Barriers

There are many times I set up barriers and walls, invisible unless you come too close, And then you hit them.

You wonder what happened.

You didn't know, I can't let you in.

I've lost the key to open the doors in the walls, and I don't know how To take them down.

Fran Watson Copyright © 2003

For more poetry and stories you can go to Fran's webpage http://www.franwatson.ca

In The News:

Poetry Ireland celebrates 30th birthday
Irish Times, Ireland - 3 hours ago
THE IRISH College and the Irish Embassy threw a spectacular 30th birthday party for Poetry Ireland, featuring readings by leading Irish writers. ...

Hafez poetry is imbued with spirituality of Quran: Khorramshahi
Tehran Times, Iran - 1 hour ago
TEHRAN -- Hafez poetry is imbued with spirituality that emanates from the Quran, Hafez expert Baha’eddin Khorramshahi told MNA on the occasion of Hafez ...

Curiosity thrilled the cat-lover when it came to poetry
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 5 hours ago
THERE'S a game we played back home for a giggle. I'm not sure if it has an official name, but the premise is simple: the wee scrolls mined out of Chinese ...

Boston Globe
A pianist poised between technique and poetry
Boston Globe, United States - 20 hours ago
Some protest that his refined objectivity robs the music of its vitality and poetry, especially in Romantic music. It's more accurate, though, ...

Visiting children’s author sets poetry to music at Newell
Grand Island Independent, NE - 34 minutes ago
Menard will give a free concert featuring his pirate themed songs and poetry at the school today from 10 to 11 am By Harold Reutter Poetry was bouncing off ...

Financial Times
Poetry for the masses in Brighton
Chichester Today, UK - 14 hours ago
Multi-millionaire businessman Felix Dennis is reclaiming poetry for the masses once again with his latest collection. "I think in the last 60 years since ...
Lunch with the FT: Felix Dennis Financial Times
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The Daily Star
The passions in poetry
The Daily Star, Bangladesh - 10 hours ago
Poetry is more precious than other branches of knowledge, according to famous critics and scholars throughout the course of history. ...

Poetry readings
Vancouver Courier,  Canada - 9 hours ago
The American Writers and Poets Organization presents an evening of poetry and book launches Oct. 14 at 7 pm in the Alice MacKay Room on the lower level of ...

The TLS's poetry editor wins the Forward Prize for Best Collection ...
Times Online, UK - Oct 9, 2008
He seized immediately on the sense that Imlah, bypassing those much-fancied twentieth-century voices that have audibly influenced most new poetry, had taken ...

Motion in poetry
Northern Echo, UK - 11 hours ago
The poetry has been performed to parents, teachers and their fellow pupils. St Johns Primary School and Mount Pleasant Primary School have been the latest ...
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