My Choice (Jared Barhite Poems)
I would rather dwell a hermit In some silent peaceful wood, Where no voice of human being Ever breaks the solitude; Where babbling brook, ...
Jared Barhite Poems on Lies & Deceit (11 Poems)
The Ogre (Jared Barhite Poems)
There's an ogre abroad, boys, There's an ogre abroad, A three-handed monster That makes his abode In hamlet and city, In country and town, And revels ...
Love (Jared Barhite Poems)
Love is a sort of cannibal And lives upon its kind, It dares all dangers, fears no foes And to the world is ...
Indulgence (Jared Barhite Poems)
An alarm is sounding through the land That tells of a stronger foe Than that which marched on Lexington, To strike a fatal ...
Heartstrings (Jared Barhite Poems)
The tiny trembling tendons That twine about the heart, Are chords that yield a music Unknown to vocal art. Though soft the notes are ...
Lies (Jared Barhite Poems)
If aught on earth my soul can fire, 'Tis the deception of a liar Who with soft smoothness of the tongue, Has promises ...
Incompetence (Jared Barhite Poems)
Sometimes our soul within us burns To see dark Ignorance aspire To move toward light a mind that yearns For knowledge that may ...
Robin Redbreast (Jared Barhite Poems)
Low and soft and plaintive, Now distant and now near, Is the voice of Robin Redbreast, That in the tree I hear. Sometimes 'tis ...
Life’s Emergencies (Jared Barhite Poems)
How strangely dark are the vapors That sometimes obscure the way, Ere the light of truth advances To the noon of a perfect ...
The Fringed Gentian (Jared Barhite Poems)
I remember well, in my boyhood's romp, The beautiful flower that grew near the swamp, With its spiral screw Of cerulean hue, While on ...
Strand Despair (Jared Barhite Poems)
The wrecks that lie on Strand Despair, Should serve as buoys on life's stern seas To guide the voyager safely, where He may ...