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Best Obviating(A) Poems

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Premium Member Obviating need to forgive
first stirred expectation, then denial
shroud of negativity, a dark cloud
betrayed we reacted, soul contracted
shattered was our heart that once stood so proud

feeling alone, despondent and...

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Categories: obviating(a), forgiveness, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Quatrain



The Resurrection
It is not the case that Jesus ever physically rose from the dead,
Only that he was spoken of as alive afterwards by his followers, 
Because...

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Categories: obviating(a), body, christian, death, easter,
Form: Quatrain
Benin
A mass of grey and rusted silver strewn
By the sky god from sifted appurtenances.
Preserve of ancients jousting with modernity,
Behind edifice a disperse of brimming slums
With...

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Categories: obviating(a), africa, art, conflict, confusion,
Form: Verse
The Resurrection
It is not the case that Jesus ever physically rose from the dead,
Only that he was spoken of as alive afterwards by his followers, 
Because...

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Categories: obviating(a), christian, god, health, history,
Form: Quatrain
The Drunken Elements
The midnight sea, 
Seeps through me, 
Departing me from melancholy.

Into thy branches of blissful breeze, 
Within a ray of sunshine enclosing;
thee by sensual Symphony.

Beneath thine...

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Categories: obviating(a), addiction, fantasy, feelings, happiness,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Spartan Riches
Spartan Riches
                by Odin Roark

Creation asks not for center stage

How...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obviating(a), creation,
Form: Free verse
Role Reversal
If teachers were students,
They would certainly be prudent.
 
When they would get a teacher free class,
They would certainly be seriously studious.
 
None to dictate and...

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Categories: obviating(a), childhood, funny, parody, school
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Colorless Tears
Colorless Tears
               by Odin Roark

What is it to see
but never emerge...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obviating(a), innocence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hesitation
Hesitation has two colourations
First being our ego calculation
The other, cessation in wonderment 
Delight of our childlike astonishment 
Former contraction, latter expansion 

Let time stretched stillness...

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Categories: obviating(a), muse,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member An Oceanless Beach
An Oceanless Beach

What is it to see 
but never emerge from the dark? 

Children marvel at color, 
movement, 
perception, 
not knowing 
control mongers await them,...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obviating(a), philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rashomon Effect
Rashomon effect, birthing confusion
Spawning divergent interpretations 
Each stage actor, being far from perfect
Narrates storyline, riddled with defect
Swollen egos, dwelling in delusion 

Feel good factor, self...

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Categories: obviating(a), truth,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Five New Year Resolutions
“When centred presence, by employing free will, grants love consent
Resolutions we make, as prayers to the universe, reflect pure intent”  
~ Quote by poet
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Being...

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Categories: obviating(a), new year, spiritual,
Form: List
Premium Member Freedom vs Order: Competing Constructs
Freedom with far    Freedom with         Order with less      Order...

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Categories: obviating(a), destiny, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Reveal
Reveal pure heart, our fears conceal
Else forgo love and light
Ego bound by the karmic wheel
Knowing not wrong from right

Flowing in bubbling mirth 
Meek will inherit...

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Categories: obviating(a), integrity, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Consciousness Expansion
With Sushumna ignited
In bliss throes delighted
As we come undone
No doing need be done
And yet
Lest we forget
As we feel ecstasy within
We recognise need to re-begin
Obviating need...

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Categories: obviating(a), spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things