Gangland A sailor, "tatoo you," 40 180 103: Ghost Tales With leaves twitching 20 138 104: Gladiators No broken visor, emptied glove 7 214 105: Godiva Lingerie, 20 191 106: Gossamer Threads I feel like cutting my finger, 12 143 107: Gourds A cemetery overgrown 6 184 108: Green Angellights Green angel lights 16 145 109: Green Eye Shields I have stars drying in my eyes. 12 131 110: Guadalquivir In a pleasureless world, pure pleasure exists. 19 153 111: Hamomlette A VICTIM OF INDIGESTION OR PATRICIDE? 10 152 112: Hannibal When Hannibal mowed down Romans 17 118 113: Hardcases I dreamed my toenails 75 139 114: Haunted Child In the dark of wedlock 8 165 115: Headdress Stravinsky's Firebird, 24 154 116: Helluland We built bottlecaps off 30 141 117: Hewanorra The moon, at most a shudder or two away. 18 127 118: Hidden Agenda Mariachis, almost a Spanish temperament within those stars, 26 190 119: High Frequency Draw (High Alert) Les bougies sur les tombeaux 4 158 120: High Roller Terrorism - 121 139 121: Highgate Angel Inn, 37 172 122: Homuncular Forms Cape aux Morts. 24 137 123: Humboldt's Current Cresta roja wine 16 165 124: Il Giardino Cloves on the table. 18 127 125: Illuminaire Elfin & gold bug, 19 267 126: Imagistic There in the cosmos - 15 156 127: In My Books The way I figure it, a number of people are 15 135 128: In The Cenote Under a candlelit operetta 24 207 129: Inside Seam Having wilderness cracks 45 117 130: Investiture Our nights have cruel eyes 20 140 131: Isles And Rivulets On your brow, the steppes of Asia 23 126 132: Jabiru Clarence, the pipe stem would grow hot with rage 9 154 133: Jagged Wire A rail fence is more than that on a country dawn 14 172 134: Juniper Trees Sitting as Buddha on a chocolate juniper 27 142 135: Kindling As a matter of fact, 11 160 136: King And John Streets (For Isabella Vacancy Crawford) When the shadows are hungry 31 164 137: Kipper, Tea And Oranges Our lives evaporating as we talk, 14 202 138: Kith And Kin Once there was a giant 42 160 139: Knight-Errant A well-thumbed book 56 151 140: Kublai Khan The Japanese are coming! Now there's a fresh twist 78 120 141: La Douce Mer Too greedy hormonal levels, 13 151 142: Landing Schemes Omens are the cloth of dreams 10 134 143: Lavender A mind is a ray of light running to the sea; 51 146 144: Leaf Doctor You said happiness was a bird 8 171 145: Leaves Of The Cecropia Tree And what of privileged things 24 177 146: Lithuanian Dolls /Consulate Front These eyes of dolls seem leaden stones 30 152 147: Living Room If anatomy were a contact sport, 16 131 148: Lolita Gardens A man weeps at your ankles, 24 166 149: Lost Patrol Blue walls were grottoes, 27 147 150: Made In Space Mood food. In deep, deep water 15 173 151: Magpie Tongues Trillium breath, an ounce 21 137 152: Mail Drop A boat sits on the very shallows 27 167 153: Malingering Malingering, 10 189 154: Man In the old air 14 149 155: Mangroves How do you survive 24 153 156: Mangroves How do you survive 35 175 157: Marzipan A thick hole in the dark 35 148 158: Men Of Shade All the candles are passing out, one by one. 6 161 159: Metaphor There is a star near 37 144 160: Midpoint The thin, feathery blue 8 141 161: Mirage The intense focus of light 17 169 162: Moccasin Backwoods cabin, opera house 19 156 163: Moon Dark World The trees 7 178 164: Moonrock She wears a cat encrusted T-shirt 36 150 165: Naiad Trance The leaves on their trumpet flames 41 188 166: Night Fishing At Antibes A beach back of bric à brac, 35 323 167: Night Sky I can call a lake a kettle 19 148 168: Night Winds They made us sit alphabetically in rows. 10 126 169: Northwoods Poem Watermelon, 19 130 170: Not So Much I evaded capture today 46 147 171: Ocean Sea Cueta and Tetuan are outposts within the Arab psyche, 52 169 172: Offerings (A Movement In Four Parts) The night is folly without the moon, 78 242 173: Old Brompton Road Death is but a sleep 28 144 174: Onomatopoeia One thing about this type of education, 12 183 175: Oracabessa An iron wrought gate of turpentine force conveys little pigment, 22 154 176: Orange Lichens Orange lichens, in sun-like clusters, 21 160 177: Orifice To perforate in adumbration, 5 161 178: Palais Royale The night cold as nuggets, dark as acorn, 14 137 179: Paleface Old Sawbones, pale as a sheet, 19 153 180: Passageways Greet the days 72 165 181: Passing I should be busy with words 6 170 182: Pastiche These shell-queens, too, 48 137 183: Peculiar Morning As if every living thing lived, breathed 6 151 184: Pelée The night before ... 29 182 185: Pelée: May 8, 1902 With the smile of morning 37 132 186: Pencil Sketches Staying home, 13 151 187: Penny Wise, Pound Poor Fall was a tubercular cousin 38 164 188: Perhaps Perhaps the sky once was shadows, 6 178 189: Picaroon Scouting the sun 67 134 190: Picpus The day I went to LaFayette's grave, the 37 196 191: Pillage It's chess of sorts but 35 167 192: Piltdown Man Popping out of the dark 55 147 193: Plaudits Loki, the Norwegian god of mischief, 2 172 194: Plums & Vine Plums and vine (as the Atlantic is green) 10 173 195: Poetry Canada Poesie wry humour. 4 181 196: Poets Are Magic Beings She sits within the Magic Lantern 25 157 197: Pogrom There is an unhurried resemblance to pain, here, 11 164 198: Point Spread Off memory 69 136 199: Ponchontas Years ago, when life was too violent for any to live very old, 6 152 200: Pondicherry Chess pieces resting upon the jade mantle piece 18 139 201: Pondicherry Chess pieces resting upon the jade 25 136 202: Preening The sky is red and comes 15 166 203: Presence Of Mind Spring heralds the summer with lilacs perched from that door. 14 168 204: Primavera A poem is perishable and, 19 142 205: Prospectus In salt flats, 18 150 206: Pyromania She had a fireplace - 11 139 207: Rain Film On the night of the rains, 21 151 208: Reading The Tides: Petroglyph Park A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun 35 177 209: Red Fox (Red Horse Lake) A magnificent Red Devil 16 159 210: Red Illusions Under Glass Life as green illusion - 15 147 211: Refresher Course And he told them "the universe is a ripe apple in heavenly 10 140 212: Regalia If the rich are different 15 130 213: Regalia If the rich are different 15 168 214: Resignation Petals that fall into a woodland pool 6 210 215: Rip Rip, an inarticulate dog with a namesake derivative of more. 11 188 216: Rites Of Intensification Did time on the Hegelian 13 122 217: Rocking Horse Fate is a mahout astride a large elephant, impersonal 10 139 218: Rogue And Privateer The Squirrel, a corsair, 11 162 219: Rouge And Gray So much time has passed 27 134 220: Rowing With Crayons I see children rowing with crayons 8 160 221: Sabbat Picturesque Tituba, steeped in Obeah, 41 153 222: San Cristobal A gypsy sits in a taverna 44 156 223: Sanguine Imagine, being told cubism isn't painting. That 77 127 224: Santo Domingo In the crypt with Columbus 24 167 225: Seaeggs The reef was inviting, her languid coral nudging the breakers 18 170 226: Seagulls I see many thoughts from a window. 6 205 227: Seaward Whirl of patterned images, 17 146 228: Sentry In Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream, eyes 8 191 229: Sequin A youthful bandit 24 146 230: Serenade A green flotilla, 36 133 231: Serpentine More fragment of tree 13 172 232: Shamrock Is there anything prettier than that - 30 166 233: Shivaree These kettle bells. 48 172 234: Sideway Look It's snowing and all I can think of 19 145 235: Silver Coins Seen the whores in doorsteps, 12 158 236: Six Owlets Six owlets sitting in a tree, 12 237 237: Sixties Hangover We have all been here before. 22 131 238: Skin Her emerald top 24 164 239: Skootematta Sheldrake, a magician 18 129 240: Slaughterhouse You're the aggressor 44 124 241: Sleigh Bells In fury, come the Heavens, 8 150 242: Slipper When I was very young 12 162 243: Smears A snowy morning 5 175 244: Smokestack A small fish, 8 179 245: Southwark I noticed a bust of Shakespeare, an effigy in stone with 19 138 246: Spanked Buying up egg rolls at 50¢ a kick, 15 141 247: Stillness Invitingly, the sea shines her stars, 12 158 248: Stone Guide She was fading - 12 143 249: Street Scene No open barge 8 162 250: Summer's Clock Two is a fonder number gracing the clock than one 4 140 251: Sweet Water The leaves lie hidden as spades about their home. 16 145 252: Swords And Roses Some lives have themes. 68 160 253: Tales Of Brave Ulysses Artists (astrologers never lie) 24 143 254: Tank-Top I was playing sonatas on your skin - 34 158 255: Teeter-Totter He was Popeye the Sailor Man 14 134 256: Terminal Living The image complete 115 160 257: Testimony When snow falls, there lives 10 162 258: The Assignation (Pons Asinorum) Many devils are in woods, in waters, in wilderness and in dark, 28 178 259: The Bay Of Cortes The sea is a requisitioned article in my possession. 24 145 260: The Bells The dangling of bells 17 148 261: The Bloodfish A story about tears that became minnows and sobs large fishes in their place. 5 172 262: The Breath Of Candles The breath of candles, 7 120 263: The Bullfrog He sat with no more compunction 21 156 264: The Burning The sun is a burning magnet on the water. 24 186 265: The Cable Car The Haitian effect of stars 18 156 266: The Camera Cage As a child, all common sense decreed 20 156 267: The Clearing That Is The Trees I want to go walking in troubled marshes 51 148 268: The Crowkeeper I see grindstones in the sky, 33 167 269: The Draper's Cloth I imagine stars at the dragon's tail, 20 183 270: The East Is Red We can survive a nuclear War. It's scarcely credible, 89 146 271: The Elysian Fields The Elysian fields 23 162 272: The Encounter Today surprised me 8 143 273: The Garden And like a cobbler at a bench 30 162 274: The Garden Patch Gourd was taken to task when she understood the limitations 10 154 275: The Gathering Of Dead Wood The gathering of dead wood - driven, 18 165 276: The Gingham Dream Utterance As I watch the clouds assemble, steam-ship fashion 28 149 277: The Glowworm In slow sutures of pale white - 15 175 278: The Hire Corn's high this year," chirped the old woman 25 160 279: The Hydaspes And I, cooing in my saddle, with lost time. 18 186 280: The Intruder The colouring of spacious flowers rove delicious to the eye. 16 153 281: The Jolly Tupper Sun on the eiderdown 18 328 282: The Keeper Of The Jewel The keeper of the jewel. 13 175 283: The Monarch She wanted her beauty too soon and must now forfeit it for the moment. 5 159 284: The Necklace Garden For my part, I spied red berries 33 143 285: The Nightlamp Like a wail in the back of an inflammed throat 11 168 286: The Pelly, The Powder And The Snake The cowboy's overriding presence in North America 9 148 287: The Poetry Pond Everyone is a poet, or so the philosopher said. The world teems 37 171 288: The Potato Eaters The potato eaters 15 140 289: The Rake's Progress I borrow De Quincey's Confessions 22 152 290: The River Cuts A Channel People with money but no fortune 7 158 291: The Sandpit Bertrand had been surprised by the recoil of his father's rifle. 16 170 292: The Spoken Word I touch your 13 147 293: The Strongbox He was always the one to figure things, 24 162 294: The Toronto Star The poetry is fine... rewarding reading... 4 191 295: The Toronto Star, Saturday, November 30, 1985 Bare bones future 11 157 296: The Treasure Ships Rich ornamental procession 36 158 297: The Wager I can live an adventuresome life vicariously through my characters. 49 182 298: The Waters Of The Bay Lie Beneath An abandoned house 31 195 299: The Woodsman Barely annoying the woods, 20 184 300: The World Of Dying Love The long finger of blackness is holding its head for us. 19 128 301: The World Of Tezcatlipoca the fourth state of water in its plasmic state 23 135 302: This Way To The Sixties: John Lennon's Death Five Years After It was a red letter day and all within a decade, the sixties. 43 138 303: Tickings Of A Clock I began to see old lanterns, books 22 159 304: Tide Charts To create dream - 64 147 305: To Cross The Bay I wouldn't try a crossing in weather like this 21 160 306: To Sit Arrayed To sit arrayed 19 125 307: Toronto Quennelles. Lady of the Gold Horse with Diamond Eyes. 9 150 308: Toronto In Toronto, trendy bars absolutely must have a theme 31 150 309: Trespass I would imagine 6 157 310: Triangular Trade I would watch him lifting 11 186 311: Trinkets My mind a buzz saw, 12 125 312: Trout Lake Hotel The walls don't lack sincerity, here, 21 132 313: Turncoat Sitting in the spendthrift dark 32 158 314: Tussaud's In the wax museum with Attila and Genghis and Tamerlane 57 166 315: Twillingate We all end up badly and 21 163 316: Twinkling Of An Eye On twin tails of a comet 14 256 317: Undulate, My Tongue My tongue undulates, a wave to shore, 11 158 318: Unpaginated Orchestrating violins thru whisky sky 63 130 319: Up From The Floor They sit in silence. In camera, around the table. 8 144 320: Upturn The Rock Upon the rocks where the baubles of broken blue glass wink 7 167 321: Vertigo We're travelling down a carnival road, are met at intersections by 19 170 322: Viewer Mail The sky was 19 146 323: Village Idiot Dodder capitulates on his bum, 16 172 324: Voyage The mystique of the sea, 10 141 325: Vulcans Adder toothed flowers snake 27 171 326: Wanderlust Who administers to my needs? 61 153 327: Warhorse Taken as metaphor ... 33 164 328: Water Fast (The Pearl Fishers) Shopping in their heads 54 132 329: What Became Of The Sixties? The "Haight," in Ashbury lived up to its name. 18 120 330: What Colour Is Love? Sixties idols were built to last. 22 157 331: When I Was A Much Younger Man When I was a much younger man, 48 113 332: When Labouring To Break Perhaps one is in prison - 21 152 333: Where A dark, shadow grey moth 12 189 334: Whisky Girl I like'em ragged round the rim, 9 153 335: Whispers Suppose and this is just supposing, 16 163 336: White China Plates I The moon hummed like a refrigerator, 46 127 337: White China Plates II You could have driven 13 152 338: Wild Card Clayton brothers at the corral, 10 161 339: Wincing You can't go back, 22 128 340: Windfall Photos along a soft-centred wall 38 160 341: Within Reach There are two images, 30 173 342: Woodsy Backwoods Poem I saw Bear 30 127 343: Work In Progress Two Chinese fellows approached me in a London suburb. 100 136 344: Yellow Hair With that lime green hairnet 13 152 About: English born, Paul Cameron Brown has lived in or around the Toronto area for most of his thirty years. His poems have appeared in periodicals across Canada and into the United States. This page viewed 2564 times.

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