Category: poems

Haiku: Strength and Beauty

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Nature does know best
It cannot be defeated
Such strength through beauty

copyright Francis Barker 2020

Haiku: Fakery

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How could you do it?
I thought you were genuine
Wasted investment

copyright Francis Barker 2020

Haibun: Eye to Eye

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I wish we could agree.
Our difference of opinion
enflames the things unsaid.
So we skirt around the issue
whilst I remained perplexed:
Whatever happened to your
rebellious youth?
And why am I the radical?

Brainwashed opinion
Open mindedness thrown out
Worn out paradigm

copyright Francis Barker 2020

Haiku: Renaissance Now

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Who has the skill now?
Past mastery forgotten
A just renaissance

copyright Francis Barker 2020

Haibun: Ulysses in Chains

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I lied about reading Ulysses.
I started it, just didn’t get to the end.
I wanted to sound cool,
as if I understood Joyce’s intellect,
his significance in literature.

I day dream each day
Make out I am some hero
In truth I am snared

copyright Francis Barker 2020