“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.” Epictetus
Author: Henry Barnard
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
“City Boy Blues”
Manhattan, A Photographer’s Journey by Henry Barnard
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Welcome Mr. Death
Now the leaves, relentless, fast decay,
And memory grows dimmer day by day.
Old age seeps into joints and sinews furtively.
Shedding white hair grows tousled unbecomingly.
All your dreams long since past…
Purpose seems a bloated outcast.
Hope and aspirations retarded;
Fleeting time, spent, never recovered.
The young fear Mr. Death —
Not to be cheated of their experience,
But the old have had their time,
So, for them, he may be kind.
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Goodbye
Death, the unknowable,
Hangs over one’s aged head
Like the sword of Damocles.
Will one depart with just a whisper
Into the endless night…
Forsake all sight and sound,
All touch and taste,
With the last breath?
No second chances in the dark embrace.
No redemption in silent time.
Not even adrift.
Nowhere.
Nothing.
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First Love
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Carpe Diem
“Seize the day.” Horace
A Twinkle in His Eye
Springtime.
A solitary old man sits on a bench,
His cane resting at his side,
His doleful eyes glance about the park,
But, restless, do not dwell for long.
Then he hears children playing with a beach ball,
And turns to see them standing in a circle.
The ball darts back and forth between them,
Kept from touching the ground – the challenge.
Their voices excited, laughing, shouting, urgent, gay –
Merriment of youth.
A tall girl hits the ball with a tight fist.
But it shoots straight up and gets snagged by branches —
The ball now suspended and out of reach.
Squeals of excitement and angst from the children
Proclaim their predicament.
A smile flickers across the old man’s face…
A twinkle in his eye.
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Empire State Building and New Yorker Sign
Manhattan, A Photographer’s Journey by Henry Barnard
Digital download of the JPEG file for this photograph.
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Derivation?
Jeans, Washington Square Park
People, A Photographer’s Perspective by Henry Barnard
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Henry's Views 