Best Fortressed Poems

Let true love find me to be the ever fixed mark of constant gaze
The spectacle of her thrilling eyes, and she to me the dearest...

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Spawned from the loins that 
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims...

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Clever queen, I maneuvered my way through all of the subtle and most obvious plays 
Masterfully 
Sensual aestheticism, sexual teetotalism, romanticism, sadism, masochism, hedonism 
Calculating...

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Tireless Universe
                    by Odin Roark

Time defies...

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On caparisoned, filleted camels do they 
Over the great, soft, tawny sands 
Ride;
Unfurled flags and tribal standards flown amidst them, 
In the very midst of...

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Candle Whispers

Moths and other creatures
find peril in hovering
especially above seductive candle flame

Yet

We sentient beings
hover not
instead
keep vigil over imagined messages
awaiting the magic
the comfort of vision

As we...

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(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad)     © 2009 (Jim...

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Fragile: Handle with Care
We write in bright red
On the boxes that carry
Our treasured breakables
Fragile…..

Our human souls
Wrapped in all kinds of protective material
Some of which look...

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“TULIPTUOUS” ( A Poem With Fourteen Lines)
            (To my LIVING TULIP)

Everywhere tulips
That’s what i...

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Orphaned Pebbles
                 by Odin Roark

Atop so many ebbs and...

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Tomorrow came a day too late
Held fast beneath a Tyrant's hand
Who lied in Corporate "Double Speak"
With blooded swords and lightening bolts
In languages forgotten
Long before the...

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how can a speck of dust
comprehend     the universe
in all its glory        and majesty
I am...

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There Once Did Live...
                     ...

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Honoured is our kin 
fed with a sliver spoon
bred and reared in Elysium.
Swith is he, an ironic typhoean _
(he 'l be)- Our immerse hero..
So will...

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Viewing eternity with faith’s vision 
my spirit zooms to celestial city
exploring fortressed mansion of great love
secured upon gracious peace-filled freedom
constructed by the sovereign Architect.
 
Along...

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