
We are turned to stone
Captives of all in between
Ourselves and the truth
Copyright Francis Barker 2020

We are turned to stone
Captives of all in between
Ourselves and the truth
Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Suddenly it’s green
Hope’s eternal spring is here
Hold all our lamps high
Haiku Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Tension pulling tight
Biblical headlines intrude
Life is in the breath
Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Someone’s made victims of us all
Played us for fools, so we’re left in their thrall
The beautiful world is stripped and bare
a mere shadow of what once was there.
But unlike some I do have hope
a guide in darkness through which I grope
There is another world we cannot quite see
where justice and love reign, forever free
Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Life’s not a movie
A film has become our life
Stop the projector
Copyright Francis Barker 2020