Category: poetry

Tanka: Light of the World

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We watch you salute
The rest of us are crying
A light has gone out
The riderless horse breaks free
His saddle is refitted

 

copyright Francis Barker 2020

Haiku: Coalescence

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Birds like random thoughts
Squawking right over my head
Ideas coalesce

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Music Box – ‘Llwyn Onn’ ( ‘The Ash Grove’ ) – Côr Meibion Treorci – Treorchy Male Voice Choir — Art, Photography and Poetry

Famous Welsh Folk Song/ Cân Traddodiadol Cymraeg Geiriau/ Lyrics: Yn Nyffryn Llwyn Onn draw mi welais hardd feinwenA minnau’n hamddena ‘rol byw ar y don;Gwyn ewyn y lli oedd ei gwisg, a disgleirwenA’r glasfor oedd llygaid Gwen harddaf Llwyn Onn.A ninnau’n rhodiana drwy’r lonydd i’r banna,Sibrydem i’n gilydd gyfrinach byd serch;A phan ddaeth hi’n adeg […]

via Music Box – ‘Llwyn Onn’ ( ‘The Ash Grove’ ) – Côr Meibion Treorci – Treorchy Male Voice Choir — Art, Photography and Poetry

Tanka: Dream of Generations

white and pink flowers beside a canister
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Once we had a dream
We believed the world could change
But the good died young
Generations have suffered
The untold and the unknown

copyright Francis Barker 2020

Tanka: Missing A Miracle

job print on book
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Mysterious ways
Living in a miracle
Life can make us blind
Each day we awake is new
Attune to our Creator

copyright Francis Barker 2020