Hi my name is Barbara, I'm from South Carolina and I love to write. Helium affords me the opportunity to express myself. Even though my eyes won't allow much reading, I enjoy having a place to write, publish my work and watch the rating go up.

My passion is ...

Writing Poetry and Singing

I know too much about ...

Nothing

My parents always told me ...

Treat people the way you would like to be treated

My childhood ambition ...

Grow up strong like my mother

My favorite memory ...

My Dad teaching me how to two step

Why I write ...

My way of releasing stress in life struggles

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

My car radio, mostly listen to music, while writing poetry

My first job ...

Seamstress

My best moment ...

The birth of my four children, Two Boys and Two Girls

My inspiration ...

The God Almighty

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: The long walk home

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The Lost Traveler

She travel distant lands
searching for things not there
wells flowing underground
waters untouched

She drift in and out
thinking it's there for drinking
realizing at the bottom of the cistern
lakes has since dried up

Trees fall
she stumbles aimlessly like blind dogs
lapping up crumbs
among shattered dreams

Avid she wander
starve in the wee hours of the night
with no one to hear her
final inhales

Somewhere behind the rainbow
along the highways on the mountain tops
a lonely country girl sits staring at a half moon
on a abandoned dusty road ...

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