- Poetry is not unaffected - listen to
the sound of heartbeats -

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And to the Universe … for the sake of little things … and heartbeats … and precious breaths … thank you
- Gregory Richard Barden, Monday, August 3, 2020, 11:58 PM, Littlejohn Island, Yarmouth, ME

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Poets are heartbeats of hope that are often heard in the breaths of dreams.

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Dawn's opened her eyes inside loving heart*
Making her entrance, across the dark bay*
Yawns from baby ducks getting their first start*Waking cries, as mothers lay at their sway*Spawns of light upon the stage, cast and part*Staking claim to heartbeats of a new day*Nature's an eye-opener, start to end*Captures the sight of mankind as its penned

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The most beautiful music is the synchronized heartbeats...

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Why this heart slips into the ocean of loneliness every now and then....why it recaptures scenes from the past....a past that is hard to believe ...a past that is far from relief... It brings me sorrow and painful thoughts...thoughts which my soul is scared of ...past ..as I remember of it now feels like a journey of thousand miles..coming at a halt all of a sudden....a feeling of losing......losing everything that I cherished till now ...even my heartbeats are not mine now...

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Counting heartbeats with the wrong fingers but finding a pulse stronger than ever, anyway

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