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  Perfection?

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  Imagine a hidden sanctum A world where everything you want is Where the deepest desires of your heart are fulfilled But in doing so none others are In having what you crave most none others can or will And they are simply slaves to your whim Not you but your mind Your thoughts and needs Wh...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Tell me

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  When something breaks what does that make it Less than what it was Something new Is everything meant to be what it is Or do things happen for the sake of such When I am broken am I me Or am I born anew Am I the same but in need of fixing When life itself fragments Is it meant to be put toge...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Fragments

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  It was as grand as grand can be It was the world It was trust It was truth It was to be put simply Joy Every laugh Every moment Every feeling It was what is And that in itself was amazing But now Now your actions and words are against me Now your being is my hatred You SAY and may be...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Interstate Internothing Intereverything

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  I walk Along a road with nothing to my left With nothing to my right With just road stretched out before me And road stretched out behind At some points in my life the road itself stretches under me And I have no choice but to go But then at other times it doesn't But I still find myse...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  This Is Me

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  How do they usually start? The emotions simply flow out from me My advice My hurt My confusion It pours straight out And into words And with them comes more of what put out than in For with them comes the hope The ever dangling dream That they are the talent They are the gift One to cal...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  In only a Second

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  Do you know what you manage to do to me? And in only a second. You make me sweat. You give me joy. You bring out my happiness. You make me forget my fears You make me love my world If only for that moment You make me forget my troubles In only a second with you You clear my mind You make ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Last Time

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  And now it's finally time To write the one last poem To finally have enough Enough truth to show To show what I do feel Nothing but what is Just raw Just fear Fear for loss Fear that we may succeed Fear that you and I are Are we We did And will try to I want to You do We are no...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  To be or Not to be You

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  What do I want Of course what won't be given Or what isn't what I want Because what I want is what they want What it wants What no one really does want But what we are deluded into wanting Want What does it really mean A false joy An ever unsatisfied need? Because you can want ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Happy?

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  False and real joy Words on paper To show my face And the look of pure joy Excitement for something new Something rare Something undoing Something we want and crave Part of the circle Life...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Black Red Rose

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  Black red rose So many words to say So many hearts to prick Too many clouds of dusk Not enough light Far too much beauty Just the right amount of danger A blackened stem Ebony thorns Starch and sturdy alongside An eminent danger? Or a potential muse? A work of art? Or a sad soul's...
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  God Through Reason

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  Because the idea of that which a perfect being exists then so it must. God means such a perfect being. Therefore more than one God cannot logically exist in any fashion nor the concept of no God at all. More than one God would mean perfection over perfection; however, what is what is perfect cannot ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Will.

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  Not willing to give in To so much and everybody To all the status of the world Or to all the ideas and thoughts Gravitating to all But if you don't How will you make sense With fancy words? I don't know Finery can only get you so far Beauty can only hold you for so long Eventual...
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  Free Verse

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  The freedom of the mind One of the greatest Just like the galaxy Out in every direction Ever growing still You don't need to go straight Or back Or up Or down And more So much more Again like another Like life So many allusions and illusions So many barriers and bars Is this a w...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Word

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  For that one The one and only Not for attraction And for sure not for show Just for you The only one who matters Who wants for you and you them The one person who you are you to Who you never have to please But do so by simply being happy That you’d kill a man to see them in pain That ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  In a moments thought

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  What really is beauty But the deep hues and coloration of a painted wonder Or the pallet of words mashed upon paper outlining a clever thought Is it the shape of a beautiful face Or the rich crimson horizon of a summer sunset The color and scent of the autumn leaves and rusting wind Or the mil...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Beauty

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  Silence of the rising sun Awe filled sights of forgotten ranges A drop or water hurling towards the earth Soft waves lapping cool stone Lush fields of life blooming untamed Wild flowers bursting forth Stretching to the sun Grains of sand smoothing stones Rivers straining on the earth Breath...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Bindings..

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  And so a shroud Lays thick upon my neck Crawling up my brow And encasing my face Slowly shutting me out from the world Thick guttural darkness Sealing me away Creating a barrier and leaving Leaving me alone Surrounded by the blackness Everywhere I go In every room Of every day The b...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Truth of Travesty

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  Not the thought of worse Or a thought of better Nothing of the sort But much more simple Much much more To act and dam the consequence Practicing freedom The wind in my hair Open pastures splayed out before me No end Simply Steeples hills Non-trodden paths And pathless Open and free ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Veiled Mirror

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  I write this in the moonlight Alone perched amid a high top And I stare out Out into the sky Why does the sky cease to end to our eyes And why that when it does end It simply continues on in a new way And the moon Sitting idly by Casting light But what is this light but a mirror Yet witho...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Thorns Remain

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  The very worst. When seeing that you are nothing. When getting the grasp on the fact that you weren't given talent That you are not special No no one is an individual We are all the same Acting Living Hurting The same And not one can make it different They say God makes us special ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Stillness to the Silence

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  Sometimes life is long Sometimes life is rough Sometimes life can't handle Or tell when enough is enough I sometimes feel Like I need to be awaiting An action feeling or saying A need to be celebrating But life can't work this way Or at least it doesn't have to When you ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Sun God

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  Through the darkest of the night Dawn shall yet prevail Through the mercy of rest hours and into the dark Into the very deepest seats of life Tracking fear and evil back to the begin In a river of blood his vessel sails on Blond met fire and clashed to the heavens Through the carn and on to t...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Anger inside

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  What is what is truth Where are the values now hid Give what should be gave...
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  The Art

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  All can slap down words All can see not past false meaning The art of haiku...
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  Creation

  

  By lbbarlow125, Yonkers, NY

  Interest in what is Foundations the beginnings The way to live now...