Barry Middleton Poems

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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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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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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the song I want to play
aches for harmony
but I will keep on singing
till life abandons me
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I am cursed like Sisyphus
my deceits were minor
and yet the gods conspired
to create my endless burden
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I spied the Grim Reaper
right behind my tree

I saw him
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she placed the rose carefully
into an onyx vase

a sprig of fern and greenery
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