View from a Hillside

By Robert W. Barker

The poems in View From A Hillside are selected from those written by the author over the last several years. Some are poems written for a fund-raising event for the Organization for New Americans, a community-based organization that provides education and assistance for new immigrants and refugees when they arrive in this great country. That need is as great now as it ever has been in the past.

The reader will note that the author still has an affinity for the shorter forms of poetry, inspired by the Japanese haiku and tanka forms. However, sometimes a longer poem seems more appropriate.

Men of War for some there is no war unloved but they do not send their own sons Emily of Amherst she quivers on edge a dancing ghost, transparent; bound in enigma

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Apr 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781532020247

Robert W. Barker

Robert W. Barker worked as an international explorer for gold in some of the most remote corners of five continents. He has worked with people of many different cultures and ethnic backgrounds, in locations that tourists rarely attempt to visit. His exposure to many different countries and different world environments brings solid authenticity to his descriptions of the locations and characters in his writing. He is the author of The Devil’s Chosen, an examination of the decision processes of the Holocaust and the winner of the Eric Hoffer Award. He has also authored Nuclear Rogue, the first in the series of Peter Binder and Maria Davidoff thrillers. He currently lives in western Massachusetts.

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iUniverse rev. date: 04/11/2017

Contents

Tomorrow’s Eyes

Dan and I

The Met

Reunion

Daniel

Fading Memories

Good Passage

Faded Glory

Vultures

Legacy

Men of War

World United

Hickory and Oak

Burning Souls

Headwaters

Remember

Marriage

New York

McCarthy

North to the Barrens

Arctic Dreaming

Waiting for a Boy

Elliot’s the Name

Young World

Elliot’s World

Night Messenger

Moon Rise

Returning

Fall Prophets

Walking Down

Impatient

Birches and Calls

Exaltation

Loon Calls

Emerald Spring

It Will Be Gray

Striptease

Four Toms

Winter’s Darkness

Lost Viewpoint

Winter Vision

Morning Gossips

Awakening

Spring Songs

Winter Perfection

Close Encounter at Borestone

Last Leaves

Swamp Maples

American History?

Hyannis Son

Embrace

Empty Heart

People of the Fear

The City of Red

Dark Wind

World Trade Center

Family Spirits

Waiting for Her

Fierce Love #2

Stranger

Porcupine

Morning too Quickly

Emily of Amherst

By Right

Anna Bolena

Travel Day

One Room

Mind Rain

To two young lives, Hope and Elliot

who bring us light and treasure.

May your lives be full of love and kindness.

Foreword

These poems were written