Best Barnes Poems
Below are the all-time best Barnes poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of barnes poems written by PoetrySoup members
So Many BooksThere were so many books at Barnes and Noble’s
That I wanted to buy but I wasn’t able
Up at the counter with my chin in my...
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Categories:
barnes, books, change,
Form:
Quatrain
Poets Are Us
"Poets are Us"
The blood dripped
off each piranha's
sharpened fang
acquiescing
compliant
with tragic complacency
keep it neat and clean
within the margins
no detours
stick like Teflon
to the...
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Categories:
barnes, dark, humor, poets,
Form:
Free verse
A Search, a Quest For a Lost Paradise - a Collaboration With Robert LindleyI will take flight, into another zone
how far off to wander 'tis now not known
no regret, as dear point is to be free
beyond sadness, into...
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Categories:
barnes, appreciation, beauty, freedom, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
A Search, a Quest For a Lost Paradise - a Collaboration With Susan AshleyA Search, A Quest For A Lost Paradise -
a collaboration with Susan Ashley
I will take flight, into another zone
how far off to wander 'tis...
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Categories:
barnes, art, beauty, color, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Starbucks and CookieSTARBUCKS AND COOKIE
I sit in Barnes and Noble
Looking at the figure-display over the snack bar
Oh how out-of-place in time ...
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Categories:
barnes, life, people
Form:
Narrative
My Children Have Beautiful Eyes- -I have a child;
I have some children;
And though I didn't
Didn't co create them;
Always be there when they cry;
My children have beautiful eyes;
I choose to...
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Categories:
barnes, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, children,
Form:
Lyric
Dear MethDear Meth, this is my letter to you and to inform the world, how I thought you were my boy, I thought that I was...
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Categories:
barnes, recovery from..., me, girl,
Form:
I do not know?
What a Friend Should Be (A Tribute To John Barns)My friend John Barnes is as special as can be.
When it comes to friends God sure blessed me.
There are some things we lose, while others...
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Categories:
barnes, friendship, inspirational, introspection, lifefriend,
Form:
Couplet
The LongingTHE LONGING
To be innocent is to be entirely unknown, even to oneself.
- Djuna Barnes
I am free at last to be silent, to lap
In the quiet...
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Categories:
barnes, blessing, creation, grief,
Form:
Sonnet
I Need To Get AwayI really would like to just vanish and disappear
Run far away, to an abandoned village or a deserted town or a forest in the middle...
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Categories:
barnes, adventure, freedom, imagination, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
My Major AwardI awoke this morning to a delightful surprise!
My librarian called to say that I'd won First Prize,
For a poem I entered in her poetry contest...
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Categories:
barnes, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
barnes, fun, funny, nonsense,
Form:
Limerick
Blooming In My MindGood morning sunshine! I do wake
I speak with drowsiness slurring words
Stimulated by the daybreak and prominent hues
I talk! You listen! For heavens sake!
Some days I...
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Categories:
barnes, love, rose,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Storm Is BrewingLook out!
Here she comes again
From South to North -
A quiet storm
On stage, on April 21st
At Barnes & Noble,
Union Square, New York City
330 East, 18th Street
4th...
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Categories:
barnes, community, courage, encouraging, inspirational,
Form:
Bio
My DreamThomas Hardy the Poet, spoke with me last night,
Speaking of his thoughts, as I sat in bed upright,
Though twas in a dream, I never thought...
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Categories:
barnes, dream, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme