Barry Middleton Poems

everything that falls to earth
must land upon this page
all the pain and joy of life
the wisdom of the sage
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soaring on a sea of air
the falcon knows an ecstasy
that birth denied to you and me
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these are the simple things
that I may trust

the morning star
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love and mystery
are silent questions

like children ask
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I once did find a distant mead,
quite hidden where the woods recede.

It was remote from pasture land.
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the wild green parrot
came from afar
a slave in an iron cage
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Creation does not roll the dice
with universe and time.

We need no Einstein quantum test
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Beneath the sugarberry tree,
I dreamed on summer days

of all the possibilities
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I might have died for love
but lived to only die

I'd like to live for love
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upon a mountaintop in Spain
I pondered on a mystery
for I had never sailed the sea
how could this mountain come to be
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