Barry Middleton Poems

we will never find salvation
we never learn from our mistakes
a dark shadow follows us
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the shadow of life in the sunset
is washed in blood red light
and snake like tentacles of darkness
are growing over the land
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To make you laugh
and cry at once
was never my plan,
was only a hunch
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I sought the mountaintop
but I was valley trapped

I was mired in a province
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There must still be a lover's lane,
safely shaded in the hills,
where lovers go to hide the pain
the careless universe instills.
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The girl in blue upon the sand
intrigues me like this southern land.
She always smiles as if to say
that I could speak but words betray.
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Did witches meet a summer night
for rhythmic chants and easy rest
and were they at their very best
envisioning the sight?
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the tide is restless turning in its sleep
the rippled moon sits on the horizon
and in the eerie light
the dawn is not awake
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another year, another chance
another dance with circumstance

perhaps a kiss, perhaps a glance
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There is too much sorrow in this world,
too much for lamenting poets to describe,
too much to chronicle with weak words.
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