Gregory Richard Barden Poet Couplet

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a soar, celestial

* One of the first poems I ever wrote, a Couplet in lilting Iambic Tetrameter, (I posted a previous version a short time ago), and I t is the favorite poem of a dear friend of mine in Florida. She’s putting some of the lines on her memorial someday, slightly altered to be first-person - I am truly honored, but I’ve “tweaked” it now four times, and this time most of all. “Her” lines are still intact, and I pray she still finds the poem … her favorite. ?? *

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one night I stood and breathless, swooned
       ‘neath hems soft-sewn of twilight's wound

to dream and brood through what might be
       should man dare skirr that sun-cloaked sea

and cast sweet hopes 'midst midnight’s sky
       strung pearls on heav’n's bright bosom, ply

plunge, brave, that ocean's depths, serene
       through star-vaults whirled and serpentine

heave-to, the boundless breadths of night
       then plumb the maelstroms bathed in light

bring morning’s cheeks to warm and blush
       then soothe the gloaming’s breath to hush

with angels, ‘pon those sands, we’ll dance
       our prints placed deep, that great expanse

thus claimed, the shores, that sapphire fold
       ‘til hearts and stars, themselves ... are cold.





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