Angelic voices
Clearing skies reveal the sun
Silent sheep await
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Haiku: ‘Advent’
Tag: sheep
Poem: Stop Being So Nice
Kindly disposed
I blunder into scams and swindles.
Look, I wouldn’t wish to demonise wolves
for merely following their instinct to survive;
and I shall be a sheep no more.
Let’s say it how it is and I will respond in kind,
without kind words and flattery.
Put simply, I asked you to do something,
so would you be so kind as to complete it?
Milly Reynolds’ first book, ‘The Woolly Murders’
The prologue and first chapter of Milly Reynolds’ first book, The Woolly Murders.
Haiku: Sheep
The sheep are not dumb
Though they are easily led
So choose wise leaders
copyright Francis Barker 2020
Poem: Blindfolds
There is no crisis
that’s never been made, no war
we’ve ever had to join. Why
don’t you stop! – look
at what you’re doing? Don’t
accept it,
turn off the TV and ignore
the paper headlines stacked
in front of you, they lead you into their
traps,
their pigeon-holes.
What are you? Can a jackass
stare back from the mirror? Even
gods call you sheep, creatures who
need to be brought in – whoever said
this
should be so? The more I say no, each
time you refuse to
toe the line, so much sooner
you and I become us
and then we
© copyright David F. Barker 2013
I am not a pacifist, but most conflict is avoidable.
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