Best Oxen Poems

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
       by Odin Roark

Corners to peer around
The harlequin of angles
Where peeking
Reveals
Where being stuck
Confines
Where feeling trapped
Separates

Our remembered child stands
Eyes squeezed shut
Face buried where two walls meet
Counting to one-hundred

While confidence sought
To play out our innocence
Beneath
Behind
Beside
A trusted game
Waned

Time passed
Shorts...

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Whit dat tight till - say
yes, aye wool thank ewe
mooch at least for today
hoof fully (this Joe kerr)
can easily bide his time weigh
beef hoar rammy cows come home.

Meantime India interim
lemme clover - reaching
far out on dam moost precarious limb,
bot do nut inspect me tub bark...

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God said to humankind prosper and subdue the Earth and all that is upon it.
So does the farmer harness oxen, and together they labour to satisfy his hunger.

Then man said to god, these tender woman you made are for me, and my pleasure.
So does the...

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Ollie Ollie oxen free
Do you dare to come out and play with me
the stakes are high
and your odds are slim
are you sure you want to bet on them
long ago i was young and naïve
It must have been easy to deceive me
well times have changed
but the...

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