Long Barrie Poems

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 of 1954.

Dad had joined...

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It 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...

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"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...

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.              Each year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of 
shopping for gifts for people that...

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“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...

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~ for J.M. Barrie ~


I’ll wait …

you know I will -
I’ll wait for you … here …
but not a single instant longer than forever
I’ll ply the puffy sky for the
breath of you
(for that world would...

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“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...

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Words 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...

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“To die … will be an awfully big adventure.”
       - J.M. Barrie
      
           ~

grown...

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Emblazoned 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...

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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...

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Welcome back,
It’s been a while
An invitation to Wine Pairing
I bet it brought a smile

Zevenvacht’s our wine
A farm from Stellenbosch
Meaning Seven Expectations
By golly, that sounds posh

I have some peeps
Tonight I must mention
Dom our good friend
Out spending...

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HE 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...

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It'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...

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Written 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,
 ...

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