Best Liberum Poems

As I search to adorn my naked thoughts in nacreous chic,
   
   breathing bliss and sipping soulful seas,
      
     my wild whimsy in wanderlust glides like an albatross

 seeking the iridescence of...

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One of the keys to happiness is mental quietness
The splendor of a full moon hung in the darkness
Orchards of lovely colors and textures, readiness.
Delightful rapt echoes of a vivacious life sweetness


Juin 1st, 2021    


(Lines from my free verse poem, ‘Peacefulness’)


Liberum Divisa 6...

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Now, each day poses limitless opportunities for stress and strain -
New directions, new pains, new worries, brand-new doors open
Before older squeaky ones have closed, yesterday's problems
Had been mulled over, firmly grasped, solved, and cast aside.


Stanza from "Perspective on Time Passing"
for "Liberum Divisa" poetry contest
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Reprisals are sharp thorns from stabbing tongues
   causing deep wounds that may never heal.
Regrets are sown in the seams of a guilty mind
   where no salve can reach, and scars remain.



November 16, 2021  ~  Liberum Divisa 8 Contest
Taken from...

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The pond sparkles, still pristine. Tossing off shoes, socks, shirts and shorts,

my sisters and I race each other – giggling school girls once more -

to see who will be first to feel again its cool, sweet water on our skin.

Fifty years fade away as we...

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And with the forged visage of thunder's sword
Her sentry slays monsters of gray
Freeing astral blooms to spark and blaze
Across the brief November sky.

9/01/21

Liberum Divisa 7
Sponsor: Gregory Richard Barden
Taken from 'Brief November'...

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Nakedness blurs in the rough charcoal smudge 
  
shapes shaded with a roll on the rim of a graphite night 
     
 the art of cheating sins stain a seedy portrait on skin 

     yet basks...

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By blue degrees, she drowns slowly
Waiting on skies which never clear
While she cuts holes in paper souls
Calling pain by prettier names

11/16/21

taken from 'Price of Paradise'

Liberum Divisa 8 contest
Sponsor: Gregory Richard Barden...

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Memories of Summer 

As the gilded leaves of Autumn sigh,
I’m haunted by the shadow of a long lost love.
I’ll always remember the soft song of a summer breeze…
from golden days when we were carefree butterflies.



Date:  05-02-2019

Contest:       Liberum Divisa...

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You shall look and seek at the empty bench
Run to the forest path enter in running__fast
But I shall be gone, raptured by__ the poem
The poem that I was not allowed to write in the past

Taken from my poem: A Kiss Instead 6/9/2010
Date: 12-02-2020 __ Raptured
Contest:...

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My parcel of quietude becomes yours
while we listen to the same monastic silence,
gazing at clouds alone and  together
until we rest lovingly inside our gentle, holy world.


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Gregory R. Barden's Liberum Divisa Contest
Posted 05/04/2019
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Excerpt from ' Anything Goes On A Sunday '
Originally written 12/29/2016...

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A bridge was crossed, and when I count
the things I've lost,  
you come to mind,
a ship at sea, searching for its ghost.




4/24/2021
Originally in Bridges Of The Past 
Liberum Divisa 5 contest 
Sponsor: Gregory R Barden...

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Images of broken dreams~
   scattered along the pavement; 
          Shall I pick them one by one, 
or simply walk barefooted over them?
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December 12, 2020


1st stanza of my poem, Images
Liberum Divisa 3 Poetry Contest(Premiere)
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In wonder, count the petals of a flower
Be amazed, probe a chambered nautilus.
Walk backwards out of Fibonacci's Spiral
Into eternal embrace with enlightenment.


From Walking Into Enlightenment
Gregory R Barden's Contest  10/25/20
Liberum Divisa 2...

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Let is flow like runny honey your sweet creativity,
                 Let is shine all sublime your original artistry.
        For you have your place...

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