Pennies for the Guy
Heroes portrayed as traitors
History repeats
A dime has duality
Turn over the other side
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Tanka: ‘Remember, Remember’
Category: poems
Haiku: ‘Slow Reveal’
I don’t know what seems
Not what it appears to be
Slow reveal of truth
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Haiku: ‘Taken’
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Haiku: ‘Unsuspected’
Strange smells in the woods
Some unsuspected footprints
Twigs crack under foot
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
‘Dallas In Queen’s English’
Eleven
Twenty Two
Sixty Three
I think I recall
the BBC globe
in black and white,
a spinning duality.
The program inter-
ruption in Queen’s English
like a lightning strike;
Mother’s tears,
Dad’s ambivalence —
“Your blubbering
as if you knew him!”
What youngster could
comprehend?
Yet somehow I knew
a bright star had fallen
that November day
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Poetics – Stoddard, Longfellow and Bryant say hello! (What does November mean to you?)
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