Poem: Hope in Darkness

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

Haiku: Movie World

Life’s not a movie

A film has become our life

Stop the projector

Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Haiku: Dystopia

Dystopian world

Inured to horror and greed

The dawn surely breaks

Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Haiku: Nature Knows

Nature knows it all

Nature is a miracle

Blindfolds optional

Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Haiku: Heaven’s Angels

Up in the clear blue

Heaven awaits its angels

Nothing can prepare

Copyright Francis Barker 2020