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surely, no concept of Heaven compares in all object to this - the gift of fair winds, following seas and that taste of Calypso's kiss sweet, cool sprays of briny bliss ... sprites demi-détourné on wave-tops ten million gold coins that shine slow-spilling from Avalon's coffers to dance in these eyes of mine a shimmering waltz, divine ... such kinship I feel with the heavens when cutting blue wakes with a keel so much closer to bright creation and amidst what I count as real - my grasp, on the captain's wheel ... to slip between the rolling swells and cleave the crests like time ... a whimsical wonder within me like a child composing a rhyme - an alluring adventure, sublime ... a bell-buoy nods its red noggin while clanging out mournful songs a grumpy old gull chastises the hull thus, cackling to prove me wrong - yes, HERE is where salties belong ... well, if I could choose my undoing I'd imagine my last breaths to be ... filled with these sighs of sea foam one old swabby, quite fancy-free - and forever made part of the sea ... so when I'm old and lubbing land and the dark shadows come to creep please burn my marrow to ashes and cede these bones to the deep - for it's there that I'm destined to sleep ... to the sea with my soul ... to keep. ~ 1st Place ~ in the "Tinker, Taylor" Poetry Contest, Julia Ward, Judge & Sponsor.

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Line Gauthier

Date: 1/1/2019 2:29:00 PM

Well penned, Gregory. Awesome phrasing. Congrats on your top win.

P.S. Awtry

Date: 12/29/2018 9:31:00 AM

so vivid and musical... I heard your sailor singing and the waves splashing. Congratulations!

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 12/29/2018 8:35:00 AM

A fave! Congratulations, Greg! Oh how I love the sea! And so proud also to have served in the Navy. Be blessed! I am such a fan of your poetry!

Maureen Mcgreavy

Date: 12/29/2018 8:24:00 AM

Magnifique!! <3

Alyssa Lorette

Date: 7/5/2017 2:51:00 PM

You have an eloquent way of using words, Greg! Congrats on winning 4th place! :)

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 7/5/2017 10:07:00 PM

Thank you so very kindly, Alyssa - I greatly appreciate your compliments! (Alyssa is my youngest daughter's name - she visited today and I just said goodbye ... I never get used to that, lol). ;-)

Jeremy Smith

Date: 7/4/2017 9:00:00 PM

Nice write Greg :) I have never been much of a boater, but there was a summer spent on a pontoon that will never be forgotten!! Great win as well!!

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 7/4/2017 9:30:00 PM

Thanks so much, Jeremy - much appreciated my friend!

John Hamilton

Date: 5/16/2017 9:52:00 AM

Love this Terza Rima, it's one of my favourite forms of poetry, I use it a lot in my songs, nothing like a triple rhyme, with some internal rhyming thrown in the mix. This is a beauty a 7 and a fave!

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 5/20/2017 6:13:00 AM

Thank you so much, John - I am partial to this one, though I didn't know the form. It garnered NOTHING in the Springtime Premiere Contest, however. Getting so there are certain directions I'm not going to steer in, when it comes to contests ... sadly. Live and learn! Thanks again, my friend!

Darren White

Date: 5/8/2017 9:02:00 AM

You use a rhyme scheme here that is one of my favourites, I've done quite some poems in it. That aside.... Ocean, boats, water, sea, starry skies, moon, night, sand and a longing to be on that water, it is all there, and it is what I always feel, as if I was born a mermaid :) I love being on a large sailing boat (don't know the english word), and they took me ther once, wheelchair and all and it was glorious!

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 5/13/2017 2:19:00 AM

Thank you SO much, Darren - that means so much to me, and I hope this provided a bit of an escape for you! I love the water, too, and dream to own a sailboat - an old prof of mine has a gorgeous one, and I always tease him about how envious I am, haha! Blessings, buddy! :-)