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hope … dismay heaven, hell gods, mortality … love all live within us we create our own realities and we dwell there … oh, we are taught the tools for life - the skills we use to SHAPE that actuality, but we construct it to the dimensions and perspectives we find most acceptable - most apposite to our path, and build walls around it as necessary … I … (despite contrary inclinations) have allowed a choice few to breach that moat - a trestle, ladder, kiss, warm promise in my ear - only to find poison on their lips mirrors in their gaze and a rusted edge called ‘goodbye’ with which to cleave my endlessly credulous … nature. Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, May 11, 2024

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Kim Rodrigues

Date: 5/12/2024 2:08:00 PM

Lots of thoughts, open wounds, great poetry, my friend. Hugs ~ Kim

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 5/13/2024 2:07:00 AM

Thank you so kindly, Kim, I greatly appreciate it! It’s so nice to hear from you - wish I could be more active here, but life is just too crazy at present - selling my house, have a music project, and I have a three-book deal with a publisher in Great Britain … hoping to launch #1 in June - I’ll probably announce it here somehow, very excited about that. They will be titled “POETÍQ” with different subtitles and I’ll have a website under the same name. I thought I’d have to self-publish, so I’m very happy to not be responsible for all that publishing “stuff”, just selecting the poems. Book one will feature my sister’s amazing artwork. Hope you are well, my friend! <3