Gregory Richard Barden Poet Rhyme

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dear mama

* Happy Heavenly Birthday, Mom … you’d be 100 today, but your knight was waiting. I’ll be toasting you a time-or-two, cuz those wounds are ever-fresh. I miss you so much … like moonlight misses petals. *

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dear Mama have you found that other side
        where loved ones, hope and heaven all reside?
            oh do you stroll, Dad's hand lost deep in yours 
    and breathe the splendid air that kingdom's shores?

dear Mama are you dancing with your knight
        in sturdy armor that you shined so bright?
            oh do you paint new landscapes of that realm
    and sail those azure seas, Dad at the helm?

dear Mama are you singing bright and clear
        and sharing anecdotes to charm or cheer?
            oh are you with the dear ones who have passed?
    so many went before you - gone too fast.

dear Mama do you know how much I miss
        our talks and nature walks, your loving kiss?
            oh do you yearn our sweet connection, rare
    that even without words was always there?

dear Mama do you know the hole that now
        I’ll have to heal within this heart somehow?
            oh what's this man to do, his mama gone
    but for her sake, find ways … to carry on?

dear Mama - I shall share your love for life
        the grace and care you had as mom and wife
            I'll do my best to spread my heart like you
    your smile deep inside to get me through

dear Mama - death has taken such a toll
        still I've these hopes, eternal, for my soul -
            that someday when my body sets it free
    dear Mama's open arms ... will wait …

for me.





~ POETRY AGAINST POVERTY ~

( photographic art created copyright-free by the author from family photo files and Prisma / Lightroom )

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