Gregory Richard Barden Poet Rondeau

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to paint with words

to paint with words and colored phrase
          we breathe new speech and set ablaze
               the hearts once cooled bereft their fire
     now brought to life through told desire
and splashing verse in poignant praise

our canvas aches to speak the ways
          we'll shape the bourgeois to amaze
               and through our poems we thus aspire
     to paint with words

we fill our nights and start our days
          by finding tropes to bright rephrase
               the common things our lives require
     and if we're blessed perhaps inspire
another soul that greets our gaze ...
         to paint with words.




Copyright © 2019 Gregory Richard Barden

( photographic art by Donatella Marraoni taken from public domain files at FreePik / Flickr )

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