Barry Middleton Poems

some things never change
morning brings the sun
hope is rising in the east
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when I am fast asleep
I dream again of you
the night is filled with stars
and love is young and new
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I think I'll end this story with a love song.
I hope that you will also sing along.

The love I'm thinking of is not a person.
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horizontal rays of light
illuminate the stolid trees
swaying in a gentle breeze
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when a storm sweeps in from the gulf
and pines and oaks toss their crowns
there is a harmony on the breeze
like a ballet in sky fire
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so when I laughed at death
she was angry

I guess she thought a grim
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No more her poems capture me,
within a spellbound dream,
no more to send me soaring high,
to lands I've never seen.
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I found the mountaintop
and saw eternity

I swam from the riptide
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it is so easily said
and yet so hard to hold
not like the fairy tale
that we were often told
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there is a stairway only I can climb
without a light in darkness and alone
although I know that peace is waiting there
beyond a gate that must remain unknown
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