Charles Barnett - One Poem

Hopes and Dreams

Tattered at the edges like

a library book

or a garage sale jigsaw puzzle.

Jagged and frayed, yellowed at the

edges.

With a hidden elegance,

like piles of dirty laundry,

or a composition book

with doodles and lyrics

scrawled in the margins like

so many hopes and

dreams.

And a soft anguish

like dusty guitar strings

or a coffee table

with scratches and stains

etched in the legs like

so many hopes and

dreams.

Charles Barnett is a 21 year-old aspiring poet from Ironton, OH.