Barry Middleton Poems

my pool cue ain't straight anymore
my pool cue ain't straight anymore
my pool cue, ain't straight
I'm a dollar short and another day late
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I dream in poetry
and all the colors of autumn.
My days are haunted with nuance,
the insinuation of a mockingbird,
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Just five generations
most men will know.
I knew Great Grandfather
by a faded photograph
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Five acres and independence
was a book my mother read;
the book became a dream,
then reality, now a memory.
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Rules are made by fools,
but with the best intention,
to save some other fool
from crisis intervention.
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Silly Cytherea
has gone to went
and silken seek out
heaven's sent
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The underworld serpent,
cold blooded Uncreator,
and mortal enemy of Ra,
circles the earth valley
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for sure there are sitters
who never get started
maybe fearful of life
or simply fainthearted
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has it always been this way?
cowering behind a fire
at the mouth of the cave?
fear will rule if you let it,
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Those people are the enemy.
Those are the barbarians.
They will always be at the gates.
Eternal avarice awaits.
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