Short Barricaded Poems

She is not barricaded faith
Nor is she candlelit belief
She is not invisible
Although she is unseen

10/28/20...

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Barricaded in cellars
as falsehoods rock the landscape

Truth sequestered, fragments
  ~ devolution to the Age of Apes...

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Alone, barricaded can disrupt everyone for great, hours instantly jacking killers lives moving near openings, people questioning; resistance, strayed, torn. Universe versus war, x-raying yonder zest....

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Barricaded smiles of no potential 
passage                                                                                                                           
 
I guess I’m gonna have to steal my kisses...

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There once was a highly strung society maid.
Whose sole important passion was being afraid.
She spent twenty-three years inside,
From all kinds of people she'd hide.
Barricaded by choices few others have made....

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I wiped a tear from my eye
      Didn't know I still could cry

    Thought I was too jaded
      My heart, near barricaded...

    Today I saw an Arab hug a Jew
      Enemies back in '72

    Forgotten now, what caused their hate
      ~ We humans are all soul mates...

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through so many slamming bangs
on the other side of that barricaded
locked closet door my tongue has bled dry
from pain too hard to swallow
face to the wind sweet winged dreamer
rise and soar in freedom
savor the knowledge of choice 
enjoy the precious moments of too short
flight...

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Before morning sun,

Judas sold God’s son.

For the resurrection reminds us all of when,

Jesus Christ of Nazareth was crucified for our sins.

Then he was placed and encased in a tomb,

Lifeless, Jesus resumed.

Three days he laid alone,

Barricaded by a stone.

While everyone mourned,

Jesus rose on Easter morn.
________________
-For Brian’s contest-...

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As dusk approached with the silence but numerous thoughts,
The clouds when barricaded the crescent moon,
The emptiness around soul burst out in form of tears,
The divinity around faded under the uproar,
Then thoughts are crawling in head,
The pinnacle of unrest and terror,
Is when life beneath this skin flesh and bones seeking the arrival of rays of light, and the arrival of The Sun!...

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She is not conflicted youth
Nor is she wisdom's solace
She is not untroubled virtue
Nor aloof neglect
She is not the condemned's justice
Or the penitent's salvation

She is not barricaded faith
Nor is she candlelit belief
She is not invisible
Although she is unseen

She is not pity's allurement
Nor is she pride, unshamed
She is but a cold gravestone's
Crumbled, abandoned name.

8/09/19...

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Closed off halls of my heart,
how locks long to open;
I know they are starving 
fueled by foolish half smiles;
Is it worth believing? 

Closed off halls of my heart,
barricaded so tight
ignoring every need;
Ridden with painful shots,
arrows will always bleed;

Closed off halls of my heart,
a sure hand ran me through;
Broke them into pieces;
I’m fearful of the pain 
yet desire blood splatter....

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In the Trenches, In Love


Digging deep, entrenched,
barricaded against love's bayonet,
securing the heart,
impregnable, shielded,

but,
love breaches the lines.

The defences crumble,
walls of steel melt away,
shields are lowered, 
minefields disappear,

as,
love overwhelms the night.


Alone now, desolate, exposed,
my embattled heart lies injured,
the fatal blow being dealt by you,

in the trenches, in love....

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On-Sight
There aren't many who see me-
Those few view me in the 
             Words they say
"speak" me when they 
             Glance away
Their inner ear "attuned"
Their "knowings" seek invitation
To an inner, sacred place
Long ago barricaded from
"Exploitative" desires-I can
Not promise entry-
I LIVE here, and must protect my space.
              Still; there are
                               a few......

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I smoke a blunt
barricaded from the harsh sunlight
by a striped canopy.

You're taking a shower,
I daydream of full-length mirrors,
and soapy brown skin.

The post card in my hand
depicts the Roman Colosseum.
Gladiators are still hopelessly fighting time.

It's 1985
the world, as usual,
spins on like a tossed coin.

Make love while you can.
Find the lady in the shower,
wherever she is,

don't just sit there!

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Me and God Are Related

There must be way  this can be translated;
May have waited for a while and hesitated;
Did take chance;
Knew in advance,
You can consider God and I closely related.

Jim Horn

My Life Had Been Barricaded

While I waded and deal we did was shaded, 
Sins came down on me and had cascaded;
Then saw sturgeon
That did burgeon;
Can be seen in my hair that is badly braided.

Jim Horn
Over ten again...

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U nreasonable demand...." Poetry soup or me!"

L ove is not controlling, that I can guarantee

T roubling is your unpredictable demeanor

I llogical thinking, needed was an intervenor 

M anipulation one of your most deplorable traits

A busive verbally, you barricaded all debates

T houghtless trying to quell my poetry passion

U ncomprehending, you are without compassion

M istreated no more, I finally stood up for me!...

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try to guess my age
im not in the nomenclature
homeostasis the focus
of uncommon creatures
personality a drama
with Rome's creators
im not so quick 
to pick a person's savior
encourage till my epitaph
life outside the bed and bath
bless the spirits im a philomath
the chaos just beyond
fingertips

hit or miss 
a linguist 
still insists

a singers wish

a single fist
aerated 
the narration
a basement
where ignorance
is barricaded

with a fire at the station...

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