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Best Barnes Poems

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So Many Books
There 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



Premium Member 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
Premium Member A Search, a Quest For a Lost Paradise - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
I 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
Premium Member A Search, a Quest For a Lost Paradise - a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
A 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
Premium Member Starbucks and Cookie
STARBUCKS 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



Premium Member 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 Meth
Dear 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?
Premium Member 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
Premium Member The Longing
THE 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
Premium Member I Need To Get Away
I 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
Premium Member My Major Award
I 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
Poor Poet
Embers were glowing in the furnace
                   ...

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Categories: barnes, fun, funny, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Blooming In My Mind
Good 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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© Stacey Law  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barnes, love, rose,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Storm Is Brewing
Look 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 Dream
Thomas 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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things