Barneyb

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Barneyb
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  May 2021     6 months ago

Submitted Poems 3 total

Love bade me welcome...

Love bade me welcome but
Am I worthy to be near?
‘Draw near to me’
Love said, ‘You shall be me
And I shall serve’.
'I have your heart,
but you have my...

by Richard Barnes

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In the final hour of the day,

In the final hour of the day,
The light beams across walls.
The light fades into things
this body does not know.
A trace of fading light
Before it dies sets free
Dreams of what was,
What could have been or
Will be, for self
Dreams, maybe...

by Richard Barnes

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added 8 months ago
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Blank stares of fallen...

Blank stares of fallen
And disgraced heroes
Standing in bread lines for scraps
Of a life they once knew.

Cardboard condos dot
A landscape of litter that show the
Rips and tears of our social order.
Souls running into burning...

by Richard Barnes

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added 2 years ago
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