Haiku: Walk Don’t Walk

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So do as I say
ignore what I am doing
No hypocrisy

copyright Francis Barker 2019

Haiku: The Waiting Game

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Sitting on our hands
Waiting for the clouds to clear
How long must we wait?

copyright Francis Barker 2019

Haiku: No Side

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Gallery of rogues
You call this democracy?
In which universe?

copyright Francis Barker 2019

Haiku: Advent

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Save us from ourselves
Cut short this time of crisis
Heaven opens up

copyright Francis Barker 2019

Poem: Red Dress (Distant Thunder)

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Got me in a fix again, I see
a white rider in the sky.
Mesa mountain and inselberg draw me
where no avatar can lie.

I got a seat on a wagon train for free,
hazel eyes stare back in fright.
Overhead the milky way guides me,
sacred spirit of the night.

By the dirt house, all in patient pose;
a prairie wind blows her dress.
Devil sun and skull of buffalo,
red is grey where none confess.

Harvest in, piece of grass in my lips,
shadow birds cross amber sky.
She’s here – drops the dress to her hips –
the nest of red where we’ll lie

copyright Francis Barker 2019