Requitement Sought Poem by Mike Barrett

Requitement Sought



Deaf are your ears
Your eyes blind -
Yet no mute
Nor any sign of one!
Still
My words, my thoughts, my actions
Seen by you,
[ As seemed by me ]
Are nothings.

Nothings.
By nothing.
For nothing -
A chip of quartz on a sandy beach,
A blade of grass on a mansion's lawn,
A scale on a peacock's leg!

Blind you eyes
Or unseeing mine?
Deaf your ears
Or unhearing mine?
Opened your heart
But sealed mine?

Oh that this dam
Between us break -
Your soul solute
To mine solvent,
That they
Henceforth
In one phase state
Exist through time,
Inseparable!


© M. Barrett – all rights reserved

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I wrote this poem sometime in '64 or'65. It has the influence of my chemistry studies in the last paragraph. Science students may appreciate the blend of English and Chemistry!
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Mike Barrett 29 December 2013

Hi George, thanks for your comments, much appreciated. If you read more of my poems you'll find that they are not all free verse but that there is much spirituality flowing through them. Feel free to let others know of my work. I enjoy your writing and believe you'll have given us all many many poems by the time you reach my age. Cheers!

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George Price 29 December 2013

Thanks so much for your comment; sorry I didn't get back about your other comment (I didn't manage to spot it.) Your explanation for 100 words is rather wonderful, and quite ingenious. I love this, thank you for pointing me towards it. It seems very passionate and caring, and quite dedicated. I enjoyed it hugely. It's a little outside my usual reading; I quite like my poetry fluffy and sentimentalist, with pretty line meters and precision, but it's nice to be challenged with things like this occasionally. Free verse, quite rightly, always has a place; it has more heart than some poetry. All the best for the new year, George

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Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
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