Barricades Poems - Poems about Barricades

Maybe among so many barricades I could hold, I was born to be read once and never to be read again. To be glanced at but never to turn heads. To be a writer and never to be the one written about. To immortalize the beauty I find in them, but only to fall under the shadows of my mortality. Perhaps...

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Perhaps among all the barricades I could have held, I was born to be read once and never to be opened again. To be glanced at in passing, but never the one who turns heads. To be a writer and never the one written about. To immortalize the beauty I find in others, But only to fall under the shadows...

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Barricades Or Bridges? By Miracle Man 6/13/2024 All believers we’re appointed, to be God’s witness. By our words and actions, we will prove our fitness. To our friends, family, and to a lost and hurting nation. Our witness light should shine, toward all of God’s creation. ...

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Maybe among so many barricades that protect my heart, I was born to be read once and then locked away for eternity. To be just a fleeting glance, a passing shadow, never the one that turns heads. To be the writer who delicately weaves words, but never the subject of writing. To immortalize the hidden beauty in others, while...

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I wiped a tear from my eye Didn't know I still could cry Thought I was too jaded My heart, near barricaded... Today I saw an Arab hug a Jew Enemies back in '72 ...

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Why do flowers have such color and charm, The sky is blue: the woolly clouds march past Au revoir to the day. To memories of unconquered Problems and market struggles that avail us naught. We retire to rest and the stars shine and a moon Comes on more often to share our sleepless nights. The race is...

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I tell you it’s been stolen and I have the evidence. Don’t you even argue, you can trust my great defense. How do I know you ask again? Because I told you so. Raise the banner, chant the chant, it’s finally time to go. Yes we lost in every court, but pay that fact no mind. Keep repeating...

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We join the public social functions To fill our time with emptiness, And list our names with organizations To barricade ourselves from loneliness. We surround ourselves with similar faces, Acquaintances forgotten when out of view; They neither know our names nor places-- The friends we have are all too few. We build our concrete dams of silence, As if the passing time we could...

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In the daily scheme of days Where fit and bold survive Solitude is one’s chief intent In our plan to stay alive People often find themselves Apart and separated Aloof and almost all alone Their link with life negated They are in a neutral place But when there’s storm or strife They get behind a barricade And live an empty life Keeping their lonely heart intact Their fingers...

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