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Premium Member Climber

Climber
         by Odin Roark

Reality readied its chance
 
Ascent of an alpine face
Traversing ice and cold
Challenging steel axe and rope 
Such was the pulsating vibration 
Facing another dawn

That day
Blade and ice danced slow motion
Penetrating deep into resistance
Echoing through layered centuries
Awakening nature to its presence

Breath became reserved
High altitude remained merciless
Snow-blind eyes squinted thankfully 
As yards became feet
Became inches
Became respect for the unknown

Frozen feet
Cinched tight inside
Defiant crampons
Numbly impelled their serrated spikes

The blue iced chorus groaned displeasure 
Reminding auger-encroachment
Frozen time was forever resilient

Destiny prevailed

Mortality hung suspended
As will over apathy
Courage over defeat
Found fear had been conquered

Life’s architecture
Like da Vinci ’s Vitruvian Man
Became a frozen tapestry
Life’s proportions 
Past
Future
Present
Coalesced 
Transformed
Became…

Some might say such a tale
Mere envisages
Penned into a journal
To bide some time

This night however…

The mountain-wall’s next attempt
Huddled in a tent weathering sub-zero temperatures
Sipped tea from his father’s battered cup
A legacy found long ago
Floating atop glacial runoff

Through the night
Ink continued flowing 
Tin cup foreshadowing remained warm
First light neared
© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.


Welcome To Our Garden

Orange cosmos flowers inside a circle
along with the canna indica flowers;
A big smile of welcome at the front entrance.                                                                                                                                             Followed by Pink, red and yellow ixoras,
the fully bloomed harlequin wonders;
Enthrall  butterflies and sun birds
 
Violet, Red and new comer pink Balsums
are the evergreen shrub
 The nonpareil Marvels
 
  Night blooming jasmine flowers
adorn the sideways of the garden;
Meant to engross the moths
 
The bright yellow alamanda,
the heroine of our garden.
Made us fall in love with yellow
 
Glittering stars in the morning,
blaze like the diamonds in red and yellow;
The spectacular magic of sun plants
 
The black night shade plants
bear the inky purple sun berries;
Food for the red vented bulbuls

The Red hibiscus at the corner
attracts everyone's sights
by its innocent grin

The 4'o clock mandharai flowers
unfurl attractive perfumes
and embellish our garden in the evening

Grass green climber braces,
trumpet shaped madevillas,
The small stabs on flowers,
connote attendances of  sun birds
 
  Cutest creepers I've ever seen,
 amidst the tall green grass;
 The metallic blue Verbena
 
Sometimes our old friends Asian Koels
and our migrating friends Brahminy starlings
visit for their breakfast.
 
Mynas sing like parrots
and sometimes imitate Koels;
Mimicry Experts they're
 
Some plants are hostplants
of  the common mormons,  jezebels,
praying mantis and the signature spiders
 
Yellow billed blabbers,
 the king of our garden;
The faithful defender of our home,
none can step in without their consent.
 
Squirrels scamper here and there,
and elegant butterflies in the air
proliferate happiness everywhere

Have you ever seen a place like this anywhere?
To embrace glee, you no need to be a Billionare.
Just Visit our garden, you will feel the real bliss, I swear!

Premium Member My Gnomes

I enjoy my gnomes
They live in my garden
Every day I look out
Keeping watch on them
To make sure they're safe
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Each one has a name
Jack the mountain climber
He scales the alps at a slow pace
Never reaches the top
Yet he never gives up

Tom is happy to play soccer
He plays every day
Rain or shine he goes
To join his team mates
On the soccer field

Fred is a magician
He practices all the time
For a show twice a week
It's for the sick children
They enjoy his many talents

These are my gnomes
Each one is special
Doing their own thing
Each enjoy a different role
passing time in my garden
Form: Sonnet

Wisp of Rags to Riches




                       Wispy, you stop it, stop being so cute, 
       adopter-of-warrior-orphanry spokesKitty.
     Little miss adapter to Life on the road 
   with your beautiful hearted companion, 
     honorary majestic in your captivity, 
  of "girls night out, charming the City" and the Firemen.

O "GravyMuppet" kiss of dirty bird, gravy dog tenaciousness, climber of couches, 
imp empressor of your mistress. 
Artist, drawing of bath water after your drawing 
with the feclined matters of scourging, 
you laugh in the face of stubborn intestinal closings, 
but no blockage in creativity, inn keeping 
her on her toes, 
or a little piece of you in her hair. 
No lack of caring by your mistress through and through, Love persevering, always there for you.

O Cuteness Czar- ina , "oh yes you are", 
in the Media Arena, doing your part, 
in the filming of Love's Arts, sponsoring hearts. 
Captivating, your part~Ropurr".

"Salivating, licking our lips for second meal~Purrina."


P.S.:
With crispy whispy whiskers aligned 
with camera light reflection dot pixels- 
mirrored in eyes co-signs
co-producer, "GravyMuppet Productions" equals the twinkling star, wink of the Divine, Siriusly an assign, 
to those with the heart and shave of a Lion. 

Dirty face and pup cupped mop tuft girls, give us more
glossys and blow ups of  
tigers chasing courageivity. 
Friend images, 
may they be destined to join the "gravy-"dog-star" accompanying Orion (the warrior humans who never compromise their heart's integrity, at action time)
, with pink strawberry beret and soul sister-companion, guardian, forever aligned.
Form: Ode

I'D Love To Be.....But!

I’d love to be a model
Tall and thin like Jerry Hall
But I like fish and chips too much
And I’m only five feet tall

I’d love to be a dancer
With poise, and style, and grace
But I was born with two left feet
And would end up flat on my face

I’d love to be a climber
Scaling mountains in one single bound
But I get dizzy in high heels
So I’d best keep my feet on the ground

I’d love to be an athlete
With medals of gold on my chest
But it takes all my breath, to run a bath
So relaxing at home is best

I’d love to be a painter
And have works of art hanged in great halls,
But the only paint that I can use
Is emulsion you slop onto walls

I’d love to be an actress
Starring on the silver screen
But with my memory, I’d forget the script
“What was I saying?” – see what I mean

I’d love to be an explorer
Through untamed jungles I’d caper
But I love the luxuries of life
Like hot baths, and toilet paper!

I’d love to be a poet
And write my own anthology
But that’s just another pipe dream
So I’ll have to be, just me.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member To Be a Part of Landscape

 You can travel the four thousand miles of the Nile
to its source and never find it.
You can climb the five highest peaks of the Himalayas
and never recognize it.
You can gaze through the largest telescope
and never see it.
Arthur Sze

 To be a part of landscape

From a distance landscape has a
recognizable outline. 
A skin mite, grazing fleshy meadows 
grotesque microscopic cow,
has no concept of the human form it feeds from.

Just as a mountain in close proximity
is no longer symbolic of its form,
romance and the imagination of it
is reduced to a frozen, physical obstruction
that is a challenge to survival.

The skin mite tumbles, a huge force
has torn it's clawlike hooves from
living apertures, it falls
with flakes of dead turf into a 
depthless void, unoticed 
by the scratcher,

and the mountain climber sees the
blinding wall of snow that
flashes by him as he falls,

unoticed by the mountain.

Premium Member I'm The Giant Panda

Do not mistake me for a Bear.
       True, I look like one, but my features 
             Resemble those of a raccoon.
             Unlike the hulking Grizzly Bear,
          I'm not an aggressive meat lover.

               I couldn't be more peaceful! 
                 I enjoy a plant-based diet.
               Give me a bamboo any day! 
       No, I don't mind berries, fruit, flowers,
           Grasses, bark, and small animals. 

       Never think "Bear" when you see me! 
                      I do not hibernate; 
     I simply relax and sleep out in the open.
          We couldn't look more different!
               Bears wear uniform colors: 

                  Brown, black, or white.
                    I, on the other hand, 
              Don a black and white coat 
      With a prominent black eye markings. 
           I'm one of the rarest and shyest... 

Of wild animals; a solitary beast from China.  
        I live in cold and damp conditions, 
          But my dense, waterproof coat 
           Gives me absolute protection.
      An extremely agile climber, I escape...

              Larger predators with ease.
                I'm a glutton that spends 
    Two-thirds of my waking hours eating.
              Here's a bit more about me... 
                      I stand 5' ft erect. 

         As a female, I'm shorter in stature. 
                    I weigh up to 265 lbs. 
                 As a female, I weigh less.
             I give birth to usually one cup.
              Did I mention I'm not a Bear?


Date written: 06/12/2023

Premium Member Three Firemen

It is late at night- we three sit alone-
That is my two brothers and me.
We hear sirens- and automatically think-
 Let’s play firemen.
We put on our gear and head towards the fire-
It’s cold and windy- the fire is ablaze- 
We hear cries mingled with the roar of the wind.
The building is tall- the windows are barred- 
The cries touch our hearts-
The ladder climber reaches the very top
 The heat is unbearable- but we cannot stop.
The bars plunk down- clattering loudly to the street-
The people saved stand together in a huddle, hugging one another-
A siren shatters the night- but- it will not be needed-
Because, three firemen, have come to the rescue-
Together they make a fine team- today they stand hand-in-hand
Forever the three firemen-
When the parents came home, they carried three sleeping children to bed
Saving lives- always tires them out.

Goodbye Europa

Goodbye Europe 

Driving along I saw at a distance what looked
like two dark shadows holding up a smaller wizen shadow,
and I thought without Africa, Europe would have been a more miserable place. 
We stole their people from working in fields and factories
we took their minerals and gold and left them destitute.
Now they are coming here, and we offer them a tent,
If you are not a wall climber, a fast track runner or football
hero, we don`t want to know.
I the meantime, the population – white tribe- am dying out
We have reached the pinnacle of our evolution, the glass siling  
has broken women prefer driving Mercedes cars and
men turn to each other for succour to be gay is the new normal.
We older and another race must take over our delimitations we are
dying out, we are a curious vanishing race in a sea of colour and strange manners. Unless Europe wakes up and produces own children
 we need immigrants on a massive
scale, if not we become a historical footnote.
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Heaven Or Hell

Made my choice
I always wear 
the blessed Bennedict cross
scared of the Devil himself
for my soul protection

I saw the faces twisted in agony 
mouths open screaming arms out
pleading with love to be saved
inside a moving mass of pain in Hell

I walked in the burning darkness 
suffering pains a zombie for my sins 
a blind existence inside one shell
I had no one other than family 
to call upon as friends
 
Seeing suffering tortured souls 
what they done to me 
Trusted to easily 
used and stole from in my charity 

Born under the wolf moon 
always watching in the shadows
a mountain climber by birthright 
Howling into a cold loneliness one fight
with the heavens inside at war 

Brought to my knees in the all forgiving face 
of God cured of cancer one miracle 
I know destiny again 
coming out from arising sun
I bow humble and meek
I will be stronger for living 
knowing where to place my trust

Smiling always with friends
because I see now love
It is you who makes 
each and every single world go around

I walk now towards your light
forgiving my past
Ready to face this big bad world again
only now I am stronger seeing hope
always praying for you love
No redemption in Hell
it just keeps getting worse

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