Mike Barrett Poems

Here,
Come here
And sit with me
Beside this lake
...

Within
Our lives
As they unfold
We
...

There was
A bird
That sat
Within
...

Before
The beginning
The thought.
...

Like
A young bird
Fallen
From its nest
...

Deaf are your ears
Your eyes blind -
Yet no mute
Nor any sign of one!
...

He
Who believes
He is powerless
Is a weak Soul.
...

ON BEING ONE'S SELF

I have a friend
Who said to me,
...

Funny now - not then

Upper plate flushed down drain
...

Now
The ticking
Of a clock -
Now
...