Long Cheekbone Poems

Walking slowly up to the water,
 Waves consume her feet, 
The cold ocean takes away the breath from her lungs, 
Thoughts of life without him, 
Haunts her daydreams, 
Moving slowly in to the ocean,
 Holding...

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HARRY THE BREAKER
Harry galloped through the Mulga           (13% protien animal tucker)
On a game horse Bunga Din
The Brumbies galloping on Tolga
Were yarded with a grin
Every station...

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Noah will go First, soaring out of the Desert,Up and throughThe Surrounded  Horizon ----of curt 
Offstage Smiles, Indigo children who are Rain from the Sun.Wings of Alabaster Sin. {Death, in 
your Arms}The affect is most...

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Dream

My mirrored reflection silently speaks

You honor me with your vulnerability
Your scars of life
Your unhealed wounds of betrayal

Dream journals tattoo your body
Your open arms of desire call to me

With eyes closed I sense
Whispers of your silky...

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Delilah is a temptress with the magic of allure,
but special potions or devices aren’t required by her.

Women notice (enviously) her flawless skin so fair
and the unusual style of her lustrous long sleek hair.

She walks into...

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Piercing my heart:

Her nose-pin twinkles at me,
Her lip-ring smiles at me,
Her dark eyes make me lust,
Leaving everything like rust.
Her cheek-piercings make fake dimples,
Fake eyelashes arise ripples,
Inside my heart.
She is a prostitute from Havana,
I first met...

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Particularly pronounce abscess,
when rites of spring accursedness
prevails, asper testament, sans swell
scored psychological achiness
recording minecrafted history, 

viz secreting acridness
permeates profusely predicated puberty,
akin to ambling au naturale adulteress
plethora plush plumage plus perfume
presage prickly profuse inauspicious pre/

post pubescent...

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I like to pretend this is just another hand-me-down story by my grandmother,
another black and white 1950’s photograph tucked away in a shoebox,
that the first time 
a glass of whiskey scorched through the cataract of...

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Prithee how could i describe thee
You are the morning glory, beauty and virtue,
Mind and soul symbolically personify
Your image send relief to ease my longing soul,
I can hear your silence subdue lonely voice
Whispering, calling me to...

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I was beaten into silence as a young
child from my father's brutalizing rage
and psychological torture.

When I was 5, a man exposed himself, to me
I ran fast terrified, no words spoken.

When I was 21 my boyfriend...

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Frosty's squeeze was Freckles Snow
and frosty saw her well.
Her button eyes would warm his heart
and leave him weak to tell.

Her smile was like a clever seal
with lips in brilliant red.
The two of them red pepper...

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Under the oak tree, next to the river,
With NONHLANHLA my sweet rose.
I look at her lips and the big blue eyes.
I take her hand gently and bring it close to my lips 
I place my...

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She woke up to the song of the rising sun
Dealt with the domestic chores in one quick run
When it's time to set to the duty outdoors,
she locked those grotty wooden doors.

She joined her friends at...

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YESTERDAY
Tears dripping down as I watch my baby suffer in silence,
for this afflicted disease has no understood known cure-
I can handle family disputes, madness and worldly violence,
but losing my precious baby girl I just cannot...

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I stand here in front of a fractured mirror
Tracing veined lines and blemished pores,
That in my  waif-like outline  I dream
About spring’s young complexion…ripe   virginal 
The glint of nubile aura humbling dawn's...

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Silence swarming with noise
Sounds blasting, like a war
Penetrating proof of the clamorous
Blare, blaze, flaming craze
Hues of doubt pouring out on the calm
Darkness sinking into the heart
Hushing the sigh, the breath, rhythmic
Beating of a song, like...

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Virtual Fantasy
              by Odin Roark

So innocent they
But three years old
Wanting parent look
Upon their face

First on paper
Crayon scribbles
Then long waits
Yearly Halloween
And make-believe 

Come...

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I LOST

When my dad called me ugly, 
stupid and worthless, as that
little girl, I lost!

When my mother didn't protect
me from the cruelty and abuse
at home, I lost!

When a bad man came into my
room exposing himself,...

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Unassuming spider makes his web on a tree
It is small but to me
It is a special key
For it reflects web of life therefore destiny

With spider web basking in star light
Or in the morning as above...

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When Dad called me ugly, stupid
and worthless, as that little girl, I lost!

When my mother couldn’t protect
me from the cruelty and abuse
at home, I lost!

When a bad man came into
my room and frightened me
me as...

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I am saddened by the world today.
Hypocrisy stands in the way.

No wonder Jesus said to leave.
Tossing tables he did grieve.

This is a place where we should pray.
Not show off our ride in the driveway.

What is...

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Now ... tell me the truth at 80 spaces .
Oh yes monthly at no extracted cost ,
trumpet swans announcing "All-New" "Chases"
... Gameshow w-/ only purpose " Just stay lost".
scratch that ... start at the count...

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I have not known 
my city as my city when 
the city snows.  
There is no snow here.
It never snows in Houston.
I have seen my city
with her cheekbone bruised
and with a busted nose
and with...

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to waste it on anyone else
all the reflections
are just accidents
dust on mirrors
a finger swipe away
watching the numb eat its way through the pain
one jagged mouthful at a time
rowed rows of sorrowful sorrows
watch hope hop away
with...

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My heart's chart is a one line
the machine screams and bleeps
A part of mine has gone
Apart it has torn even the spine
couldn't stand alone ,your breath is what keeps
my lungs inhale and even my cheekbone
is...

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