Haiku: True or False
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Fake news all around
Nothing new under the sun
But what is the sun?
copyright Francis Barker 2019
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Fake news all around
Haiku: North
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Staring at the north
where the sun will never reach
Fulcrom of the earth
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Poem: Back to the One
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You travel to earth’s extremities
while I plumb the greater depths of the mind
The world experience is merely that –
however far I go it all comes back to me
copyright Francis Barker 2019
Brexit, or no Brexit?
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Brexit or no Brexit: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the sins of outrageous politicians,
Or to pull the plug on that swamp of filth,
And by opposing drain it?
copyright Francis Barker 2019
Poem: Coffee Stains
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The coffee cup stains
don’t mean I’ve been working
The screwed up paper
doesn’t mean I’ve got no ideas
The smell of food cooking
means your meal’s on the table
copyright Francis Barker 2019
Haiku: November Woes
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Away November
You are death’s epitome
Harbinger of cold
copyright Francis Barker 2019
Poem: The Old Shed
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In my head I still make the journey
to your shed, to quiver at those
huge summer spiders and smell
the creosote and guano, to wonder
at your tools all cleaned and
oiled, a hanging display of your mind.
But now through this filthy
fissured window,
the late butter sun gleams low – and look
there she is, bent over,
with the tin bath I bathed in as a boy. And
there’s our washing to take in
copyright Francis Barker 2019
