Best Studiously Poems

I‘d been staying with pa - my folks got a divorce
and pa took me to the local greyhound course 
Pa’s greyhound was running, he runs...

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Novelists and Nobodies

Ah, now this my domain, the library
Where cultures collide.

Men of leisure reeking from their latest dumpster dive
mingling with men in leisure suits studiously...

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9/22/2023

      Just like the lake of melting wax, on a candle gives off light,
      Life...

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Unclimbed Stairways
              by Odin Roark

At the base of the stairs
He lay on...

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THE CRYSTAL PALACE


The gods awoke, as they occasionally do,                ...

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"The Vagaries"

You could go all Zen over Me,
I’d listen studiously, then, spit it out 
like cherry seeds for integration

the flesh of it all,
"The Past", savoured;
"The...

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the following quite quirky epistle may not exhibit the ordinary characteristics of poetry, but i decided to share this self made challenge (where every word...

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Look at you standing there,
intent on getting a foot in the door,
to be let in from the street.
Ardent solicitor, gentleman of the road.
Alas! But you...

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All one can do is sit silent and smile when knowing that most 
Everything is aligned and lying within the bed of, insane...
They say, the...

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This free verse was written from an agnostic point of view 
so may appear biased, against organised religions
I assure you this is not my intention,...

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Anything For YOU

I poetized your name on the sky with my blood as the ink
I kept my eyes frozen to admire the beauty of your...

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i saw the devil as doubt and my mind relaxed and recoiled at the thought eyes studiously staring at each flaw finding reason to turn...

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Jesus, I saw you hanging there alone
Like truth that needs neither props nor supports
Deserted by your studiously chosen apostles and
Disowned by Peter, James and his...

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I know, not, what I have done 
singing songs, joyfully created 
did they physically fund
more cognitive understanding 
or less inner and outer reality
did the dancing...

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darling dimpled dervishes
dancing delightfully 
ghouls goblins gargoyles
gabbing, grabbing, ghosting,
witches wearing weaves,
wistfully watching watchers
dust of night brings Halloween
Outstanding orange ovarian owls 
studiously studying steeples,
betting bulbous bats...

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