George Barker Hear Poems

  • 1.
    O Child beside the Waterfall
    what songs without a word
    rise from those waters like the call
    only a heart has heard-
    ...
  • 2.
    January jumps about
    in the frying pan
    trying to heat
    his frozen feet
    ...
  • 3.
    Not less light shall the gold and the green lie
    On the cyclonic curl and diamonded eye, than
    Love lay yesterday on the breast like a beast.
    Not less light shall God tread my maze of nerve
    ...
  • 4.
    The words are always as
    strange and dead as those
    fragments and oddments that
    the wave casts up on the shore:
    ...
  • 5.
    To the memory of my father

    At Thurgarton Church the sun
    burns the winter clouds over
    ...
  • 6.
    Against the eagled
    Hemisphere
    I lean my eager
    Editorial ear
    ...
Total 6 Hear Poems by George Barker

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jerome kohn: am seraching for a poem by George Barker with these verses:
I have been too long away from my domain
Too much pursued my own will-o-the whips
Against a stranger pillow
To think that destinations conver
the running sore of separation.


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All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Though brave its walls as any in the land,
And its tall turrets lift their heads in grace;
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