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* For His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum * oh … how I’ve dreamed of you - sultry mistress to the sun's ire … dappled and coy amid the palms, a-sway your eyes of the gloaming’s vault shimmering with the Milky Way … Luna, red as rouge to blush your cheek of sacred sand dune drifts, the waves of your golden tresses … you … a flawless gem, shimmering cut and polished with care and perfection to sunder the sunlight into rainbows - to focus the best energies and acumen of humankind and seed an oasis orchid with a bloom, exquisite and rare … oh proud are you jumeirah, jadhab and mutheer ... soon and sure we shall woo each other - you, Princess of the Arabian Desert me, fool for your fevered wiles tempted from afar … you, immodest and lush with such lavish loins of excess arms of extravagance, beckoning me decadent, seductive … warm, endless summer night whispering fancies … take good care, my heart the soft echos of its dire drumming have yet returned from the firmament final pulses not abounding ... but the rhythm it hereafter composes is graciously sacrificed for your admiration … offered up to your dream - sweet song of your gilded breeze … the aria of my tawny, torrid temptress ... DUBAI! ~ 2nd Place ~ in the "Foreign Travel" Poetry Contest, Thvia Shetley, Sponsor. ~ 1st Place ~ in the "Landscapes Poetry Contest", Kim Rodrigues, Sponsor. ~ 6th Place ~ in the "Exotic Poetry Contest", Debbie Guzzi, Sponsor.

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Suzanne Delaney

Date: 10/8/2017 9:12:00 AM

Congratulations Greg: Your personifaction is a great way to describe the imagery and mood of this country. I enjoyed your poem so much. Best, SuZ

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 10/8/2017 3:50:00 PM

That's very kind of you to say so, Suzanne - I'm so pleased you liked my poem! Thanks for taking the time to read and comment - Blessings, Friend! :-)

Mike Gentile

Date: 10/8/2017 7:35:00 AM

Heartfelt congratulations to you as well, Gregory, now I want to visit!

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 10/8/2017 3:49:00 PM

Thank you so very much, Mike - much appreciated, my friend! If you get the chance, go - it's amazing! :-)

Subimal Sinha-Roy

Date: 10/8/2017 2:51:00 AM

Congratulations, Greg on your great win with such a wonderfully crafted poem.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 10/8/2017 3:11:00 AM

Thank you so very much, Subimal - I'm thankful that you liked this one. Blessings!

Thvia Shetley

Date: 10/7/2017 1:44:00 PM

Wonderful entry to my Foreign Travel contest, absolutely stunning piece. Congrats on this poem winning a place in yet a third contest! That is a testament to your writing for sure.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 10/7/2017 6:13:00 PM

Thank you so VERY much, Thvia - I am honored by the placement and so pleased you enjoyed my little dessert flower - it is very special to me for many reasons, (as is Dubai). Blessings, friend! :-)

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 7/25/2017 5:58:00 PM

Oh, you did the same as me. You entered it into two different contests. I too got a first place in Landscapes with my same poem for which I won a lower place with Debbi. This is really good writing, VERY good. Dubai. I want to go THERE.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 7/28/2017 8:54:00 PM

That's so cool, Andrea - and they were both contests about landscapes, too! You should try to go to Dubai, it is amazing - the architecture alone will blow you away, but if I'm there when you go I will show you the palace and introduce you to the Emir - he is an amazing human being, and a great poet!. Thank you for your kind words, my friend!

John Hamilton

Date: 7/24/2017 8:06:00 AM

Congrats Greg another winner!

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 7/24/2017 2:35:00 PM

Thank you so much, John - officially your shortest comment EVER, haha! You are one of my best friends here, John, and I hope you know how much I appreciate it, Buddy. ;-)

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 7/24/2017 3:29:00 AM

I really loved your entry Greg! The photo you chose, beautifully displays the romanticism of the city with the old and the new. Your words enchant! Congratulations on your wonderful win! My captcha reads DAM...I must agree! : )

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 7/24/2017 2:33:00 PM

LOL - that's so cool! (The captcha) Must be an omen, haha! Thank you so kindly, my friend, I greatly value your opinion, and I'm so happy you enjoyed this one! I will eventually be presenting this to my friend and sometime boss, the Emir of Dubai, (Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum). I want it done in calligraphy, matted, framed, glassed, etc., first, however. :-)

Lin Lane

Date: 7/23/2017 6:34:00 AM

Well done, Greg. Now you have a double winner. 4th verse is my favorite one of all, and the picture you've chosen shows the blending of old and new worlds of the country.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 7/23/2017 7:47:00 AM

Thank you so very kindly, Lin, that's what I loved about this photo as well - it's probably the most progressive country on Earth in respect to technology, (a long way to go with women equality, however), and yet the Bedouin still camp within site of its exquisite architecture - truly a blend of the old and new! :-)

Debbie Guzzi

Date: 7/22/2017 8:44:00 PM

I love architecture too & would be thrilled to see Dubai! Thanks for the glimpse. Please do enter my next contest & if you would like editing assistance & advice about where to send your work to be published just soup mail me. Congrad's Light & Love Debbie

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 7/23/2017 7:45:00 AM

Thank you so much, Debbie, for the kind comments and especially the placement! I will definitely enter more and contact you soon - I have reached a point where I think I'd like to give this a serious commitment and consider publishing, and have a solid amount of good-quality work with which to do so ... I have NO idea how to go about it, however. Thank you again! :-)

Carole Duet

Date: 7/9/2017 3:38:00 PM

I had to come back and tell you congratulations, Greg, on your placement in the contest. I knew it would do well. It peaks the imagination of what must be a beautiful place indeed. You are so lucky to have been there.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 7/12/2017 9:10:00 PM

Thank you so very much, Carole, you are always so kind to me ... I hope you get a chance to experience it someday - it is truly like nothing else, and the architecture and engineering feats ALONE are worth the trip!

Carole Duet

Date: 7/1/2017 11:28:00 PM

Beautiful! I too have always wanted to go to Dubai and this poem surely puts it up on a pedestal, increasing my desire for the exotic and what must be a fantastic place. Congrats on your placement in the contest too, Greg.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 7/1/2017 11:46:00 PM

Thank you very kindly, Carole ... it is one amazing place, the best of everything and excess to excess. I have always been drawn to expensive things, and the feats of architecture and engineering there are incredible! I sometimes do work for the Emir, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Afzal Nusker

Date: 6/29/2017 10:42:00 PM

Beautifully described imagery. Congrats on your win, Greg.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 6/30/2017 8:33:00 PM

Thank you very much, Afzal - that's very kind of you!

John Hamilton

Date: 6/29/2017 9:41:00 PM

Congratulations Greg, I knew this was a winner, glad you entered it, see persistence pays off!

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 6/30/2017 8:32:00 PM

Thank you so kindly, John - so glad you enjoyed it!

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 6/29/2017 7:45:00 PM

All that you say blends well with the desert blossom! A lovely landscape thus a lovely win in my contest! Congrats, Greg!

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 6/30/2017 8:32:00 PM

Thank you so VERY much, Kim - this was such an awesome surprise today!! I can't tell you how much I needed this ... things have been very hard taking care of my dad of late, and I needed something positive ... thios is just wonderful honor, and I am so thankful, as I respect your opinion a great deal! :-) <3

Joanna Daniel

Date: 6/24/2017 12:26:00 AM

A differently beautiful painting, El Bahku:):)

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 6/24/2017 3:20:00 PM

Thank you so much, Jo - this was a work of joy!

John Hamilton

Date: 6/22/2017 10:46:00 AM

Very intriguing writing Greg, sounds like someone love the desert oasis, looks like a complex crossroads of modern living and ancient traditions. What is the meaning of El Bakhu?

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 6/22/2017 11:02:00 AM

His brother calls me El Greggy ...

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 6/22/2017 11:01:00 AM

Thank you, John! That's the Arab nick-name that the Emir of Dubai gave me, (Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum), who is also the VP of United Arab Emirates ... it comes from the music moniker I use that most of my songs are recorded and copyrighted under - Bahku.