Embrace your inner hatred and release
Love; fullness forever, to realize.
Embrace your unhappiness and release
Joy; fullness forever, to realize.
Embrace your hostility and release
Peace; fullness forever, to realize.
Embrace your impertinence and release
Patience; fullness in life, to realize.
Embrace your mercilessness and release
Mercy; fullness in life, to realize.
Embrace your debauchery and release
Goodness; fullness in life, to realize.
Embrace your unkindness, ever release
Kindness; fullness in life, to realize.
Embrace your agnosticism and release
Faith; fullness forever, to realize.
Embrace your intemperance and release
Calmness; fullness in life, to realize.
5th May 2021
Categories:
intemperance, faith, joy, life, love,
Form: Couplet
Confetti dreams floating away
An innocence again is crushed
Under the weight of the fall
Countdowns to unconsciousness
Filled in flutes of sorrow
As the masses mimic cheer
Confessions secretly stored
Under wraps of indesgression
Carried out the door
Self inflicted suffrage
Abandons another war
Anxious the path's unearthed
Repentant intemperance subverts
Categories:
intemperance, birth, celebration, death,
Form: Free verse
From the anise do I awaken.
Molten sugar dribbles into my veins;
O languor! My mind’s overtaken—.
The green fairy has me forsaken in pain;
a siren, she beckons me to her shore:
her green eyes incense my intemperance!
Saffron locks graze my skin in our rapport,
rendering a crucible of irreverence!!
But your absinthial hold on me dies,
as I now see and know your gross illusion
of pure heart and at last do recognize
that ample breasts, blonde locks spell ruination!
Wherefore have I loved you? ‘Twas all my shame
as I drowned in your absinthian game!
Categories:
intemperance, corruption, lust, metaphor, woman,
Form: Sonnet
Scar-like Healings
by Odin Roark
Scar laden perfections
Where life's training wheels balance
One's child-like trust
Adolescent-like daring
Adult-like intemperance
Scratches
Bruises
Broken bones
History's incidentals heal easily
While
Challenges of the heart
Stalemates of the mind
Failure of one's dreams
Make endurance the battle cry
Invisible damages the struggle
Protection of identity
One's survival instinct
The personified continuance
At all costs
How weary our consciousness becomes
For
Around the corner
Lurks the underworld of lesions
Trusting not the scars
For finite as healing might seem
There remains the lesson to be learned
Time-released torment to be resolved
One's fatal wounds burrow deep
Ignoring the façade of mending
Knowing all too well
What remains buried
Are teachings
Damage never dies
Anguish never vanishes
The chameleon of pain
Nullifies one's senses temporarily
Rendering transient peace
While fate prepares
Tomorrow's pin prick
Wishing one to live
Not languish believing
Scar-like healings
Are real
Categories:
intemperance, pain, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Dark shadows stalk the imaginary paths of my brain
Mirroring conscience reflects the torpor of my anguished soul
Black clouds hover in every dark corner of my jaded psche
Raining doubt and fear on the canvas of my jaundiced mind
Brackish tears of penance but soil the pores of my fever-soaked face
Flowing into a convoluted whirlpool of shame that constantly recycles my depraved actions
Emptying into the recesses of my vacuous inner being
Stagnating pools of opprobrium surround my bleached heart
Nauseous fumes of pride from my murky depths smother all good intentions
Stranding my drowning soul in the quicksand of intemperance and overindulgence
Categories:
intemperance, depression, introspection
Form: Free verse
There are no gentle movements
into a calm goodnight
there is a rage
of intemperance
in the stupidity
of attempting to mark,
as to be in memory
there is no remembrance
as one I arrived bare
maggots my butlers,
devouring each and every
shedding,
eventually
being their main
course
and a life in circles moves
a thousand years
shall pass in the spinifex,
the dust shall blow
across the page
of my existence
scratching out all
I ever was
generations vortex from the future,
and stretch through to brush my mind
A memory before their time
Categories:
intemperance, introspection, life
Form: Blank verse
He sinks further into bitterness
with each sip of oblivion.......
slurping....gulping grudges and blame
with every malicious mouthful.
He remains suspended in cynicism;
hurtling missiles of misery mixed
with murky twisted memories in an
attempt to justify his tangled truth.
Untruths in reality, but his realism
is unreal.....swishing, diluted by
the destruction of hate; imbibed with
one more beer or glass of Merlot.
How sad this man frozen in animosity.
What a waste of precious time.
Life languishing in antipathy.
Pathetic intemperance.......
Put that bottle down sir -
drink this instead, savour it,
smell the bouquet, Beaujolais...
swallow the future, and spit out the past.
Categories:
intemperance, depression, loss,
Form: Free verse
The tiger, majestic and proud
Fearless, strong and solitary
A predator by nature
Domineering yet wary
The dove, gentle and harmonious
Passive and apprehensive
A free spirit by nature
But always on the defensive
The jungles most perilous feline
Encounters the fragile dove
A most unlikely pair
Yet they have found love
Their journey will be a challenge
Obstacles in every direction
A never ending conflict
Between rage and affection
Each possesses, what the other lacks
Complimenting and yet taunting
A compromise of character
Is what they are wanting
She wants his intemperance
He wants her domestication
Together seeking a compromise
In search of salvation
The dove cannot tame him
Or dismiss his need for the hunt
She must accept who he is
Placing him at the forefront
The tiger cannot disengage her
Or deride her passion to nest
He must accept who she is
Keeping her abreast
The future lies uncertain
For the tiger and the dove
But they can conquer anything
If they just remember to love
Categories:
intemperance, devotion, friendship, love, tiger,
Form: Rhyme
She waits within abiding stealth
Fashioning control over herself
But she is so acute to cryptic failings
Flinging against my invisible railings
Not to be subdued or silenced still
She rages with uncompromising will
Confined by these weak temporal walls
Undone she seeks the lower calls
Those of apathy, intemperance, and pride
Desperate ambition to fling open wide
Floodgates swell and emotional storms rise
It is her time, no more compromise
She is the Other, and I relinquish to her strength
There is nothing left of me.
Categories:
intemperance, introspection, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
With a simultaneous gasp for air,
a trembling hand lifts the bottle.
Throat-burning venom snakes
its way across the tongue as
hot liquid arrows slither
toward their target;
a petrified pit waiting
to receive the coveted sting.
White-fanged memories
lie coiled, and ready to strike
until doused repeatedly
with liberal doses
of fiery forgetfulness.
You rattle around
in my consciousness.
Whiskey takes you
out of my mind.
Categories:
intemperance, angst, lost love, social,
Form: Free verse