Long Nescient Poems

Remember Me

Cold wet coastal today
I escaped
Sat myself behind a sanctuary
The rain beating rhythms
On window panes
Hot coffee and brandy
Warm inside The Athena Café

Radio spends its missed tuning
Hissing tinny tunes
Love songs
Of losing
Love songs of having
Love sings
Of wanting

Blank...

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Coup d'oeil, you tried to comport
For your sake, I obscure my discomfort
As a man of refinement, I dismiss bizarre incitements
Yet the verity of my deeds I shall say in perspectives most iridescent

Compulsive are your manners,...

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Don’t play like u wanna kiss me
If u miss me
Don’t hug me 
see what happens if you try and touch me
Untouchable

Stop.
That just makes me sound pathetic 
I don’t get it
Guess love is a confusing thing
Always...

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When we silence the noise, of our electric clock 
wake-up, turn on lights, and our coffee pot 
Should we feel shame, for what we have done 
or in blissful ignorance, greet the morning sun 

millions...

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When I hear the voices of little children
early at dusk just before twilight comes
with their faces cloaked by
the shawl of innocence
waving goodbye to the setting sun,
my heart leaps for joy;
as I watch agape as they...

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Can the textile, woven soft,
Wrapped round cushions, made for traded monies,
Hold through wear and treads of bones, spent by those to be beneath me?

What is made for you, me and we--
Rather than paper or liquidation--
Are...

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Every man’s heart is a terrific tree of desire
It sprout so fast as a mighty meaty briar
Born from the seed of error it grows
With wrath and pride as the trunks it shows.

With nescient roots it...

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As the holy season commemorates revelations of scriptures,
Sacred flame burning within, reinvigorates soul’s intellect,
Steering away from the fallible, toward realms of perfect,
Away from servitude of wealth, to caring for less-fortunate;

Empowering wisdom, vying sapience of enlightenment,
Inspiring...

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Shadow’s Passion
            by Odin Roark

A child’s imagination holds light’s oft guised presence in wonder,
As adult recklessly consume its flame of spirit and heart.
Left behind...

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This sudden warped concern for ampule, 

the cruel force of world dictators,

these psychological taunt of the media, 

Nescient chemists controlling our minds,  

tycoons uttering lies in egoistic motives,

these pretentious drama of publicized jabs,
 
enhancing...

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Lost between the passing of moments
Unscathed by times constancy
It is your spirit adrift upon the Ameles
Disregarding your earthbound verve 
Now a spent and forlorn wanderer…

Lapsed between the transitory minutes
Unabashed by any human wont
Your placid essence...

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alkali streets
bleed with the dreams of
humanity, angels in
bootlegged Blahniks

flutter wings of
dubious intention
a silent wisdom of the gods
spills empty pockets ...

gilded pillars of
Olympus, brought to
ruin by pushcart
pariahs -

the tattered pages
life scribbles on -
a cursive profanity to...

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Today ignorance uttered words in the court of kings,
as we waited too long for coruscation of brilliancy, 
serendipity smiled on nescient,
and crowned rebellion for one hour.

utterances from idle lips ,
foist on  passerby along nature’s...

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Hollo Pollo nescient today.
Their life in a suitcase
Crosses boarders from savage soil
Into habitats - Plight untold.

Fear and accomplishment juxtaposed.
Shame and relief, young and old.
Many a promises being sold
Cloudy moonlight - your story unfolds.

Back in time...

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