Barry Middleton Poems

I wake with the first glow of dawn
in my cabin in the forest

the windows open wide in good weather
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a castoff from a distant land
conspired with night and poetry

composing darkness and the dawn
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I heard the heart of poetry
I was inspired by the curve of space
and by the breath of summer
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They are gone, families grieve,
the nation grieves the outrage.
The night is hushed as we recall
children laughing and dreaming.
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the panther scans the swamp
black tipped ears listen
to the hiss of distant traffic
now familiar as a sibilant wind
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we can't save poetry
time consumes it all

time consumes the earth
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A grave in the old graveyard,
it was said belonged to a witch.
A sinister chain was the safeguard,
from the curse if it ever unhitched.
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The ancient gods bequeath to me
the woodlands of infinity.

A garden fills my last desire,
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I never heard a song till you
came down to lay with me
and all of life I thought was mute,
the flowers in the park
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there once was a guy named Obama
who was definitely not into drama
conservatives hate him
and also berate him
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