Best Barrie Poems
Once Upon a Christmas 1954 - Part One - a Short Story From My MemoirEach year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already have everything, I find myself remembering that Christmas of 1954.
Dad had joined the army that year and we moved from the...
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Categories:
barrie, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
Birds“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
- J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
Robins, wrens, sparrows,
quivering, yet silent, still
on limbs and branches, boughs,
heavy with rustling leaves,
their feathers brilliantly flaunted,
in cloaks...
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Categories:
barrie, animal, bird, hope, joy,
Form:
Ode
Journey"To die would be an awfully big adventure!" - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Death
A grand
Adventure
God's gift to make
Each breath so precious
Life's sweet echo
Warm and dark
Like the
Womb.
~ 1st Place ~ in the "August Ninette" Poetry Contest, Caren Krutsinger, Judge & Sponsor....
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Categories:
barrie, adventure, appreciation, birth, death,
Form:
Ninette
Part Two- Gunshot Wound To the Heart- a Short Story From My Memoir - a Journey of Roses and ThornsIt was a hot summer day. Harry had stopped by Grandma's house and offered to take the two little girls down to the store and treat them to an ice-cream cone. Grandma, thinking this was his way of making amends for the last...
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Categories:
barrie, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
Armorial Bearings of My City LeedsEmblazoned on a metalic field
Leeds coat of arms displays an azore shield.
Upon a sable chief, this deep black bar,
Three mullets argent, silver stars.
On a chain of or, beneath the chief,
Hangs...
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Categories:
barrie, city,
Form:
Rhyme
Shrouded
"Shrouded"
found in the humanity
not in the divinity
many pilates
wash their hands
of this
long enough
for the clouds
to descend
then rise
fly away
criminal as charged
electric in the body
the mind already risen
the observer now crucified
takes notes
passionately
shrouded in the crowd
lux vitae let loose
through holes in the...
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Categories:
barrie, dark, light, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Springtime SwingsSpring is swinging blossoms blow, kissing waving.
Larks now rising flutter by, sweetly singing.
Flowers swaying dancing to natures embrace,
Gracefully sashays.
3/ 17/ 2015.
George Barrie Seal....
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Categories:
barrie, spring,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
It's All Change At CreweIt's all change at Crewe
Rollermakers flattened while riding Crewe's roller-coaster
The tea factory now shipping booze to the nation
chester barrie gone from cutting suits and is now selling flowers
British rail once built the engines and his now a train garage.
Rolls Royce a...
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Categories:
barrie, fun,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon a Christmas 1954 Part 1. Each year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of
shopping for gifts for people that already have everything, I find myself remembering that
Christmas...
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Categories:
barrie, family, happiness, loveschool, dad,
Form:
Narrative
Play-A Romantic AdventureWritten by the hands,
Of James Matthew Barrie.
Came a remarkable play,
Of four kids and a fairy.
Of a boy named Peter,
Who took Wendy by the hand.
Leading her and her brothers,
To the magic of Neverland.
With childish innocence,
Written in...
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Categories:
barrie, adventure, childhood
Form:
Ekphrasis
Gone For NowWords hurt like fire burning inside your body
Spitting out ashes through your eyes
Water is building up inside my lungs
Drowning in reality
Being with you hurts
Around you it aches
I bruise easily
Your words are like knives
stabbing
Ripping out my guts
Sorrow...
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Categories:
barrie, family, farewell, mom,
Form:
Free verse
Straight On“To die … will be an awfully big adventure.”
- J.M. Barrie
~
grown gray, had I, with stiffened bones
the pains and aches that...
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Categories:
barrie, adventure, analogy, death, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Iho - the Survivors
A catastrophic tornado on a path of destruction,
hit Barrie, Canada July 15th at 230pm, Thursday;
high winds took roofs, and trees like a great suction.
windows blown out, vehicles overturned, debris filled the streets.
All the people could do was hide in basements and pray,
after dazed homeowners...
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Categories:
barrie, natural disasters,
Form:
Rhyme
A Conversation With Peter Pan“It’s very good to meet you,
You look younger than expected,
But guess that’s always likely,
When your status is protected?”
“Yes it’s good to meet you,
Of course I seem just a pup,
I’m bound to look a youngster,
Cos I never will grow up!”
“I heard that you can fly as...
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Categories:
barrie, character,
Form:
Rhyme
Hold Me DownHE SAID WE COME FROM TWO DIFFERENT PLACES.
HE PUTS ON SO MANY FACES.
SO MUCH LOVE A LETTER ERASES.
WE WERE TOGETHER FOREVER.
NOW ITS LIKE IT WAS NEVER.
HE WAS SO SWEET.
TEERS BARRIE MY FEET.
I FEEL PAIN WITH EVERY HEARBEAT.
WHAT CAN I DO?
IM BROKEN IN TWO.
SO MANY THINGS...
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Categories:
barrie, life, loss, lost love,
Form: