soren Barrett Poems

The sun warms me
lighting the beauty all around
It's golden glory
Paints flowers of every shade and hue
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Spring rain wets the earth
bringing smells of things long dead
and new life to come
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A society of voyeurs
Pretend warriors
Living through another persons life
with the safety of a proxy
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Truths spill through the mouths of the mentally ill
To amend their political incorrectness we give them a pill
The entrance to heaven is through hell's door
If one wishes to be rich one must first be poor.
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Like two trees planted together
For fifty years side by side
Leaning on each other in foul or fair weather
Together grown and now abide
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Selfish? I never sold a fish in my life
Of course I'm self centered, if I wasn't I'd be off balance
And if I wasn't head strong, I'd be weak minded
You say I'm into myself, if I wasn't I'd be out of my mind
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We are all enslaved from birth to the grave
Life is a cruel master
Of all that we make nothing we can take
To where we go hereafter
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A stem bent with dew
kisses the lowest of all
but springs back anew
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Love comes in a whisper,
in a shout,
in the flash of fireworks,
in the slow building of layers of sediment
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A white cold blanket
my ears deafened with silence
the fresh scent of pines
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