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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!

www.bahku.com

Thanks for stopping by my page - blessings!


Thinking Of You

Blog Posted:3/24/2020 1:54:00 PM

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My Dear Fellow Soupers -

I just want you to know that I am thinking of you, wishing you the best, and sending some love and positivity your way!

                                                   ~

(This was much longer originally, but I decided to make it short and sweet, as I am known to ramble here, but if you ever need an ear or want to say hi, please don't hesitate to Soup Mail me ... we are a community of very sensitive people, and I think the darkness of this pandemic has cast a shadow over us, one that we, of ALL folks, are capable of turning around, and setting the mature example with ... you are all so special, and we wield a powerful tool with which to facilitate positive change - individually AND collectively).

Blessings, Dear Ones!

 

the bard

 

 

 



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Date: 4/8/2020 1:57:00 PM
Hello Gregory R. Branden, thank you for the hug. i needed that today. I had a lack of sleep lat night.Thank you for the positivity it does help. I will look you up on Soup Mail. Thank you. Be safe.
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Date: 3/28/2020 7:05:00 AM
Thanks for your kind message. I hope you are well and safe. I do not have a lot of mental band width these days and am not keeping up with soup... be safe and stay well.
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Date: 3/27/2020 9:40:00 AM
Great idea, Greg! We cannot always contact each other! Fantasic idea! Panagiota xx
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Date: 3/26/2020 11:09:00 AM
Very nice blog. Both warm and timely. We can only pray that the virus stems. A blossom rises in it's place. And a garden, a bouquet, a Hallmark takes shape, and all of Earth comes together.
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Date: 3/25/2020 10:56:00 PM
hugs back at ya Greg, lets sing songs together, a toast to the poets.
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Date: 3/25/2020 9:19:00 PM
An uplifting message Greg, I hope you and everyone on here and of course all your families stay safe and well in these dark times we find ourselves in. Tom
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Date: 3/25/2020 7:25:00 PM
My best to you Greg, to everyone here. Thank you for the hug. Sending you a (((Hug))) along the wind. ~ Brandy
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Date: 3/25/2020 7:16:00 PM
I hope everyone stays safe
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Date: 3/25/2020 2:23:00 PM
Thank you to those who responded ... this was intended ONLY to let you know you're thought of and wished well, not as a fix or white-wash or placebo of any kind. Blessings. <3
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Robert Lindley
Date: 3/25/2020 7:05:00 PM
Sorry I am late to reply. You kind message is truly appreciated. And well understood in its kindness and true intent. God bless...
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Mark Koplin
Date: 3/25/2020 3:51:00 PM
A very nice message to send. I hope you are doing well. Be safe and keep the faith
Date: 3/25/2020 2:00:00 PM
Wonderful, Greg, during a very strange time in history. Thanks for the uplifting blog.
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Date: 3/25/2020 7:39:00 AM
Backatcha Greg
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Date: 3/24/2020 6:08:00 PM
Thank you, Greg, for sprinkling much-needed words of tenderness and compassion in this bewilderingly frightening world we currently find ourselves in. Your well-wishes and thoughtfulness is greatly appreciated by this close-knit community of poets. I'll definitely keep paying it forward. Have a blessed day, my poet brother. Stay well and safe out there!
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Date: 3/24/2020 4:31:00 PM
Greg, your staggering poetic talent is exceeded only by your immense heart. This post is timely, generous, and heartwarming. Your friendship is a really big reason I have made Soup my community, along with the many other kind, unselfish individuals here. I return the e-hug unreservedly. Thank you ~ John
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Date: 3/24/2020 3:51:00 PM
Thank you for your gracious and kind well-wishes, Greg. But especially the hug. I needed it! I agree with you and really feel that our worldwide brotherhood will grow stronger because of this. ~Mark
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Date: 3/24/2020 3:24:00 PM
- Thank you very much, Gregory ... take care of yourself stay healthy ... have faith :)
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Date: 3/24/2020 2:33:00 PM
It looks like the show is almost over here in the US. Soon it will be back to business for most folks but for the elderly and infirmed the plight will continue. Social distancing will become the norm. Realistically the world can not stay closed to business for ever. They have figured out that we already have medications to treat folks which will buy time to create a vaccine. We older folks will just have to be more careful. Do you think humanity has learned anything from this experience? Do you think nations will continue to study and develop new biological weapons? I think we all know the answer to these questions. Fact is, we seem to be very slow learners.
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Mark Koplin
Date: 3/26/2020 1:00:00 AM
Dogs are some of the best friends to hang out with. When I'm laying with all three of ours I feel right as rain.
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Daniel Turner
Date: 3/25/2020 9:28:00 PM
Of course there is a story behind that. I do not live in the town I was raised in. i did not move here until about 10 or so years ago. I have not met anyone here because I no longer play well with others. I have a friend in KC but I am disabled and I can not go visit. He works so he can not come visit. I still have some old friends in the town I was raised in but they all work too. i rarely see anyone other than my neighbors and we do not socialize. It's just me. my dog, and music and sometimes poetry.
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Mark Koplin
Date: 3/25/2020 5:23:00 PM
That’s sad, no friends
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Daniel Turner
Date: 3/25/2020 5:05:00 PM
No sir. I have no friends so I seldom leave my house.
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Mark Koplin
Date: 3/25/2020 4:26:00 PM
Do you know anyone who actually has it? I don’t know anybody that has it
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Daniel Turner
Date: 3/25/2020 3:53:00 PM
Arkansas 280 cases. people running around down here like nothing is happening If you don't test anybody, you won't have very many cases. That applies nationwide!
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Mark Koplin
Date: 3/25/2020 3:50:00 PM
What part of the US are you in Daniel? How many cases do you have?
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Craig Cornish
Date: 3/25/2020 7:49:00 AM
Reports as of yesterday have given very positive results from the recent use of the malaria drug both alone and combined. Although no clinical test results are in (they take time) we should have faith (have to have faith) that the best microbiologists are on this.
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Brian Strand
Date: 3/24/2020 3:12:00 PM
Daniel,are not the taxpayer and the economy one and the same thing?Please keep us posted here with news of how the 'coktails' are working out in reality
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Daniel Turner
Date: 3/24/2020 3:01:00 PM
Well Brian, it seems they are using cocktails, AIDS medications and malaria meds mixed. The American govt is more worried about it's economy than the welfare of it's taxpayers. The old and infirmed are expendable. The POTUS is wanting to be back at full strength by Easter.
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Brian Strand
Date: 3/24/2020 2:51:00 PM
You sound positive Daniel,( except for we 'aged ones!)What are the medications you refer to ?

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Zest May Our Love Say Dizaindesire,devotion,love,roma
Love of Nature Coupletnature,
The World Around Us Rhymeearth,environment,war,
Violin Free verselonely,muse,romance,roman
Aurora At Dawn Rhymebeauty,inspirational,morn
A Prince For Roseanne Rhymefantasy,
Picture Perfect Rhymeamerica,corruption,deep,p
The Ride Iambic Pentameterimagination,memory,sad,
A Candid Rainscape Free verseflower,imagery,nature,rai
Surely, I Shall Prosebirth,death,
It Don'T Really Matter Rhymefun,humor,love,
White Rainbows Imagismcolor,garden,imagery,
Amethyst Fate Ottava rimaflower,imagery,metaphor,
Behind Closed Doors - Emotive Write Rhymeabuse,bullying,house,lone
Love Lies Bleeding Rispettoflower,metaphor,
When Her Roses Bloom Romanticismlost love,rose,
As I Journey East Free versebeauty,journey,
Lost Childhood -Part 4- Rhymeabuse,child,child abuse,c
Broken Soldiers Rhymeage,humanity,soldier,
Cry For Wind Quatrainanalogy,animal,beautiful,
Freedom Is Written In Stars and Moon Free verseabuse,change,dark,freedom
Time Lost In the Current Verseemotions,fear,ocean,
Gutter Pavement Runway Flight Free verseaddiction,appreciation,da
Diamonds From the Sky Blank versebeautiful,beauty,desire,e
Pondering Castle Ruins At Dusk Free versebeauty,betrayal,
As the Year Matures Monorhymejune,
Yet Not Broken By the Blues Free verseanti bullying,holocaust,m
The Potter and the Clay Narrativechange,character,conflict
Starshine and Silhouettes Rhymebeauty,dance,desire,image
Touch - the healing Acrosticspiritual,
Autumn Royal Rhyme Royalautumn,sad,
Corridors of Uncertainty Chokaintrospection,
Hollow Man Rhymehappiness,introspection,i
Nestled Under Your Wings Free verseimagery,inspirational,upl
My Solitary Wandering Free versememory,solitude,
Late Summer Nights Dream At the Cat In the Hat Coupletimagination,nonsense,
Realization Sonnetlife,
Skipping a Stone Quatorzainimagery,nature,
Hoping That It Might Be You Lyricfriendship love,hope,long
Mawu Amongst Stars Sonnetbeauty,magic,memory,
Still I Run Villanelleautumn,death,truth,
From Sunset To Sunrise Rhymelove,
From Glory To Dust-2 Acrosticangst,confusion,corruptio
Miss Allegheny Mountain Monorhymeimagery,mountains,nature,
I Dance Prose Poetryabuse,dance,music,pain,
Poetry Rhymeart,meaningful,poetry,poe
Real Men Wear Pink Rhymecharacter,funny,humor,per
In Hindsight Rhymeage,love,
Dance of the Firebird Free versebeautiful,dance,sensual,
As Cold Sudden Rain Haikulove,nature,
Christmas Time Rhymechildhood,christmas,night
Rainless Clouds Pantoumblue,sad,
Worlds of Ice Free versedream,love,memory,sleep,w
Shadow Free verselost love,
A Lullaby Rhymeloneliness,lost love,natu
A Gift of Love Sonnetlove,mother,
Poets Rhymeappreciation,encouraging,
Falling From the Heights Sonnetdeath,
Midnight Romance Sonnetdesire,dream,imagery,long
Saturated In Solitude Rhymesolitude,
May Showers Contest Haikunature,rain,
When the Sun Drowns In the Sea Rhymelost love,
Sunset Lullaby Rhymebeauty,Lullaby,sunset,
Unsettled Sea Rhymenature,sea,sky,
Chasing the Man In the Moon Free verseabsence,childhood,father
Landscape - Beach Scene Quatrainart,
Ulan At Sinag Ng Araw: Pagmumuni Ng Isang Tulirong Isip Free verseangst,feelings,introspect
A Daydreamer's Love Rhymelove,passion,
46 Free versebereavement,brother,love,
Penny Hearts Rhymefirst love,valentines day
A Tear-Ful Conversation With My Daughter Free versei love you,i miss you,mot
To Know She Still Loves Me Rhymelove,
There'll Be No Rain Quatorzainchristmas,weather,winter,
Love Will Come To You Lyricintrospection,longing,lov
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Of Wizards and Wands Rhymejourney,
The Dark Side of Canada Free versehow i feel,
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Insomnia Rhymeanxiety,imagery,lonelines
Absinthe Leaves Ekphrasisautumn,imagery,sky,tree,
Moonlight Tango Dramatic Monologuedance,desire,men,moon,rom
The Hands of Time-Rondeau Rondeaudestiny,sleep,time,
Summer Love Sonnet Sonnetappreciation,nature,summe
Crystal Blue Waters Rhymenature,
Snow Falling Free versebeauty,winter,
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Last Words For This World Rhymeappreciation,death,earth,
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One More Morning Rhymedevotion,introspection,
A Child-Like Heart Free verseheart,inspiration,love,
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