Driftwood

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fewer … stars there are in the heart of heaven than the myriad ripples of brine that gently placed me here - tender tongues of tide that tossed me and polished my bark away shaped me smooth from jagged - turned from beast, to beauty … courses ago - I was loosed from a tree and lost to the sevens in a gale - sundered from all I’d known yet … my journey was ordered as all things are made divine not by substance but by ministration and singularity … for the universe, entire, holds no other creation like me the countless moments and patient, boundless energy that my trek required would never have been wasted on the unremarkable … and though one sojourn has ended something awaits that is more infinite, even than waves … OR suns … possibility. Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, August 12, 2023 ( photo taken 8/1/23 by Gregory R Barden, Ferry Beach, Scarborough, ME )

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Robert Lindley

Date: 9/11/2023 4:47:00 AM

This my good friend, is so very deep, so very profound as to astound. Your poetic ink always awes us and you are indeed a master poet. A true gem and a very fine and deep fav for me. God bless you.

Craig Cornish

Date: 8/21/2023 4:31:00 AM

Your pen is Excalibur and you've drawn it from the stone!

John Hamilton

Date: 8/19/2023 12:49:00 PM

This is a great write G, loved the personification, you are a how do you say... singularity. How you write something so brilliant looking at a piece of driftwood, amazing.

John Lawless

Date: 8/16/2023 5:47:00 AM

A FAVE....A DOUBLE FAVE.....MAGNIFICENT!!! a subtle personification of the spirit

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 8/18/2023 3:30:00 AM

Thank you so very kindly, John - much appreciated!