This is the personal writing site of Barry Hurd- online consultant, designer, writer, marketer, entrepreneur, and father.
Can you ever dream
sleeping in a place where you never wake
conscious oblivion,
standing in a moment you can’t take
I wonder, peacefully breathing, no screaming
as peaceful blue waters pull me down
is this wish that just won’t break
as my pride throws me around
hopeless or hopeful,
desiring nothing more than breath
to feel myself believe again
and find a way to need,
as […]
Just Once…
I thought I’d say something
a little more meaningful than the last
A brief joke or a subtle line of logic
perhaps just slightly different
so that you would remember what I say
But then as always,
I’d just be forgotten and tossed aside
Like the wrapping paper of a mediocre birthday gift
Yet someone besides you,
would remember I had a purpose, […]
Sometimes, we hold ourselves
not knowing forgiveness or compassion
We find the truth of our thoughts broken
as the darkness we feel becomes sacrilage
As children, we learn to believe
in things that we cannot see, or feel
we find our imagination becoming real
and we listen to an invisible world as our friend
Yet as we grow, we discover the fallen apple
We […]
That I’m crazy. Its often very simple like that.
Some people say that I’m true.
Some people call me quiet.
Some people know I’m a friend.
Some people realize who I am.
Yet no one knows, as my life is often changing.
They witness, as my reality zips on by.
Everything changing at the drop of a dime.
I wonder, is living life […]
I could feel her breathing,
slow exhaustion
Pushing past every limit
Leaving passion without definition
pulling me deeper
Would I ignore this thieving
Quickly failing my lustful needing
No I, no I indeed
Should I fall to earthbound heaving
This night my soul would be leaving
Oh yes, yes I
Could quickly abandon my believing
My fateful dismay of peaceful greaving
Yet could I bare to retrieve
a heartfelt […]
So wonderful,
oh how we meet,
one cup of coffee at a time
sitting on the seat
with little reason or rhyme
in the corner of the cafe
as you order a latte
can life be so bittersweet
or would I know
the subtle hunger of lust
as I sip my espresso
No I think, should I trust
in a flavor so robust
an aroma, so complete
as strangers, […]
Last year when I was gone
It hurt, to hear the wind sing
the end of summer, the nights so long
To see a day of giving end so wrong
When you reach, to never again hold my hand
Yet I have yet to go, as my heart can’t stay
as my soul is lost in figment, in every way
Remember me, […]
Okay… this has nothing to do with poetry. It does have some good self-expression. I saw one of these a few days ago and I’d rather write one up in my free time and prod myself into action. I often find it fun just to list out things I care about and believe. It helps […]
In five seconds I forgot to mention
The way you saw me standing in awe
as we both found we knew nothing
the lifetime I would remember you
in the blink of an eye, so fast
the day my hopes were so grand
Do you recall that moment?
the second you lost yourself
in a mere glance across the room
from the quiet heart […]
Dreaming***************
I think to myself
is the air I breathe
something of me
I try to believe
as I focus on if
a soul can be free
I wonder of things
the need to see
a reason to be
as I ponder
Your words
subtle yet strong
they make me belong
Your eyes
reaching deep within me
in search of destiny
Your heart, so strong
I realize,
is not yet gone
as I hope
that […]