Best Odysseys Poems

Forth from the heaven, from the misty moorlands of all sacred woodland greens,
drop by drop by striking the pebbles and untouched vegetations oozes, 
the intoning...

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Wrapped into a cocoon of impenetrable meaning and faith he followed the light

Doom and gloom had once shadowed his library of dreams and contentment

Scattered in...

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When I’ve gone
to the place
where my fathers’
have gone before me 
and the last tribute
has been paid to my memory,
may my singing words
crack the silence with...

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Oregon's Octobers offer odysseys 
of opulent orange orchards
opening on overjoyed oaks.

10/25/19

For 'Tautogram' contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper

1st Place...

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Gravity keeps our feet on the ground,
Stops us from slapdash flying around.
This force of attraction ‘fictitious’ gives weight
And makes all fall down at equivalent rate.

(Albeit...

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O muse ... the lauded poet Homer called

to Odysseys 'cross time enthralled 

please tell the tale of warriors lost

of Troy's fall, of heart and of...

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dreary eyed, musky languor- tassels tight
a loose walk paraded by looser convictions
an acquaintance of that sad, lowly height
that alluded odysseys and several hymns

open window, surely...

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Staring into an empty sea-blue Picasso.
Winking,blinking and greasing my wet nose,
Trying to discerpher the rune in my upper 
torso.
To see, if I shall for once,...

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Stolen golden treasure chest
Dead man lying on his chest
Discarded like garbage
Because we act like we all savage
Eaten by vultures
As greed transcends cultures
Lying gypsies 
False omens...

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We want to enrich
     its atmosphere by planting trees
and anything that has
    roots. We also want to pump
some...

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Carolyn Devonshire
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Carolyn:  Commendable poet who composes cheerful charming comments.
Articulate, admirable, agreeable, author awards an absolute awakening.
Romanticism redeemed...

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Succintly free
Filling us daily with hope
Rewiring our brains
Engulfing hearing,tasting and smelling 
Enriching the visual field
Driving  our thoughts
Overpowering life’s pores
Maneuvering odysseys...

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What do you think
of the man peeing, the ever-shitting mouse?
Finding meaning in killing
and cleaning house.

Sal quit school,
your lover stops writing.
Eternity's waiting,
a lazy-eyed tiger.

Or everything's cool
even...

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Oval lines of opaque light

Violet tracing the universe

     Eons crossing; curving height

Magnetic Venus flares; coerce

     Iridescent sisters...

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the rhythmic waves
frothing to and fro
carry Middle Passage echoes
of journeying odysseys

the setting sun severs
the umbilical link
between Motherland
and her children in diaspora

reflecting grains of sand
catch crystalizing...

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