Barbara Nixon

Light extinguished, glimmer defeated,
spread across my heart, a sacred scar
the oxygen of time a cliched healer,
locked in a cage my joy hath retreated.
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Magician Of My Yesterday

I have witnessed thine every colour
hues that blend and merge
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The colour orange
has become the new black
graces the pavements
adorns stark cul de sacs.
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Amethyst,
Oh purple blaze
like a garden of violets
in Summer's sweet haze
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There's an undercurrent of change sweeping city and dale

a quiet awakening of old secrets buried deep,
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Over thirty years we've been acquainted

it seems I know you less and less,
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On a dew kissed rock a man sat and listened
to the rhythmic murmur of the brook
its smooth meandering pathway
hypnotic caw of nesting rook
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Not from the wombs of crashed meteorites
infinitesimal bacteria propagating life
random collision, accidental fusion
challenging the belief of sentient vision.
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A politic, a religion.
a trigger, a boot
mindless intentions,
fuelled by hate,
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All the tell tale signs

a mother always knows
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A guest uninvited
holds residence in the temple
crept silently with feline stealth
as it slid between the mantel.
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Illusion of progress

the passage of time
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A heavenly harmonic, a celestial chord

permeates our reality through a paperlike gauze,
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Past the point of no return

dreamland that once beckoned
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My once impenetrable refuge, my Inner Sanctum,

Invaded and defiled,
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Cherub faces

born knowing
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To inhale each breath from a peaceful harbour
embracing life's ether in a woe laden heart
releasing old fears, making peace with sparring demons
accepting vulnerability, shedding life's armour.
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Reliving old memories
movie reel in constant loop
drowns the thundering silence
screaming through the walls,
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The Move

Biting, squalid, pitch hued November morn,
concrete pavement, hopscotch feet
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Never did fit in to the restrictive box
corners too rigid, angles too sharp
hard and unyielding, no space to soar
crushing pressure on the spirit
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