Gregory Richard Barden Poet Rhyme

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spindrift

* From my 2024 Wheelsong Books release “Melancholy Moon” … stay tuned for more! *

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how proper that I found you
          for my farewell midst the dunes
               those sands where I did oft' adore
     your flesh daubed by the moon

o numberless, the softened eves
          those callow hearts would wend
               but promises quite often grieve
     and swift would come their end

to press my kiss upon your eye
          dove cheek, soft placed a-palm
               I bent to meet your sullen sigh
     so breathed for kindness' calm

devoutly yours, my self entire
          the draught to draw your wine
               you yet devour'd me, eyes afire
     white-kneed before your shrine

my blood as passion, let to be
          the sweet sate for your thirst
               a fiery flood you then set free
     a seed consumed and cursed

o how's a laurel placed a-brow
          this man, so chilled and damned
               can bring such deed to thus avow
     lost love wrought on the sand

and tho' I wore a garland, brief
          so crowned for summer's death
               our love had withered as a leaf …
     'midst autumn's flaming breath.





Copyright © 2024 Wheelsong Books - “Melancholy Moon” by Gregory Richard Barden

( photographic art created copyright-free by the author with GALA AI software )

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