How could you do it?
I thought you were genuine
Wasted investment
copyright Francis Barker 2020
Haiku: Fakery
Tag: poems
Haibun: Eye to Eye
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
Who has the skill now?
Past mastery forgotten
A just renaissance
copyright Francis Barker 2020
Haibun: Ulysses in Chains
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
Haibun: God is Within
The 60s came and they declared You dead.
For a time many might have believed it.
But events transpiring ever since
have only convinced me that You are —
and always will be —
that still small voice inside.
Peace and love have gone
Division has gone viral
So I turn to You
copyright Francis Barker 2020
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