Short Swum Poems

We have flown the air like birds
and have swum the seas like fishes,
but have yet to learn the simple act of
walking this earth as brothers and sisters....

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Been having nightmares, each night it's the same
Wake up wanting to attack, murder and maim
A psycho I've become
Into the abyss I have swum
Right and left halves have joined hemis in my cerebrum...

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Been having nightmares, each night it's the same
Wake up wanting to attack, murder and maim
A psycho I've become
Into the abyss I have swum
Right and left halves have joined hemis in my cerebrum...

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Been having nightmares, each night it's the same
Wake up wanting to attack, murder and maim
A psycho I've become
Into the abyss, I have swum
Right and left halves have joined hemis in my cerebrum...

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swimming in a sea of unfelt 
reality, i happen to chance upon
your ship and down it goes, lost
on my tides, left without direction
in this unforgiving time of not-
yet-free, not-yet-sane, but fully
aware and alive are we as we
sink once more...

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Eva Sweenie swum in a raw
                                  And made a she-fish her foe
                                     Oh, each cursed each
                                          A pig or a bitch
                                 They got a roe deal for sure...

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Lewis was only born in April 2000, 
So when he swum to bronze at Rio, 
He’d just sat his GCSEs, he’d done well: 
He had 400m freestyle momento. 

He was born with no right hand,
He made his Paralympic debut at Rio, 
Because in the S9 100m freestyle, 
2016 Euros, he won a silver centavo....

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I have swum
The limitless abyss
Of your eddying indigo eyes
And yet ...
There are other
Deep, dark boundaries to delve
Of the landscape, You
Just as enigmatic
And just ...
As warm.




~ 1st Place ~  in the "Late December 2018 Any Form" Poetry Contest, Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor....

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so many moons have danced a-sea

          and swum in eyes, entrancing me

               but such dear blessings pale to one -

     the chance to rise with each new sun.









Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, October 6, 2023

( photo of sunrise at Portland Headlight taken by Gregory R Barden 1974 )...

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DID YOU?

Did you ever care?
Did you ever love
Me as I loved you,
With a true desire 
To make me happy?

I would have walked
A thousand miles,
Swum the oceans,
To be with you

To hold you,
Caress you,
To love you

But no,
You left

20th June 2022
Diminished Hexaverse contest your choice of subject
Sponsor - Caren Ktutsinger

Me...

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Thank you Lord for walking with me
Through the shadowed vales and valleys,
Holding when I blindly stumble
Until flagging spirit rallies.
When you take the larger burden
Relieving me of its great heft;
You ask only that I carry 
The modest portion that is left

Now that I’ve survived the danger
And have now safely swum to shore,
I know big waves would have swamped me
Had you not lifted me once more....

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A Florida man on a dive
was swept out to sea, still alive.
To his friends' great relief,
he had swum to a reef;
the joy they felt, hard to describe!

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A happy tale, when a man was dragged by currents and missing for over two hours, family and friends took a boat to a favorite place of his and found him in the channel near the reef. All ended well for a Florida man for a change!
...

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Gold fish


On my vision and swum one
Sprawls the heart of those humans
Ah! They say funnily
Not knowing my stay 
Why? In such a way.

What matters only viewing outside colour?
Innerly they knew me I’m fish ever
They want to keep me in aquarium
Construing a four wall of transparent

Limiting me within four feet boundary.
Treasured only to provide them pleasure
I’m with my fate not happy always
Waiting time to get old in the slap of time....

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