THe old Matters
...Past the white horse
the high Road to take
Horse traders strapping
and preening for the day
A harem to conquer
ITs Babylon also bored
Cinderella for the day
shes a Queen in white lance
Impas...
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Categories:
impasses, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Arise In Obedience To This Clarion Call
...Arise o compatriot, Nigeria's call obey
To save her from going astray
Stand not aloof this is our Clarion call
Spread the news like you'll for a casting call
We're in for an urgent rescue missi...
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Categories:
impasses, political,
Form: Rhyme
Writing
...Some write for surface escape –
a pleasant rhyme, a gently traveling
breeze of uplifting, fragrant, whimsical thought...
while others write with deeper scent and penetration...
with gusty i...
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Categories:
impasses, inspirational, perspective, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 14
...Despite his impatience to show me his hell,
He waited for me in my rest,
Lying upon the ground, I awoke in prayer,
Thanking God above and asking Him for guidance
“My heart is Yours, always,
F...
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Categories:
impasses, adventure, anxiety, conflict, courage,
Form: Epic
The Love Crest Rises
...When your heart pours forth in vulnerable vacillation
When the feeling in your voice brings fervor to fluctuation…
I am all ears to every word, like a prisoner inspired before becoming a saint,
Li...
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Categories:
impasses, beauty, best friend, creation,
Form: Free verse
The Balm of Synchronization
...It is dangerous to walk into the conscientious realm of another,
To make love out of emotions long dreaded, long missed, and long lived
Each choice we make to discover in one another
Is sacred, mo...
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Categories:
impasses, change, destiny, devotion, growth,
Form: Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 7
...I…breathe again…
Meditating on flowers of my pasture, plucked with my eyes,
Resting…open, like buds blooming, and resting…
“Take me…” he said weakly, so softly in my ear…
I greeted the demon ...
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Categories:
impasses, abuse, adventure, allusion, anger,
Form: Free verse
Escaping Teh Clouds
...Escaping the Clouds
by Odin Roark
Entering one's Now…
How long the traverse.
Mountainous obstacles
Seem not of our creation,
Yet rock hard impasses appear
Where clear ...
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Categories:
impasses, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Meditations
...This funny thing we come to know as life,
Both a blessing & a curse in darkness & in light.
Old men sending youngins to fight.
How hard does the goathead bite?
Is it truly out of mind when do...
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Categories:
impasses, conflict, corruption, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Exiting the Clouds
...Exiting the Clouds
Entering one's Now
How long the traverse
Mountainous obstacles
Seem not of our creation
Yet rock hard impasses appear
Where clear path seemed obvious
Now impassible
The best ...
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Categories:
impasses, philosophy, weather,
Form: Free verse
Pride and Prejudice
...Roots of brothers’ enmity
Days of thunder rise
When skin and classes
Did society divide
Into angry masses.
Disabilitating pride
Of prejudice impasses
Bursting into fire
Erasing crevasse...
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Categories:
impasses, sad, social, warmetaphor, sea,
Form: Quatrain
One In My Lovely City
...My city has refused me for ever.
It has refused to love me,
to help and care about me.
I hurry from the plane - to the plane,
from station - to station,
to darkness from darkness.
I run, torme...
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Categories:
impasses, song-
Form: Lyric
As Lovely Mannequins
...Iconoclastic lots of marshiest beauty
Clenched sublime altruistic nature bore –
Morals indefatigably humbled, reasoning in bondage –
Bondage of the highest periphery
Blessings encountered in wa...
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Categories:
impasses, allegory,
Form: Classicism