Chasing Moonbeams
...Recently, I was chasing moonbeams in a dream
It's just a typical, whimsical childhood scheme
but this time a veil was lifted from my eyes
and what I saw had me gasping with sighs.
I felt chille...
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Categories:
geodesic, beautiful, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
The Null Geodesic Existence Of Mine
...I have lived many deaths
Through a many existence
Many worlds
Many times
I keep coming back
I am light reflected upon time
I am the universe looking for purpose
I am God stranded in th...
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Categories:
geodesic, analogy, destiny, future, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Dream Delayed No Longer
...So,here I am kids in 2023 after having wasted
two decades of the only thing we can't get more of,time.I don't even want to talk about the wherefors and the what nots of the deal I got but suffice to...
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Categories:
geodesic, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
Survival
...Lisa and I finally tested covid-free! When we saw our results, we began an impromptu dance that felt like levitation.
Although my covid case seemed much milder, Lisa’s been nothing but supportive....
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Categories:
geodesic, celebration, emotions, freedom, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Nesting Life Cycle
...As I settled down, I sowed the seeds of love in my children.
My inner urge grew with them, separating our lids.
On passion, empathy, and respect, a delightful interlude
I appreciated ...
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Categories:
geodesic, appreciation, childhood, children, community,
Form: Free verse
Better Angles
...Sometimes obtuse
Mostly acute
Right on the money
Straight to the point—
You always appeal
To my better angles
1/6/2023
Geometric • Geodesic graphic im...
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Categories:
geodesic, feelings, fun, humor, relationship,
Form: Free verse
New Year's Eve 2022
...New Year's Eve 2022
Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022
sequestered (with the missus)
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding ...
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Categories:
geodesic, adventure, celebration, dance, december,
Form: Free verse
New Year's Eve 2021
...New Year's Eve 2021
December thirty first
two thousand twenty one countdown
will transparently and seamlessly stream into
simultaneously linkedin January first
two thousand and twenty two,
wh...
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Categories:
geodesic, adventure, culture, dance, humanity,
Form: Free verse
The Long Way Home
...It was late in the balmy springtime, and I was attending a lecture,
On a topic of great interest, which was the history of architecture.
As a great lover of beauty, I admired structural geometric...
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Categories:
geodesic, fantasy, home, magic, people,
Form: Couplet
The Mechanic Writes a Love Poem
...You got my heart beating at scouring velocity I bet
The colors of your paint job would be Flambeau and desert sunset
You got more juice than a Holley 650 double pump carburetor
As kind and coo...
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Categories:
geodesic, analogy, love, silly,
Form: Rhyme
End of Time
...I
see a
place with
starless skies.
I
see a
dark smooth
world
endlessly afloat
in the black,
its star
long since
blinked
out.
Covered
with small
closely spaced
geodesic domes.
Geod...
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Categories:
geodesic, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
In Praise of Termites
...The termite culture's rich and vast,
more so, sometimes, than humankind,
with martyrs and mujahideen,
and projects ponderous yet precise,
and back-up plans, a hundredfold.
How do they do it...
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Categories:
geodesic, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Yet We Endure, We Lost Devils of Mankind
...Yet We Endure, We Lost Devils Of Mankind
O' what boldness the soft-shoe'd thief had
when rustling through my heart's home.
Invisible- never seen, but wickedly bad
and just as complicated as...
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Categories:
geodesic, appreciation, creation, irony, journey,
Form: Sonnet
Reliving Upside Down
...Reliving Upside Down
by Odin Roark
The Jungle Gym geodesic glistened,
Afternoon showers dripped,
Languorous droplets fell,
Saturating sand below,
Just like then.
Benc...
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Categories:
geodesic, absence, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
World of Haiku
...SPIDER
Eight furry legs
Approaching black blob
Screeeeeeeeeeeeeech
COCKROACH
Periplaneta americana
Out of planet, preys on women's tuxedo
Blob of fat, smell, monster
JULIA'S HAIR...
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Categories:
geodesic, poems,
Form: Haiku
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