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Premium Member Shape Shifting Soul


When the music of life gets silenced 
in the broken violin of the extant in an instant,
submerged in the regression of solitude,  
morphed soul hears the murmur of the ancient stream. 

Released there from the clasp of karmic destiny,
I transcend the limits of time and space, 
where the pristine petals of awareness unfurl, 
bloom the divine flower of the cosmic essence.

In the devout sanctum of heavenly freedom
the soul attains the  timeless form of euphoria.
The beauty of ultimate oneness it beholds,
merging shapeless with the absolute supreme.

Detached from the transient life’s enmeshing web,
I lose mind-body identity in the sanctum of divinity,  
where time is lost in the eternal deep silence, 
the soul is configured into His omnipresent image.

For the maneuvered inducement of the being,
the transmuting tenet of the unique identity
changes in the self-devised palette of color mélange,
paints the shape shifting façade of the celestial entity.


Daylight Savings Time November 6th 2016

Hour hands clock back sixty minutes of Autumn
Round about this same of month every year, what a bum
er, and inconvenient truth diverged from this chum
purposelessly manipulating a hold over 
   sans yesteryear doth drum
a sensation of jet lag (with earth in the balance) 
   as if flying within time machine at warp speed from
this station, where bumpy ride invariably finds me 
   feeling a bit ticked off and glum
and in no mood to rhyme, nor be leer re: cull 
   juiced barely tantamount to gather scattered wits 
   sin tide, and express mood as hoe hum

fortunate, this chronological seismic shift nada wide, ah assume
nonetheless, mein kempf cerebral hemispheric plate tectonics 
   comb pluck hated off jangling black keys helplessly boom
fancifully drifting and booring into quick ribald sand trap doom
ming an inducement for emergency convoy, when pitched from
sea to figurative shining sea – gram ma mother earth glum
where live yikyak wired vanguard trulia tried optimism to hum
nonetheless, swallowed down behavioral sink went – me mum
bling bloviation, once worth matchless peerage, now pitched numb
lee into morass of temporary confusion, where plumb 
line delineating circadian rhythm offset, when athwart pilot rum
man strait ting and bickering with Lilliputians slum
bring within islets of langerhans defiantly thumb

ming nose, where body, mind & soul weeknd viz a bully did cower
hence mister clock, who got high-jacked 3600 seconds per hour
experienced head, thorax and abdomen diminishing in power
wrought indistinguishable Whitsuntide as sour
grapes imposing ill fitting sea legs, which folded like a faulty tower
crumbling skeletal carapace, resoundingly surrendered, 
   and back slid vis a vis space/time continuum did devour.

Black hole event horizon indeed kept lock step as das joint mill hoard
Sucker punched the band wagon of father time, whose riffs a silent chord
nsync with atomic fractional second bored
quirky shenanigans toying with chronometers 
   counter point of view shifted to oppose this minute accord.

Premium Member Donor Cozeners

Donor Cozeners
            by Odin Roark

Seduction eased into town long ago,
Thought to be natural.
It was
Praised as stability,
It was
Embraced as destiny,
It was…

Procreation ruled the nights,
Delivery rooms the days,
Time passed and like flies to a sugar fix,
Victory swarmed
Bank tellers on payday,
Local bars on Friday night,
Churches on Sunday.

Workweek habits continued,
Sexual harassment ‘round the water cooler,
Ass kissing ‘round the bosses,
Entitlement ‘round the calling-in-sick phone.

Then something happened.

Times got rough,
Unemployment rose,
Businesses shut down,
Preachers sought donations elsewhere,
Enticement stumbled out of town.

Darkness lured memories of enticements,
Cob webs hung furtively,
Tying unlit lamp post to shattered neon signs,
Side streets to alleyways,
Locked doors to broken windows.

Summer storms passed over,
Leaving muddy puddles,
Their rippled reflections
But gurgling echoes to the moon.
Goodbye waves of regret.

Today…

Not far down the road,
A new infestation of passionless hunters
Perfect their duplicitous smiles,
Awaiting yet another bounty of ignorance
For buying into the inducement
Of both flight
And fright,
Believing this,
Believing that,
Unaware that allurement
Is barbed with many disguises.

Hopefully…

Conscience will remain conscious
Never forgetting that on a clear night,
Or a dew covered sunrise,
Deception’s abalone color
Will flicker from the incandescence of
Beguilement’s lure,
Turning tomorrow’s entrapment of dreams,
Like the broken wings of flies,
Fractured rainbows are sucked
Into the black hole of deceit.
© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Paradigm Of Reality


For the inducement of the compulsive being 
the transmuting tenet of uniqueness,
the personified indebted identity
changes appearance in self-designed colour melange,
while the conjured chameleon furtively cocooned,
paints the shifting facade of deception,
as the languid life chases the transient mirage.

Out of the limelight, the clandestine colors 
on the visage of made-up memory fade away,
the pallid psyche morphs mystically into
the veracity mirror of fragile actuality,
reflecting the filtered rendering of primal hues' motif
of unaltered distinctive disposition it embodied once.

The lattice of contrived perception
designs the improvised fabric of truth.
The metamorphic mind creates the deluding elements,
resonating the echo of resounding insight,
filtered by its own transformed innate screen,
completes the paradigm shift of illusive reality.

Premium Member Fulcrum of a Rose

Line of inquiry: track where lies the fulcrum of the fragrance of a rose, then likewise find within, your soul —Unseeking Seeker Contest

Fulcrum of a Rose

pinwheel spinning
   reds, pinks, whites, butters
      I found the garden’s rest in
peace  s i g n
      a spray, spewed across this holder
         of breath
letting  g o
                  the mailbox painted army green
         underneath my nose
I know     no more     no less
     than lessons  l e a r n e d
with win some whiffs
                   does it pass the sniff test…
I’d like to find delightful the  p r i c k i n g
   of my nostrils, the inducement of petals
at first velvety soft
                              their perfumes
            make my heart bleed
my uncle’s in a green suit, laid out
   with just one truck punch, and it lingers
his scent, his lack of smile, the coldness of
                     the hand I touched -
he’s asleep…he didn’t move a finger
                  f r a g i l e
youth forever bathed in rose-scented water

a single red rose fought for his life in the snow

the scent lingers in
                                the leftover towers
                                                                I’m adept

in such ghostly afterglow
                                          my husband knows
     I prefer                T U L I P S


Premium Member Borrowed Words - The Question - Long Version

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering" (Nicole Krauss)...
and so went ventured forth to do so,  

stringing the answers together like a song, 
and all of them were right, but all of them were wrong:

a bell, a wind-chime in a soft-summer breeze
sparkling wine, a coquettish tease  
rainbow ends and butterfly wings
eternal blossoms and early Springs
a mirthful cornucopia of fruit
ribbons and bows, adorable, and cute
an inducement to bravely speak
a dance, grown closer, cheek to cheek
a siren song on a lonely sea disguised as a question, 
but really a keya challenge or a call to action
a promise of elusive satisfaction
an opportunity to grow,
the seeds of love at last to sow
a flash of lightning and a thunderbolt
followed by backflips and a somersaults
a two-way mirror of himself
a kaleidoscopic image of a misfit elf
an invitation to the blues
a year and a half in Tom Waits shoes
a sojourn of unending length
a demonstration of enduring strength 
inspired confidence that what is right
will part dark clouds when no hope's in sight
a reminder of an earlier day
a twinkling star, a moon's silver ray.
a lifelong quest, a sacred duty
a mysterious, arresting beauty.

In the end, he kissed her memory goodbye
as his immortal spirit floated in the sky.
He pondered, when he got to Heaven's door, 
a question he had no answer for.
Form: Rhyme

Let the Faith Stay Alive

E-veryday man is in peril, 
D-evil is like a roaring lion; 
G-od's servant must prepare, 
A-nd continue to move on.
R-unning out of time, 
D-evil deceives man at will; 
O-pen our hearts to God to have the Holy Spirit's seal.

N-ever blink in foe's front, 
E-nemy has various tricks; 
G-od's truth is our sword
A-s used by Jews and Greeks.
D-efy the opponent's lure, an inducement to pleasure; 
O-pen our minds to God, turning down the devil's pressure.

M-an is always at risk, 
E-verywhere and anytine; 
D-ay two October morn
E-arnestly leave dirt and grime.
N-ight and day the servant
I-s truly urged to survive; 
L-et the battle be won, 
L-et the faith stay
A-live.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Paradigm Of Shape Shift


For the maneuvered inducement 
of the compulsive being,
defined by the transmuting tenet of titular uniqueness,
configuring the personified convoluted identity,
changes in the self-devised palette of color mélange,
while the conjured chameleon furtively cocooned,
paints the shifting façade of disparaging deception.  

In the ostensible enactment 
of the prompted life’s incredible drama, 
performance perfected in illusory one-act play, 
and with the obsession of passion ostensible,
gilding the consequence crafted covertly
by metamorphic alchemic endeavor,
the surreptitious shift from one actor to another, 
is an axiomatic designed drive of ambiguity. 

Out of the limelight, the clandestine colors fade away  
on the visage of degenerating virtual makeup,
the pallid original face morphs mystically into 
the veracity mirror of fragile actuality, 
replicating the real rendering of the sublime shape, 
painted with the radiance of primal hue
of the unaltered distinctive disposition, 
it personified once in the reflected image.

The spasm of contrived perception splits the mirror, 
the shapeless shards of shattered reality
scatter as discarded debris blown away by wily air. 
Metamorphosis creates the deluding creature, 
an alien in its own transformed domain,
completes with the lattice of self-deceit 
the contrasting paradigm of illusive shape shift.

Premium Member Dare To Dream

Dare I think of you? 
Lead into temptation 
I dance in danger 
of falling - 

falling, 

into a turbulent inducement: 
a tantalizing, dangerous liaison, 
yet awaking dormant, 
quiescent fantasy. 

Still falling 

free fall, no control, 
no safety net, no way back. 
Be still my beating heart... 
still - 

still dreaming 

of a life less ordinary: 
Latent passion lascivious and 
lazily seductive. 
Delicious sensuality...... 

but still sensible 

I return to familiar stability. 
Awake now, not daring 
to dream. Quietude 
calming my reverie. 

Time passes 

Passions fade, 
normality returns. 
Mundane convention covers 
clandestine delusion. 

Still now, 

Still in the safety 
of proclivity, 
yet always remembering 
that once I dared to dream
Form: Lyric

One Hundred Colours of Gluck

Emerald envy nestled on velvet 
several thousand away from paid
Puce tulip promise inducement
secluded juice, palliation delayed 

Ivory aspire ripped wide envelope
plump with numbered requirement
Absinthe ardent delerium implode
paper stack compiling assignment

Cerulean satin adorns a champion
swanky speculators chase plethora
Fuchcia blooming futures chiming
swindle hopeful fast hoof investors

Magenta dash magic, risky fingers
probe probable, middle of pack peril
Bronze woebegone pilfers millions
prestigious month end ear emeralds




19th January 

Naples Yellow, Ginger, Gold 

Emerald Earrings
Form: Rhyme

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