Best Passionless Poems

I have forgotten you
Said she, trying to be true
Hiding away her wounds
In her wrecked mood

And there he stood
With that look
Being crude
Not caring of her droop

He...

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I remember it so clearly,
The first time I saw you.
You said you loved my aviators.

Our meeting was so ordinary,
And having nothing witty to say
I just...

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THE PASSIONLESS REVOLUTIONARY


A ragged impulse – the scrivener’s tetch
truncated our conversation on the working
class.  Your brief was their craft
was their art, which liberation lost
to...

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All alone you sit there in grip of graveyard, hosting demonic thoughts,
Listening to cries of tombstones, squalling from lovers’ somber epitaphs,
Recounting how you chased prospects,...

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O fickle moon,
caretaker of souls 
who chase their dreams 
across the skies you
waver now, and waste away
in quiet desperation;
night surrenders to the light 
as reveries...

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"Petrichor "



Two minds 
have made an entrance
magnetic bodies electric
minions babble 
it’s just wasted white noise
sandpaper against back stories hit
The Wall of Wasted Time
He’s read most...

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It is not the music,
for one knows it in the heat
that rises from a cool miasma,
sardonic, self-igniting--
the one that ravages and never warms,
consumes, and cannot...

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O fickle moon!
caretaker of souls 
who chase their dreams 
across the heavens you

waver now, and waste away
in quiet desperation;
night surrenders to the light 
and reveries...

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O fickle moon!
caretaker of souls 
who chase their dreams 
across the heavens you

waver now, and waste away
in quiet desperation;
night surrenders to the light 
and reveries...

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Without fiery passion, 
there is no poetry – Oh,
there are jingles of sorts!
jingles of naughts – 
Limericks so on, and on 
and on – Rhymes...

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Where the Railroad Track Meet 

Grasping, lunging as does a donkey for the
dangling apple leading it forward, I reached
for the ever elusive spot.  That...

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1. God - Passionless Love

lotus blossoms float
waves of fireflies light night air
hold you in my arms

2. Jesus - Executive Summary

sex sex sex sex sex
sex sex...

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Reciting prayers,
Body splayed across the floor,
Reaching for heaven.

Knees gnarled and bent,
Mouth calloused from oration,
Hands clasped tightly shut.

Passionless faith is,
Just ceaseless recitation,
Magic doomed to fade....

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Donor Cozeners
            by Odin Roark

Seduction eased into town long ago,
Thought to be natural.
It was
Praised...

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Thus says He who guards the gate,
The atmosphere is stagnant,
Stagnant with discontented gluttons,
Tangled with tricks and deceptions,
Soaked with indoctrination,
And charged with foul breath. 

Thus says...

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