George Barker Love Poems

• 1. Sonnet To My Mother
  Most near, most dear, most loved, and most far,
  Under the huge window where I often found her
  Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter,
  Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand,
  ...
• 2. January Jumps About
  January jumps about
  in the frying pan
  trying to heat
  his frozen feet
  ...
• 3. Summer Song
  I looked into my heart to write
  And found a desert there.
  But when I looked again I heard
  Howling and proud in every word
  ...
• 4. O Who Will Speak From A Womb Or A Cloud?
  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
  ...
• 5. Grandfather, Grandfather
  Grandfather, Grandfather,
  what do pandas say?
  Grandfather, Grandfather,
  as among the rocks they roll
  ...
• 6. In Memory Of David Archer (liv)
  The words are always as
  strange and dead as those
  fragments and oddments that
  the wave casts up on the shore:
  ...
• 7. At Thurgarton Church
  To the memory of my father
  
  At Thurgarton Church the sun
  burns the winter clouds over
  ...
• 8. To My Mother
  Most near, most dear, most loved and most far,
  Under the window where I often found her
  Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter,
  Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand,
  ...

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