Rick Barnes's E-Mail Address: btlore@hotmail.com


Rick Barnes's Profile:
Well...I guess it's time to put a profile on here. I'm always so clumbsy at this. I don't think it is because I am withdrawn or too guarded about revealing things. Quite the contrary, I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve and tell my entire life story to a complete stranger while seated next to him/her on a plane. Perhaps it is that I find details served up without any real context to read like so many ingredients without any recipe. There is another fear I harbour. I don't mind someone getting to know me via the poetry, but I do object to someone trying to know the poetry through me. People more concerned with motive than meaning should stick to law. I think poetry transends the writer. If not, what's a poem for? If you're still with me so far, (I really am trying), I started writing poetry at the age of nine. My Grandmother, Alyce Marie Sparks, was a published poet and I grew up listening to her recite. My fifth grade teacher was very fond of poetry and felt it important that we learn to recite. While going through the text book of poetry I found a poem by my Grandmother. I was so excited. It was an identity moment. My teacher assigned each of us the task of writing a poem about our mother. I took the task very seriously and felt that I had to live up to my new identity as Alyce Marie Sparks' grandchild. I wrote, re-wrote, revised, tore up and wrote again until I wore that little poem out. Then something very odd happened. One day I took the pencil into my hand and wrote as fast as I could, a poem that was being dictated to me inside my little noggin. It was writing itself. When I finished I realized I had written something that couldn't be said any other way, and yet I had the strangest feeling that I hadn't really written it. The poem received praise and was placed in a display case in the hallway. All of that was rewarding and a little embarrassing. What I really wanted was to experience that feeling of a poem writing itself again. I told my Grandmother this and she said, "Ricky, you've been given a gift so you'd better get busy. Now that poetry has found you don't concern yourself with being a poet. Work at being worthy of the poetry. Everything else is vanity." I never stopped writing poetry. To date I have written four books of poetry and a fifth is in the works. I have a book of poetry titled "Imposters" resently released by 1st Books. It is available at Amazon.com and various other dot coms. I really enjoy posting poetry here and have found it to be a rewarding experience. Ohhhh yeah, I nearly forgot. I have long chestnut brown hair.

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A Leaf Blooms In Maine

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2005-03-17 18:07:15
A Poet's Truth

7

2001-05-01 01:11:27
A Thousand Dollars Worth Of Christmas Miracles

6

2001-12-25 20:08:56
All I know About It

9

2001-02-12 13:40:16
All Things Must Follow Nature

6

2002-09-17 10:36:07
All To A Melody By Eric Satie

7

2001-09-29 13:30:55
An American Tourist In America

9

2003-01-20 13:08:28
An Immodest Request

19

2003-08-14 14:55:17
An Old Man's Song On Christmas Eve

11

2003-12-26 02:51:13
Arioso

12

2004-11-11 07:49:00
As Far As Expectation Goes

6

2001-10-02 18:03:53
As You Leave

7

2003-01-09 10:30:47
Ashes

10

2004-05-14 12:44:00
Blue Notes for Jimmy in 5/4 Time

0

2001-05-09 17:36:54
Both Sides

6

2001-05-02 14:56:53
Chris' Touch

12

2001-01-20 18:32:56
Coming Back To "The Haight"

8

2002-10-07 11:38:20
Coming Into A Room (A Copenhagen Interpretation)

8

2002-10-12 12:48:02
Confession(s)

6

2001-12-03 11:39:01
Crossing

0

2001-02-26 16:30:18
Dancing For The Gods

5

2004-06-14 18:24:58
Dancing With Your Gypsy Soul

8

2003-07-20 13:46:18
Digital Poetry

5

2004-10-21 02:16:41
Equidistant

7

2003-06-11 18:41:50
Evening Songs We Hardly Sang...

10

2003-04-17 18:02:53
Every Other Night, At The Paradise Cafe

6

2005-05-16 21:10:42
Falling From You

9

2005-06-15 06:20:01
Fermata

9

2002-12-09 17:06:45
Finding Hope

13

2003-11-15 16:00:54
Flesh Tone Poem

8

2001-03-12 17:08:46
Fool's Parade

12

2001-01-08 16:45:29
For Mrs. Parker

8

2002-10-15 12:48:40
For The Sake Of All Lovers Lost To This

10

2003-10-15 11:59:16
Four Quatrains

11

2002-03-16 15:07:36
Further On Toward The End Of The Road

10

2001-06-24 02:19:07
Garden Gates

8

2002-07-03 15:10:45
Harbinger

8

2002-04-08 12:18:57
Helen's Song

10

2002-07-21 18:12:49
Her Sun Dress

7

2002-05-06 16:14:53
Hiding From The Past

11

2002-02-20 15:29:26
How It All Ends

7

2002-01-31 12:20:32
I Remember Julenisse

6

2004-12-20 05:16:54
I Took You With Me

8

2004-04-10 18:58:11
I Wish I Was In Love With Annie

13

2002-02-13 10:34:31
If You Say Storm

7

2002-03-22 17:42:16
In A Mist

6

2002-01-23 18:47:37
In Memory of Emily

5

2001-05-23 12:06:47
In Praise Of Ordinary Things

10

2003-05-06 18:37:22
Invitation At Wood's Edge

9

2003-07-08 16:23:07
It All Goes 'Round and 'Round

12

2001-01-02 15:19:22
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