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I am a man of many interests - TOO many, I think, lol - and because of that I never gave writing the attention I should have when I was young. I started writing poetry in December of 2016, and joined Poetry Soup at the same time. I am currently working on an R&B/Soul album for a major label, so, as has usually been the case, poetry does not get the time I'd like to give it, (though I plan to change that in the future, and write a book-or-two, a sci-fi novel and an autobiography) ...

I like to incorporate classic styles and phrasing into a modern frame when I write poetry, and try to cover a wide range of genres, but I enjoy the darkly sensual the most, despite its limited audience. I hope you'll give my rather unusual style a chance, read a piece-or-two, and leave a comment, if you'd be so kind. I also hope you'll visit my music web site as well, (at the following address under my moniker "Bahku") - mostly (very) old recordings there, but also a snippet of the first single coming, and more new stuff soon!

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Rithimus Divisa Finalized

Blog Posted:5/1/2019 11:06:00 PM

Another contest stuffed with wonderful entries, and NO N/A's!! I was a bit more "relaxed" with my qualifications this time, and the differences between placements was very close, and came down to little things, (flow, rhythm, phrasing, etc.). The difference between 1st and second was even closer, and was decided by emotional impact primarily.

Congrats to all and thank you SO much for the treat and blessing of your amazing talents and wonderful writes ... I have been out straight lately with little time to read and comment, (one of my favorite things), so this gift of incredible poetry was like Christmas for me. What a privilege and honor to be among such wonderful writers and special folks - bless you all!

Please watch for my next contest, which will be a Free Verse version of Rithimus Divisa, (which I will also be running again in the not-too-distant future). Thank you, my friends!

- The Bard

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Connie
Marcum Wong

Date: 5/3/2019 12:15:00 PM

I understand how difficult it is to judge a contest Greg. I appreciate my placement in your contest and your blog. I will enjoy reading all the entries. Congratulations to all the winners. I look forward to finding an entry I can use for your next contest. Thank you for hosting this contest. I know how much time is entailed Greg. xxoo

Tania
Kitchin

Date: 5/2/2019 4:27:00 PM

Greg, thank you for your contest and my awesome placement! :)

Sandra
Haight

Date: 5/2/2019 2:06:00 PM

Thank you, Greg, for the unique contest and your uplifting blog. I agree with Andrea- a standalone verse is difficult to single out. I appreciate my placement and congrats to all your winners. Sandra :)

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 5/2/2019 12:52:00 PM

I loved this contest, Greg. Even with all my many poems, it was not that easy to track down a poem that had one quatrain I could use all alone. I look forward to reading all the winners. Thanks for my placement and congrats to all. Look forward to your free verse version of this one.

Nina
Parmenter

Date: 5/2/2019 11:46:00 AM

Sometimes it’s good to be reminded that “good” does not always equate to “blithering on for hours!” Short and sweet wins the day! Thanks for the contest and the place Greg!

Dear
Heart

Date: 5/2/2019 8:40:00 AM

Greg, thank you for an interesting contest and for my fine placement and congrats to all your winners and for this beautifully worded blog !

My Past Blog Posts


Rithimus Divisa Finalized Date Posted: 5/1/2019 11:06:00 PM
Strength Thru Adversity - My Last Premiere Contest Date Posted: 4/3/2019 2:53:00 PM
Movie Magic Contest Finalized Date Posted: 3/23/2019 9:11:00 PM
Movie Magic UPDATE Date Posted: 1/16/2019 5:43:00 PM
MERRY CHRISTMAS, MY SOUPER FRIENDS! Date Posted: 12/24/2018 8:22:00 PM
Happy Birthday, Nina! Date Posted: 12/12/2018 6:14:00 AM
The Dog Days Endure - Finalized Date Posted: 12/1/2018 3:41:00 AM
For Paradise, CA Date Posted: 11/19/2018 2:31:00 AM
'MY MUSE, MORTAL' JUDGED Date Posted: 8/21/2018 1:18:00 AM
QARINAGE - Results Posted Date Posted: 6/10/2018 9:27:00 PM
MINUANETTA - Results Posted Date Posted: 4/29/2018 11:46:00 AM
Not So, the Gifted Few Date Posted: 4/7/2018 2:20:00 AM
RUSSELL SIVEY Update Date Posted: 3/26/2018 6:24:00 AM
MINUANETTA CONTEST Date Posted: 3/11/2018 7:50:00 PM
Water & Sky Results Posted Date Posted: 1/24/2018 5:10:00 AM
Happy New Year & Thanks, Fellow Soupers! Date Posted: 1/1/2018 1:12:00 AM
HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY! Date Posted: 3/17/2017 7:16:00 AM

My Recent Poems

Date Posted	PoemTitle	Form	Categories
5/20/2019	Night Shoes	Free verse	appreciation,body,dance,m
5/20/2019	China Doll	Free verse	baby,childhood,dream,fath
5/19/2019	My Toofy Gwin	Rhyme	child,childhood,funny,hum
5/19/2019	Still, A Cold Rain	Verse	appreciation,christian,fa
5/18/2019	To Roam Midst Twilight Fells	Rhyme	dream,fantasy,imagination
5/16/2019	It's Back	Free verse	appreciation,body,sensual
5/15/2019	Precious Taaffeite	Rhyme	appreciation,beauty,color
5/13/2019	Hope's Harlequin	Free verse	heartbreak,lost love,love
5/11/2019	A Door In Paris	Rhyme	adventure,fantasy,fear,mu
5/11/2019	Ultraviolet	Free verse	analogy,appreciation,dark
5/11/2019	Hi-Hat	Cinqku	animal,appreciation,bird,
5/10/2019	We Wind Together, Stream and I	Rhyme	appreciation,beauty,fishi
5/10/2019	The Sojourn, Self	Rhyme	analogy,appreciation,intr
5/9/2019	Bobbing Bells	Triolet	appreciation,beauty,flowe
5/8/2019	Parentum Dolorum	Free verse	appreciation,child,childr
5/7/2019	A Curse, Human	Sonnet	analogy,fantasy,planet,sc
5/4/2019	The Longest Walk	Crystalline	analogy,change,love,metap
5/3/2019	Moonchild	Rhyme	child,childhood,fantasy,m
5/3/2019	Queen Anne's Lace	Etheree	appreciation,beauty,flowe
5/3/2019	Sail The Stars	Lyric	analogy,metaphor,spiritua
5/2/2019	Scrumptious	Free verse	body,love,metaphor,passio
4/30/2019	Snubs To Nubs	Free verse	confidence,dedication,ins
4/30/2019	Atonement	Rhyme	analogy,feelings,heart,lo
4/29/2019	Kiss Your Eyes	Couplet	appreciation,kiss,love,
4/27/2019	Whirlpool	Terza Rima	fantasy,history,mythology
4/27/2019	Cup O' Fancy	Free verse	analogy,imagination,life,
4/26/2019	Sacrifice Your Light For Me	Free verse	analogy,fantasy,imagery,l
4/26/2019	ND - If But Stone	Free verse	betrayal,conflict,fantasy
4/25/2019	Travel Light	Dramatic Verse	child,children,loss,war,
4/25/2019	I've Got Your Back	Free verse	crush,high school,longing
4/25/2019	What Is A Miracle	Free verse	appreciation,life,meaning
4/22/2019	Adventureland	Rhyme	appreciation,child,childh
4/22/2019	Hope, Hushed	Sapphic stanza	beauty,flower,longing,lov
4/22/2019	Wisdom Of Invictus	Quatrain	appreciation,confusion,in
4/20/2019	Anything But	Free verse	anger,break up,lost love,
4/19/2019	Soften, Spring	Rhyme	appreciation,nature,sprin
4/19/2019	Peepers Choir	Free verse	animal,appreciation,natur
4/19/2019	Last Hope	Free verse	goodbye,hurt,kiss,loss,lo
4/18/2019	Love, The Only Why	Free verse	analogy,child,father daug
4/18/2019	To Heal Thyself	Free verse	appreciation,death,love,s
4/17/2019	My Hot Drug, You	Free verse	analogy,drug,love,metapho
4/17/2019	Suddenly, Swans	Free verse	analogy,animal,appreciati
4/16/2019	Spring Hopes, Eternal	Diminished Hexaverse	appreciation,beauty,flowe
4/16/2019	RIP Nephyr E Nough	Epitaph	dad,eulogy,funny,
4/16/2019	Here Lies Brutha N Lauh	Epitaph	death,eulogy,family,funer
4/16/2019	Headed Home	Lanterne	home,longing,soulmate,tra
4/14/2019	Pirate Priorities	Limerick	fun,humorous,
4/14/2019	A Sultry Eve - Love Snippets 4	Free verse	body,desire,fun,love,pass
4/14/2019	It's Just A Job	Free verse	technology,violence,war,
4/13/2019	Mercy, Turned	Free verse	analogy,forgiveness,human
4/13/2019	I'm Afraid There's No Denyin'	Personification	beauty,flower,metaphor,sp
4/11/2019	Flames Die, Fawning	Free verse	analogy,beauty,fantasy,go
4/10/2019	Crime Of Passion	Free verse	analogy,betrayal,metaphor
4/10/2019	Not A Night For Dancing	Free verse	beauty,dark,moon,river,wa
4/9/2019	The Son Also Rises	Free verse	appreciation,christian,ea
4/8/2019	Your Absinthe Eyes	Lyric	beauty,love,metaphor,pass
4/7/2019	Stereotype	Free verse	analogy,art,muse,music,pe
4/6/2019	Grateful Gardener	Free verse	analogy,appreciation,chil
4/6/2019	Death's Cold Hand	Elegy	dark,death,fear,introspec
4/5/2019	Truth One	Free verse	analogy,death,life,wisdom
4/5/2019	Gone, Never Gone	Free verse	analogy,betrayal,lost lov
4/4/2019	Being Young	Rhyme	age,joy,love,passion,yout
4/4/2019	Strange Priorities	Free verse	appreciation,humanity,iro
4/4/2019	Return	Free verse	adventure,friendship,long
4/2/2019	Moment, Most Rare	Free verse	passion,sensual,soulmate,
4/1/2019	Forest Fires	Rhyme	analogy,life,memory,metap
4/1/2019	And Early To Rise	Personification	analogy,beauty,flower,lif
3/30/2019	Liberty, Lost	Free verse	betrayal,conflict,freedom
3/28/2019	Under the Pier II	Free verse	grief,loss,ocean,soulmate
3/28/2019	Spring Explosion	Haiku	health,humanity,nature,sp
3/28/2019	Racey Spacey	Clerihew	celebrity,metaphor,violen
3/28/2019	Under the Pier I	Free verse	loss,lost love,moon,night
3/27/2019	Bougainvillea	Free verse	analogy,death,flower,life
3/26/2019	Ribbon	Free verse	analogy,cancer,health,los
3/25/2019	The Smidget Puggily and Her Prettisome Guru	Free verse	fantasy,humorous,light,
3/24/2019	You Be the Judge	Free verse	analogy,appreciation,emot
3/23/2019	Gift of Glad - For Jan Allison	Limerick	appreciation,friendship,p
3/23/2019	Sky Afire - JQ	Jueju	appreciation,metaphor,moo
3/23/2019	Springtide	Lanterne	flower,life,spring,
3/23/2019	You Complete Me	Free verse	introspection,passion,sou
3/23/2019	Daffodil	Kimo	appreciation,beauty,flowe
3/23/2019	A Maine Refrain - The First Annual Poetry Soup Convention	Couplet	friendship,poetry,travel,
3/21/2019	Tender Blossoms	Rhyme	childhood,life,love,lust,
3/20/2019	A Gifted Pig Named Polly	Light Verse	animal,fantasy,flying,hum
3/20/2019	Lost, Not Gone	Free verse	appreciation,child,life,l
3/19/2019	Sands of Time	Rhyme	analogy,appreciation,deat
3/19/2019	Body Language	Senryu	analogy,body,language,met
3/18/2019	Going Green	Limerick	color,green,humorous,
3/17/2019	The Surge, Life	Sonnet	appreciation,beauty,envir
3/17/2019	El Capitan	Tanka	adventure,courage,earth,j
3/16/2019	Sleepy Seeds	Rhyme	dream,fantasy,Lullaby,sle
3/16/2019	My Little Book Worm - Love Snippets 3	Free verse	analogy,appreciation,book
3/14/2019	Heads Or Tails	Free verse	analogy,metaphor,
3/14/2019	Dream	Acrostic	dream,fantasy,imagination
3/13/2019	A Legacy Worth Bearing - FV	Free verse	appreciation,family,fathe
3/13/2019	I'm Always Right Here	Lyric	absence,death,life,loss,s
3/13/2019	Boundless	Lanterne	analogy,courage,flower,li
3/12/2019	A Scraping of Shovels	Free verse	analogy,death,memory,
3/12/2019	Legend's Last Moon	Free verse	fantasy,moon,myth,nature,
3/12/2019	War Postponed - No Clouds	Free verse	celebrity,film,nostalgia,

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Fav Poems

PoemTitle	Form	Categories
A Midsummer Night's Beach	Free verse	beauty,color,creation,sea
Joy May Our Love Say	Dizain	desire,devotion,love,roma
Highveld Storm	Rhyme	break up,longing,
The World Around US	Rhyme	earth,environment,war,
The Ride	Iambic Pentameter	imagination,memory,sad,
Never Shame a Woman	Quatrain	passion,women,
Surely, I Shall	Prose	birth,death,
Cry For Wind	Quatrain	analogy,animal,beautiful,
Love of Nature	Couplet	nature,
AURORA AT DAWN	Rhyme	beauty,inspirational,morn
My Big Fat Gypsy Poem	Rhyme	humor,marriage,wedding,
A Prince for Roseanne	Rhyme	fantasy,
Picture Perfect	Rhyme	america,corruption,deep,p
It don't really matter	Rhyme	fun,humor,love,
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS - EMOTIVE WRITE	Rhyme	abuse,bullying,house,lone
Broken Soldiers	Rhyme	age,humanity,soldier,
I DANCE	Prose Poetry	abuse,dance,music,pain,
Love will come to you	Lyric	introspection,longing,lov
Violin	Free verse	lonely,muse,romance,roman
Gutter Pavement Runway Flight	Free verse	addiction,appreciation,da
The Potter and the clay	Narrative	change,character,conflict
Worlds Of Ice	Free verse	dream,love,memory,sleep,w
May Showers Contest	Haiku	nature,rain,
Time Lost In The Current	Verse	emotions,fear,ocean,
Yet not broken by the blues	Free verse	anti bullying,holocaust,m
Lost Childhood -Part 4-	Rhyme	abuse,child,child abuse,c
Freedom Is Written In Stars And Moon	Free verse	abuse,change,dark,freedom
Diamonds From The Sky	Blank verse	beautiful,beauty,desire,e
Starshine and silhouettes	Rhyme	beauty,dance,desire,image
Hollow man	Rhyme	happiness,introspection,i
From glory to dust-2	Acrostic	angst,confusion,corruptio
Rainless Clouds	Pantoum	blue,sad,
Landscape - Beach Scene	Quatrain	art,
What Poetry Is	Free verse	imagery,poetry,words,
A Candid Rainscape	Free verse	flower,imagery,nature,rai
White Rainbows	Imagism	color,garden,imagery,
Amethyst Fate	Ottava rima	flower,imagery,metaphor,
Love Lies Bleeding	Rispetto	flower,metaphor,
TOUCH -Sharon's Acrostic contest	Acrostic	spiritual,
my solitary wandering	Free verse	memory,solitude,
MAWU AMONGST STARS	Sonnet	beauty,magic,memory,
Real Men Wear Pink	Rhyme	character,funny,humor,per
POETS	Rhyme	appreciation,encouraging,
Sea of Love	Rhyme	love,love hurts,sea,
Collateral damage	Dramatic monologue	character,courage,freedom
The Pearl	Free verse	beauty,blue,love,moon,nig
Morning Cues	Verse	beautiful,
Words-The Heart of Imagination	Free verse	universe,words,
He Has My Heart	Verse	art,longing,lust,passion,
July	Free verse	summer,
Transition to Death - Part I	Free verse	absence,anger,dark,death,
a night of passion	Couplet	happiness,lust,passion,ro
The Stars and Beyond	Sestina	space,stars,
For the Fisher King on His Golden Jubilee	Sonnet	birthday,friend,
NEVER TO BE MINE	Free verse	grief,i miss you,memorial
GOODBYE, MY LOVE	Verse	death,goodbye,
Be Yourself	Free verse	confusion,courage,emotion
A Kiss Remembered	Rhyme	love,
as cold sudden rain	Haiku	love,nature,
In Silence	Personification	autumn,death,
O, the murmuring waves --	Verse	spiritual,
Snow Falling	Personification	beauty,winter,
Realization	Sonnet	life,
You Echo, Silent Still	Free verse	lost love,
DESPICABLE	Free verse	abuse,evil,girl,
Insomnia	Rhyme	anxiety,imagery,lonelines
For the Love of Poetry	Blank verse	poetry,poets,words,
Rape	Free verse	abuse,
ulan at sinag ng araw: pagmumuni ng isang tulirong isip	Free verse	angst,feelings,introspect
Chasing the man in the moon	Free verse	absence,childhood,father
Miss Allegheny Mountain	Monorhyme	imagery,mountains,nature,
Mister Joe Jangles	Free verse	poetry,poets,
I am Every Woman	Bio	beauty,deep,emotions,enco
LAKE'S MUSIC	Free verse	peace,river,song,
Moonlight tango	Dramatic monologue	dance,desire,men,moon,rom
Shadow	Free verse	lost love,
Memories, In The Silent Dust	Prose Poetry	childhood,nostalgia,old,
If I Let My Mind Meander	Free verse	lost love,metaphor,
What Might Have Been	Verse	lost love,
Late Summer Nights Dream at the Cat in the Hat	Couplet	imagination,nonsense,
46	Free verse	bereavement,brother,love,
INDIAN PIPE	Blank verse	death,nature,
Collecting teardrops	Free verse	friendship,lost,
Under the Stars	Verse	autumn,poetry,romance,sta
HIS EVENING'S MYSTERY	Lyric	love,mystery,
As I Journey East	Free verse	beauty,journey,
As the Year Matures	Monorhyme	june,
When I No Longer Love You	Romanticism	love,romance,
Fated Hell	Monorhyme	death,destiny,evil,
Love's Eternal Death	Sonnet	emotions,lost love,
One Last Time	Free verse	lost love,
Prisoner Of Words	Free verse	metaphor,poetry,words,
Laws Of Attraction	Free verse	abuse,addiction,forgivene
When Her Roses Bloom	Romanticism	lost love,rose,
Crystal Blue Waters	Rhyme	nature,
Poetry	Rhyme	art,meaningful,poetry,poe
Nestled Under Your Wings	Free verse	imagery,inspirational,upl
A Chorus Sang Its Last Concerto	Elegy	beach,emotions,
Dance of the Firebird	Free verse	beautiful,dance,sensual,
AUTUMN ROYAL	Rhyme royal	autumn,sad,

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