Barry Middleton Poems

in woods upon a moonless night
I lose myself

and just before the dark sets in
...

My childhood ramblings were so long ago,
and time obscures the traces of the past.
The sun no longer burns in afterglow,
but leaves a mark that always tends to last.
...

I hear the beating wings,
leather clad with scales of fire,
the dragon circling the earth.
Within a steel gray cloud,
...

If only dreams could meet the day,
and love could settle on the earth,
then I would surely know the way,
to hold the only prize of worth.
...

I'd like to be
in the middle of somewhere
away from this crazy world
...

a soldier dies on foreign soil
regardless how the just might toil
the eons pass but man cannot break free
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yes I would send a warning to the sky
to bring a rain to quench desire
the clouds are cruel and mute
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there is never enough time
for anything or anyone you love

as we grow old regret sets in
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there was a land of innocence
that I left long ago
where fantasy fulfilled desire
a place I used to know
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the storm took away my memories
I would return but there is nothing there
the house is crushed like an eggshell
the trees I knew salvaged for the fire
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