Barry J. Carter

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POEM

One of several poems I have written.

FROM MY WINDOW
Copyright © Barry J. Carter 1995

From my window I could hear the screams in the ice-cold dark.
From my window I heard the sirens wailing all night long.
From my window I could see the flashing lights, on the other side of the building site,

and it felt good, to be safe, in my room.

From my window there was a rattle and clash of cans.
From my window I heard the hissing snarls of the fighting tom cats.
From my window I saw the flying the shoe, from the woman down below as she bellowed,

“Put that in your pipe and smoke it.”

From my window I could see the dancing shadows.
From my window I felt the thump of the incessant, pounding bass.
From my window I heard the man next door, screaming out again to tell them,

to 'turn the damn thing down'.

Reflections from my room, as they slowly pass by, day by day.
Reflections on my life, go zooming by so fast, I can’t breath.
If I had a chance, to do it all again,

I would surely try to change

the way that became, my destiny.

From my window I heard the gun shots ring out.
From my window I saw the flickering flash of light.
From my window I heard TV’s all around, on twenty different channels, and all of them

the lonely people’s only friend.

From my window I saw the man on the ledge across the way.
From my window he appeared to be just standing there.
From my window something caught my eye, two people in a room, hugging, kissing...

When I returned to the ledge, he was gone.

LYRIC SAMPLES

TOO MUCH TOO SOON
Copyright © Barry J. Carter 1990

A song about the urge to increase profits at any costs, even to the destruction of the environment and the suffering of its inhabitants. The irony is that without the environment and its inhabitants, there can be no profit. To read click: Lyrics

THE TEACHER
Copyright © Barry J. Carter 1993
A song about how we are all teachers and pupils and that we are always learning something new, or teaching something old. To read click: Lyrics

These are just two examples of the more than 70 titles I have registered at A.P.R.A. I am not saying that these are the best examples, they are just two that I like and that are demonstrated within this site.

For more examples click lyrics

SCREENPLAYS

DON'T WAIT UP

Short Film

PREY

Short Film

THE BENCH

Short Film

THE TRUFFLE PATCH

Original short story for children, for animation. (Treatment.)

SHORT STORY