Best Barriers Poems

Love is all embracing,
Pure and sublime
Which flows and keeps flowing
Like a never ending stream;
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How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer,
wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns.
How much better to cruise these local, familiar streets,
fully grasping the meaning of every roadsign and billboard
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Name, my Laura, name the whirl-compelling
Bodies to unite in one blest whole--
Name, my Laura, name the wondrous magic
By which soul rejoins its kindred soul!
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Rintrah roars and shakes his
fires in the burdenM air,
Hungry clouds swag on the deep.
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In a wayward adventure in curiosity —
lured away from savvy of cooler judgment,  
he oversteps the bounds of reality 
into a state of altered awareness.
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Fear death?---to feel the fog in my throat,
The mist in my face,
When the snows begin, and the blasts denote
I am nearing the place,
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All actors look for them-the defining moments
When what a character does is what he is.
The script may say, He goes to the door
And exits or She goes out the door stage left.
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Sicut Patribus, sit Deus Nobis)

The rocky nook with hilltops three
Looked eastward from the farms,
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I want to give you something, my child, for we are drifting in the
stream of the world.
Our lives will be carried apart, and our love forgotten.
But I am not so foolish as to hope that I could buy your heart
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love has no age face and no barriers,
Its like the sun and the moon,
It’s like the day and night,
It’s like the seasons,
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In her eyes
did you see
the long lavender look of goodbye?
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Pan head
My pan head
Mine you are
And Yours I am
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Hii’s, Hellos, Heys, sweet serenades,
Burn them, the cinerary will show
They have no meaning.
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The blessed damozel lean'd out
From the gold bar of Heaven;
Her eyes were deeper than the depth
Of waters still'd at even;
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‘I give you half of me;
No more, lest I should make
A ground for perjury.
For your sake, for my sake,
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I
MILES STANDISH

In the Old Colony days, in Plymouth the land of the Pilgrims
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With what a childish and short-sighted sense
Fear seeks for safety; recons up the days
Of danger and escape, the hours and ways
Of death; it breathless flies the pestilence;
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From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done
In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale,
Whom Arthur and his knighthood called The Pure,
Had passed into the silent life of prayer,
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As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage,
Man's mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells --
That bird beyond the remembering h{'i}s free fells;
This in drudgery, day-labouring-out life's age.
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DEDICATION

Of great limbs gone to chaos,
A great face turned to night--
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THIS last denial of my faith,
Thou, solemn Priest, hast heard;
And, though upon my bed of death,
I call not back a word.
Point not to thy Madonna, Priest,­
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I.
Come, blue-eyed maid of heaven!-but thou, alas!
Didst never yet one mortal song inspire-
Goddess of Wisdom! here thy temple was
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Say, Valiant,
Say: High is my head!

Looking at my head
Is cast down the great Himalayan peak!
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I
I have loved England, dearly and deeply,
Since that first morning, shining and pure,
The white cliffs of Dover I saw rising steeply
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I am a doctor!
Nay! May be a miner!
Some call me a burglar
And some as scavenger
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Good men never
Build battlefields
They create and
Nurture families.
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My heart eager for things unknown
Unknown but wanted but needed
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Love,
is a twisted game of words.
Defined by the actions we speak,
I know of no way to compromise
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Frown ever opposite, the angel cried,
Who, with an earthquake's might and giant hand,
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Hey Gagarin, devourer of Space,
I come, a wayfarer, get off my tracks!
Yield today
to my moral concerns,
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Beautiful is the moon, just before
The night of full moon. Specially if
One can watch it late at night or
Early morning in the western sky.
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Beatiest of beats let me address you
as you America. Let me bless you
charleychaplin poet that you are
like Ferlinghetti spreadeagled in air
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While crowds of princes your deserts proclaim,
Proud in their number to enrol your name;
While emperors to you commit their cause,
And Anna's praises crown the vast applause;
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Far yet near,
Near yet far…
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Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood
Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round,
At Camelot, high above the yellowing woods,
Danced like a wither'd leaf before the hall.
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VISION 2020: COMBINED VISION OF FOUR GENERATIONS

(This is not a poem, but a thought process)
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In far off old forgotten days.
On the trail of ponderous ways.
Took to bed and flew away.
A journey vivid to this day.
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Love has no season
It is not bound by Spring or Fall
Love is not bound by age
Or barriers of any kind
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I.
The sun is set; the swallows are asleep;
The bats are flitting fast in the gray air;
The slow soft toads out of damp corners creep,
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A kiss, becomes a pact between two souls,
penetrating barriers that shy doubt patrols.
for surely not one earthly joy exists,
to bring such utter comfort like a kiss.
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Truth never held by barriers
Finds a way to rush out
The same truth sets barriers
Between friends, turning them lout
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The restaurants on hot spring evenings
Lie under a dense and savage air.
Foul drafts and hoots from dunken revelers
Contaminate the thoroughfare.
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YE powers fantastic ! goblin, sylph and fay,
Whose subtle forms no laws material sway ;
Ethereal essences, that dart and glide
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'DARK gathering clouds involve the threatening skies,
The sea heaves conscious of the impending gloom,
Deep, hollow murmurs from the cliffs arise;
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LIKE the vulture
Who on heavy morning clouds
With gentle wing reposing
Looks for his prey,--
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Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we, that have not seen thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove;
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Midway his upward unavailing course
Sate Sisyphus, his back against his load,
Halting a moment from that task of doom.
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COLOSSAL orb of space,
Sparkling with diamond
Of countless star on star,
All whirling with wild grace
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These are the gardens of the Desert, these
The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful,
For which the speech of England has no name--
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HAIL Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!
Not dull art Thou as undiscerning Night;
But studious only to remove from sight
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Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood
Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round,
At Camelot, high above the yellowing woods,
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Flecks of joy flick through bounty of beauty
blessing slips over grin sparking over stone
as moonlit flits across the darkness of door
soul awakes by eternity in ages and eons
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You are the mortal goddess, Oh! Present,
Of the stupendous ocean of immortal time.
Though devoid of power for granting boon
Worshipped dedicatedly and devotedly
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Will then, Duperrier, thy sorrow be eternal?
And shall the sad discourse
Whispered within thy heart, by tenderness paternal,
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I celebrate

My nation suffers from suffocation
It needs rejuvenation
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I

Prince of Bards was old Aneurin;
He the grand Gododin sang;
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In the burgh of Kharkov-
bursting hail.
Big hail,
big as grape,
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The day was here when it was his to know
How fared the barriers he had built between
His triumph and his enemies unseen,
For them to undermine and overthrow;
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May I splinter away from myself
break into whole units
and
live in each with perfection!
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Yet in those ashes on the Pharian shore,
In that small heap of dust, was not confined
So great a shade; but from the limbs half burnt
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Adventure of romantic love offers opportunity to lovers
Enjoy heavenly pleasure to the level of the Universe and
Come down to the garden of paradise on the Earth to live
Human life best against all barriers with courage high!
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II est de forts parfums pour qui toute matière
Est poreuse. On dirait qu'ils pénètrent le verre.
En ouvrant un coffret venu de l'Orient
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Our boat is asleep on Serchio's stream,
Its sails are folded like thoughts in a dream,
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l. 1327) Then our Lord said unto Noah:

(ll. 1328-1355) "I give thee My pledge, dearest of men, that thou
mayest go thy way, thou and the seed of every living thing which
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‘So tell me, Michael…’
the voice is slow and measured,
that of one used to public speaking,
his words so significant that the audience
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Why, State, your eyes don’t see the Amazon River?
Tsiko said 'Amazon is life' and you agreed to save it.
Why the horsemen of interests invaded in the night?
Their bullet entered Tsiko’s chest but invades your own.
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Not vainly did old poets tell,
Nor vainly did old genius paint
God's great and crowning miracle,
The hero and the saint!
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BROTHERS, whom we may not reach
Through the veil of alien speech,
Welcome! welcome! eyes can tell
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The snow has ceased its fluttering flight,
The wind sunk to a whisper light,
An ominous stillness fills the night,
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O languid yesterday,
Step into tomorrow's gloom,
Happiness is short lived,
I could not break the barriers
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I

Flat as to an eagle's eye,
Earth hung under Attila.
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I am an Indian poet in English!
How long shall I wear this elegant
garland? Can I even put it down?
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But Sleep, who makes a mist about the sense,
Doth ope the eyelids of the soul, and thence
Lifteth a heavier cloud than that whereby
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All praise to Allah, all glory to Him.
Let peace prevail and equality win,
let truth reign supreme,
let all unhappiness and misery,
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Semantics say much of what humans have created for communication with themselves and others. They only need to dissect and de-vowel, apply given nouns to their chosen adjectives. Some making more sense than when construed to define innocent verbiage of denial and with encoded killing purpose of intent.

Acceleration makes haste where risk is taken to achieve wasteful goals that reach far beyond the muscle and brawn of evolved human male ability. Life is often said to be short and so we've created many means to live it in the proverbial fast lane, crashing into all others who get in their, each other's way.
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Flecks of joy flick through bounty of beauty
blessing slips over grin sparking over stone
as moonlit flits across the darkness of door
soul awakes by eternity in ages and eons
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The old grey year is near his term in sooth,
And now with backward eye and soft-laid palm
Awakens to a golden dream of youth,
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It’s after midnight,
and the snow is unmarred,
free from angels and stomping feet.
The flakes that fall are like
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Flowers grow in the grass,
Baby footfalls pass
Over the fields once red,
Over the hero's head—
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Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered,
Where I had seven sons until to-day,
A little hill of hay your spur has scattered. . . .
This is not Paris. You have lost your way.
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When loving is reduced to contract
Meaning to avoid loneliness
For a happy living and striving
Illusory phantasms to seduce
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The book unfolding, the resplendent seat
Of saints and angels, the tremendous fate
Of guilty souls, the gloomy realms of woe,
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I.
Yonder, with eyes that tears, not distance, dim,
With ears the wide world's thickness cannot daunt,
We see tumultuous miseries that haunt
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December 17, l807 - September 7, 1892
THOU, too, hast left us. While with heads bowed low,
And sorrowing hearts, we mourned our summer's dead,
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Ay, this is freedom!--these pure skies
Were never stained with village smoke:
The fragrant wind, that through them flies,
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Much malice, mingled with a little wit,
Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ;
Because the muse has peopled Caledon
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I
Call it not vain;-they do not err,
Who say, that when the Poet dies,
Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,
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Even as one voice the great sea sang. From out
The green heart of the waters round about,
Welled as a bubbling fountain silverly
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The scenes are desert now, and bare,
Where flourished once a forest fair
When these waste glens with copse were lined,
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I wish my flowing tears; stood witness,
to a crashing loneliness, in this cess.
O'had we not made a forsaken start,
and none had bet for a broken heart.
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Sometimes I keep on building high walls around me
Not to keep myself away
But to see who cares enough to break them all
Who cares enough to make them fall
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Thou unrelenting Past!
Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain,
And fetters, sure and fast,
Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign.
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No not to-night, dear child; I cannot go;
I'm busy, tired; they knew I should not come;
you do not need me there. Dear, be content,
and take your pleasure; you shall tell me of it.
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There is a region in the World
Which has no boundaries
Nor barriers either physical or mental
Restricting the passage of pilgrims
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WHEN dreaming kings, at odds with swift paced time,
Would strike that banner down,
A nobler knight than ever writ or rhyme
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Shadows cry in loneliness this day...
As dusk peeks in, for but a short while
No sanctuary for the immigrants of noon-just yet
Soon darkness arrives with no denial;
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how could i speak their languages
how could i..she asks her dad
what about mine?
how could i speak a different
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Born in eighteen,
Brought up in nineteen,
Brilliant in twenty,
You remain evergreen,
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Love knows no boundaries yet lacks conviction
Wondering why the sea is noisy yet so calm
Shore allows waves to touch and back they go
Sand watch helplessly as none applies balm.
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Francesca

Crush'd and throng'd are all the places
In our amphitheatre,
'Midst a sea of swarming faces
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