Happy National Poetry Month 2025

Peace, peace, peace, ladies, and gentlemen this is your host poet 402 and I just wanna send a shout out to all the poets and the writers. Happy April! Happy National Poetry Month! So in honor of 30 for 30 I am

putting down my pen and a little bit of creative energy for this project here. Hope you guys enjoy the video underneath. The poem will be the written out under this post

Just a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, I am still working hard at the new book. If you’re following me on social media, I am putting up some videos about the title release, as well as giving thanks for some of the poets and writers and podcasters who are helping my in this word journey 

Thank you again for the support and remember comments are always welcome

so hey, don’t forget to leave a comment 😅

Morning Breath

Day 6

6th sense

Mark of the beast 

if you say it 

3x’s 

in the mirror

Paper storytellers 

verbal assassins 

creating images which 

add to the collective

call it love

Heart pounding passion

thumping the page 

protruding through 

the to-do list 

so hard,

some say we procrastinate 

too much

because the ache is 

too apparent to be 

silent 

Even the mute 

must express themselves 

through song

Spinning scenarios 

of tall triumphs &

dark damaging realities 

Some of the realest 

remain abandoned 

in back rooms 

fearing the weight 

of success

Several stanzas

slip from overactive 

imagination

onto the page &

out into 

the atmosphere

on a bright &

daring

day 6

Now inhale

deep inside your chest

© 2025 Clarence Barbee