I saw and believed
I heard the word and was saved
It was the wrong guy
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Haiku: ‘Believing, Not Seeing’
Tag: words
One word Sunday: bright — View from the Back (Reblog)
Should I pick something that’s a bright colour or where the sun’s bright or both?  I’ve decided to join in with Debbie Smyth’s One Word Sunday challengeDebbie Smyth’s One Word Sunday challenge, largely because she sets them well in advance – always an advantage in my book. In addition, she’s a fantastic and inspirational […]
One word Sunday: bright — View from the Back
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?
Poem: Wordspiller (for Kit Marlowe) Updated
So you are the spiller of words, almost
as far from me as
Beowulf is to you.
Wordspiller, your crosspose outstands me,
but I backthink
the falling choirs where you sadwalked
your summerwaiting mind, to
when your glories were mere
airthought,
like the Greathallow who once
shorestepped there
to see for himself
your forliving Angles (he oncebethought
angels) and their saxon King
Ethelbert redeemed to newspells that
you mindweighed as truthless.
Now I meet your clearstead gaze; for
the muse which stretchfed you
has not alleaten you yet
poem © copyright Francis Barker 2012
Haiku: Narcissus
Words will break my bones
I must carpet the whole earth
Tainted reflection
copyright Francis Barker 2019
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