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Best Barley Poems

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Premium Member The Sowing
Upon the wind sheltered hillside,
the sharp tang of metal and the sting of salt air lay
over a field of blood-red poppies, no Flanders Field.

At years...

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Categories: barley, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Colours of Poetry
Art is abstract
Art thrives with colours
Colours brighten faded coral
Colours highlight black
Black skies with silver stars
Black opal gemstones
Gemstones like amethyst
Gemstones of vivid ruby
Ruby roses and crimson...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barley, poetry,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member As Fields Become Barren
What has become of me?
Like a madman laughing in the rain,
wandering through fields of barley,
where ghosts whisper my name.

Hesitantly venturing forward,
reluctant to turn back,
loved ones...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barley, analogy, death,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Poem of Ruth
The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a...

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Categories: barley, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member - Every Breath You Take -
To get my heart in the right rhythm, I have to catch your inner you
Holding hands kiss colors inside sunshine warm paradise 

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Categories: barley, beauty, life, love, romance,
Form: Free verse



The Golden Dusty Days
Long gone are the golden
Dusty days!
Where once, like Blazons
On Armorial Shields,
The gathered bronze sheaths 
stood -
Cut through at the stalk...
Raised from time honoured
swathes.

Burnished like brushed...

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Categories: barley, autumn, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Celtic Dreams
Celtic Dreams

The Celtic dreams come forth through auric visions of an all-seeing eye. 
An ancient calling where the mystic rivers flow down a rugged mountain
while...

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Categories: barley, emotions, fantasy, feelings, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Every Breath You Take -
To get my heart in the right rhythm, I have to catch your inner you
Holding hands kiss colors inside sunshine warm paradise 

Together we share...

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Categories: barley, angel, beautiful, beauty, color,
Form: Couplet
It Was On a Kansas Farm
It was on a Kansas farm 
I saw the beauty and the charm
as I sat gazing out across the hills
Not a car or man in...

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© Gayle Rodd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barley, farm, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Celtic Dreams
The Celtic dreams come forth through auric visions of an all-seeing eye. 
An ancient calling where the mystic rivers flow down a rugged mountain
while Angels...

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Categories: barley, emotions, fantasy, feelings, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hickory Sunrise
The morning's first cup is sweetest, rich and hot, 
as I look through my kitchen window at the hickory.

The low branches will come off first.

Once...

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Categories: barley, autumn, childhood, imagery, nostalgia,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Christmas Clerihew
Dickens' Jacob Marley
favored drink made from barley,
died before Ebenezer,
that stingy old geezer....

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Categories: barley, humor,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Un Confit Pour Toi--A Sweet For You
Aimeriez vous une chevaline rouge 
Composée de sucre d’orge?
(would you like a red horse made of barley sugar?)
Vous pourriez faire la race de
Plaines aux tires...

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Categories: barley, fantasy, race,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sowing
Upon the wind sheltered hillside,
the sharp tang of metal and the sting of salt air lay
over a field of blood-red poppies, no Flanders Field.

At years...

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Categories: barley, irony, violence, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Fat Lady Has Sung
O harlot of colored scarlet hath divided the spoils
The wealthy, well oiled, prophesy uncertainty 
Thee measures of  barley spoil not the oil or wine
heavenly...

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Categories: barley, angst, faith,
Form: Elegy

Book: Shattered Sighs