Notes About The Poem
For those made weary by life’s noise, dreams often feel like the go-to reality.
Awakening the Dream
Awakening the Dream
by Odin Roark
Even in a dream
A poet’s page
Starts blank
Restlessly
The inscrutable pen hovers
Awareness preparing absorption
Like a dry valley of nature
Awaiting tributaries to ripple convergence
A lake to be
Remaining patient
Unaddressed questions resurface
Even as pebbles hamper flow once again
Rocks demand navigation
And boulders bent on containment
Concede the rush into reservoirs
Expression’s pause
Ellipsis of control
Fails holding back the surge of ink to paper
As grammar’s first trickle bodes further volume
Restless verbs urge images forward
A tide of willingness waits
Wanting complete its existence
Around mind’s shoreline
Animation commences cautiously
Needing to quench
Parched wanderings
Staying ever mindful
Poisoning is often invisible
Unexpectedly
This once empty page
Experiences a downpour
Cooling passion’s vacillating temperatures
Into pastels of emotion
Urging hard layered resistance
Into malleable thought
Pauses and stops
Commas and periods
Paragraphs of reason and compassion
Flow freely
Like spillways of a dam
For some
The purge of resolve
Often disappoints
How delicate such a dream
Excruciating at times
Often revealing once invisible sentences
To correct lingering mistakes
Awakening retains echoes
The waning past remaining familiar
Like battlefields of regret
Unpunctuated sentences
Forever fragments of one’s war
Such a dream’s ending
Always makes known
The expectant pen
Forever willing to just be held
Demanding nothing
Merely to remain
A trusted friend
Knowing at times…
It is the only friend
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