Haven of Lost Dreams, Revisited

By Eugene N. Barron

The poems first capture sorrow and pain but through the spiritual journey, a transformation takes hold. In the background is a depiction of the world of New York City and the human dramas that unfold, from the petty to the sublime.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jul 4, 2002
• ISBN: 9781469797908

Eugene N. Barron

Dr. Eugene Barron, a poet, is also a practicing psychotherapist, residing in Manhattan. Though self taught, he has been fortunate to have studied with a few "masters". Poetry remains his daily muse and guide.

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Contents

Haven of Lost Dreams

Algarrobo Tree

Yoga Class

The Lesson

Black Forest Cake

The Just*

Alien Brothers

Mexican Crucifixion

Your Radiance

Riding on the Celestial Wave

Bliss

Third Eye

My Secret

Inside the Head

Healing

The Naked Body of Humanity

A Meditation on Making 9/11 Sense

Battery Park

Realization

Making Nonsense

Hurrah for Uncertainty

Courage

Going Down

Pleasure Box

Otterhood

Dangerous Poems

The Other Side of the Mirror

Bizarre Shuffle

A Different Latitude

Love Lunacy

A Grim Corner of the Cloud

Holocaust Lesson

Sad for Both of Us

Shame

Malady Blues

What More Can Be Said?

Night Court Audition

Downsizing

A Poem Left in the Love Pantry

Eros On The Tightrope

An Endless Wheel

Nakazora

New York Corners

Borscht Circuit: Paradise Lost

Johnny on the Pony

Shiksa Madness

A Good Ending

Flat Footed Poets On The Edge

Poet’s Insomnia

A Road Unnatural

Quantum Surprises

The Other Side of the Moon

Hope

Personals

E Mail Beast

Cyber Connection; Suburban Style

Curious

Seasons

Discovery

Father minus Son

Quantum Bonding at

Barnes and Noble

Source of Altruistic Love

Black Hole Fixation

Musing on a Matriarch

Samurai Espionage

Midnight Reverie at the Cloisters

Sweet Day Blues

Cosmic Healing: He—She

Suckle From A Stone

Float Upward

Revenge of the Tiny Against the Large

A Leper in New York

Musing in a Dental Chair

Celestial Kitten

Menopause, Male Style.

Noire Medicine

Episcopalians Can Dance

A Dance Is More Than A Dance

Holes and Stumps

Free Enterprise

Gender Rubbish

Teepee Ceremony

A Vision

End Notes

FOR ALEX, KARINA AND MICHAEL

Haven of Lost Dreams

My daughter, fleshless bone; a feather floating towards eternity.

She lugs her backpack:

hidden dumbbells,

thirty pounds of penance to a holy hallucination.

Drag her, kicking and biting.

Cram her for delivery; condensed, pressed, flattened into the

slim Saturn.

We climb the coiled driveway to the high Mecca

for anorexics. Hospital of shadows and stifling fog.

Show and tell for anorexics.

Gaunt faces line up.

Check their skeleton weight.

View their drifting excrement.

Detached from body, she takes her place.

A Buddhist nun holding