Haiku: Precipice

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No one wants the truth
Make believe is far better
Fools stand on the edge

copyright Francis Barker 2019

Tanka: Ant Colony

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This ant colony
There’s no individual
No concept of hope
Freedom is an abstraction
Death is the only way out

copyright Francis Barker 2019

Haiku: Perennial War

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Let battle commence
The seed of all conflict
Hate of the ages

copyright Francis Barker 2019

Poem: Carpet the World

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Carpet the world in red
and those who like blue
will rage at your door.
Carpet the world in blue –
soon rabid hecklers arrive
to even the score.
Carpet the mind instead, wear
slippers of any colour on my feet.
I can do no more

copyright Francis Barker 2019

Haiku: Not One World

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There’s as many worlds
as there are minds to behold
The world is in me

copyright Francis Barker 2019