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hot air balloon, clouds, flying, adventure, sky, floating, dom, travel, balloon, cloud - sky | Pxfuel

pressed ... kind as a criminal your cold kisses clamped shut - like a thousand stiff arms they walled me in ... I was your dirigible, soaring promises made in passion and dreaming (my horrid err) the slender ropes you clung to braided with expectation pulling ... pulling ... pulling ... hope, rusted by your greedy weep and the shine of love turned to weight like iron - you would give your breaths, all, to keep me from the stars, and I would waste those precious wonders ... to keep you from your breaths.

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Sam Kauffman

Date: 7/22/2021 10:17:00 AM

Hey Greg - congratulations on this pensive, emotive poem. The image of the hot air balloon is so unique and very creative - just your style! Blessings my friend. Hope you are well.

Robert Lindley

Date: 7/13/2021 1:22:00 PM

as reading such poetry stirs me to compose a new poem today, even tho' the day first started as a very dark and gloomy flower wilted by the fiercest frost. As a poison arrow festering in the heart of an old and dying warrior. Yet light and illumination can oft come and the world then must suffer the renewed energy and inspiration that it births to counter the world's rampaging and savage darkness, its howling cries for more destruction and sorrows..

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 7/16/2021 1:03:00 AM

Thank you so kindly, Robert - as you can see, you are the only person who comments anymore ... very discouraging, but I will keep writing ... for now. Blessings, my friend.

Robert Lindley

Date: 7/13/2021 1:17:00 PM

You my friend, so rind me of these three truly magnificent poets, Byron, Shelley and Keats... Such verses as gifted to us in this awesome new creation, to me bears the golden marks and heart of such golden poets of old. And that my friend, is the highest honor that a modern poet can ever achieve, imho. A fav.. God bless....