Barbara Nixon Poems

Light extinguished, glimmer defeated,
spread across my heart, a sacred scar
the oxygen of time a cliched healer,
locked in a cage my joy hath retreated.
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Magician Of My Yesterday

I have witnessed thine every colour
hues that blend and merge
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The colour orange
has become the new black
graces the pavements
adorns stark cul de sacs.
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Amethyst,
Oh purple blaze
like a garden of violets
in Summer's sweet haze
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There's an undercurrent of change sweeping city and dale

a quiet awakening of old secrets buried deep,
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Over thirty years we've been acquainted

it seems I know you less and less,
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On a dew kissed rock a man sat and listened
to the rhythmic murmur of the brook
its smooth meandering pathway
hypnotic caw of nesting rook
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Not from the wombs of crashed meteorites
infinitesimal bacteria propagating life
random collision, accidental fusion
challenging the belief of sentient vision.
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A politic, a religion.
a trigger, a boot
mindless intentions,
fuelled by hate,
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All the tell tale signs

a mother always knows
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