Barry Middleton Poems

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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I wander far to seek and think,
and rarely find the answer I
was looking for, but often delve
another just as needful of
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Hundred of seasons have passed
beneath these majestic live oaks.
Men fought their insignificant duels here.
Men died here.
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I am stronger than the tornado
that destroyed my childhood home.
I am stronger than the seasons
that passed me on the road to nowhere.
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we surely miss a certain friend
who had that special glow
who now has moved so far away
we had to let her go
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it's spring and every male
is chasing a female

a blackbird break-dances
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dusk brings a memory
the smell of burning sawdust
the whistle of the lumber mill
at five o'clock
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I listen to the rain
it has a tale to tell
when I think all is lost
it whispers all is well
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had I the choice
death would be sudden
to free me from lingering
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A curse conceals the moon tonight.
We cannot see the shore.
The blackness settles over us.
The gods we must implore.
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