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Thus and So

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.

Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden | Year Posted 2021

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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. Login to Reply

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.. Login to Reply 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.... Login to Reply