Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Free verse

Lost Lake Odessa

My world spins round
too fast most times
from Greek deep roots
on Black Sea ports
crossing Jordan's River
on Catherine's Great
trains meet sailboats
greeting sea planes
flying off to sports unknown
throughout Lake Odessa Highway.

Where Ottomans
blend Spanish matadors,
heroes for Earth's day
and night bleeds forth
a calvary of SunGod force
to please titillating whims
of Lake Odessa's middling class czarinas.

I can't go home again
to straight places never born.

My mind can wavey roam
and try to swim
and fly to where and what
and whom and why
we might have been
if we had built
a fine fair fortress
for peace that loves to rock
and sing sad songs
of what brilliant sights have been
in resilient Lake Odessa.

Instead of gangs
and clicky clacks
we learn monopolistic quacks
to flap and honk 
like disturbed Canadian geese

Transubstand she ate
where great America
begins to end
through Lake Odessa's mean clean streets

Not too busy
self-righteous
sleep deprived
and deprogrammed lose to lose
to win our way
back home again
where Lake Odessa healthy meets
and wealthy greets

Love's polyamorous EarthMother role 
as played by odysseys of We
writing comic operas
only eros kids can consensually see
was what Me loved
most secretly
in long lost Lake Odessa.

We need a better god for now
bringing peach tree jams
singing immortality
of love as healthy wise

Reframes lost unwealthy loves
to live in jesting jarring jokes
of honeyed sweet corn
thorn tested streets
tasting ancient salad Greeks
on shores of Lake Odessa.

We reunion back
to save each other
from what might have been
without sly rudders

Tipping posts from wu wei mothers
restoring crystal castle love
of unformed flows 
that buzz with lifetime mystery
and retiring tours 
that sag with straightline history

Spinning sprays 
bewitching licking waves
lapping soft and sandy
on long gone sacred skies
of sanguine Lake Odessa.

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