Long Unharnessed Poems

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How simple are the circles in which life turns
How strange are its tangled fingers
Through intricate woven tapestry burns
The wonder that yet lingers

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They made their way to the mercantile using the paths less traveled, Lumi hiding...

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The mirtangist may never willingly hear
may not want to hear
the multaiyam announcing his cue
nor the melodist aware of the flautist's right
to the change in the raga
the plucking of the yal strings
to the goatskin drummed bleats
and...

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Wonder’s Darkness
             by Odin Roark

He knew wonder well
It could cancel fear
And bestow courage
A nexus for survival

A predawn beginning
His solo-climb of the face
Thought crazy...

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Soaring like a bald eagle.                              ...

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TOMORROW BELONGS TO ME

Tomorrow I shall have children
Who shall be answerable to me,
They shall cover my grave when
Am gone to meet my ancestors.
That is the dream of marriage life.

Tomorrow I shall sit with the elders
At...

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A moment long ago

The farmer said he needed sand for the fenced-in chicken run
Off we went, hooking the cart to our tiny female horse that had
been so sweet a foal, she was named Dokka (doll)
The...

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You can hear the whispers of your soul as you
stand quietly in tune with a vast universe. As you
let the wind be your eyes, the birds your voice, as you
listen with your heart as you...

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I miss the barn, the hay loft,
a place to listen to the midday sun
creaking through old wood.,
the small clouds of horse flies
moving as one in their jet-pack bodies,
that rose and fell
  their small engines...

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Love maker,
Body taker Love shaker,
Hot whisper,
Peppermint & jasmine in air
Tickling every body hair,
Reverberating into the Queen's chamber,
A tiger's den teething to be,
Safety in no layer, romance the pillar of this prayer,
Our auras igniting flower vases...

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October gallops in as stolid as a gray mare,
a blunt wind snorts furiously through autumnal trees.
Foliage rattles, but does not fall, it clings still
to green stems.

Appalachian backwoods have tough roots,
shod as they are into an...

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(Poetry) let it thicken as it stands.

Let it be beautiful, unharnessed verbal rage or 
song or deed, or graven image set in stone, where 
walls fell around some demagouge in 
some ill-remembered time. 

$IN

In our...

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Cattle trucks drive highways now
where drovers once held sway
Heavy rigs of chrome and steel
replaced the horse and dray

Gravel tracks of rich red earth
that rambled near and far
Have disappeared forever
‘neath miles of hot black tar

The billabong...

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Betwixt the lines
Run the mines
of unharnessed love

Like an arrow through the heart
where does it stop, where does it start

How do you know what each day will hold
This day this year, please stop the cold

Through this...

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"The wind is the pounding of my heart."

O heart just blow! Do not pound like a hungry hound!
Be breeze! Do not turn into wind and roughly bound!
When you're gentle, you're soothing and caressing bride,
Beauty-concentrated; blemish...

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The restless breeze moves 
rapidly through the grasslands, 
like a rippling sea of waves.

Flocks of birds draft one 
another as they cascade 
through windswept, cloudy skies.

Whipping winds move hastily
across the ocean waters, 
as sailors fill...

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When fire raged and burned it's roof, sun rays fell to forest floor,
And lit upon scraggly flowers once doomed to bloom no more.
Then unharnessed, like wild horses, the shrubs began to fight.
Each year they grew...

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My cavern bursts with bittersweet aura
— like globose berries, a cluster of tints.
The secret place — its musk, amidst the flora,
a limited conquest of feet — their prints.

Excitement rocks — I wade in hidden space.
My...

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Mist shrouded lilies in the darkness
Glistening off the new fallen snow.

Torrents of emotions unharnessed
Beneath the mother moons glow.

Lids of diamonds blink lazily
Carrying lashes of golden water.

Over sapphire skies of Hazel
A velvet cheeked lily martyr.

Offering the...

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He buried his face in her. At first gently. Naked his muscles rippled in the morning light. He was beautiful. She was beautiful and he held her as if she were the last raindrop that...

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Neon beams of spectrum light inscribed upon the cloud
As artists pastel palette paints and graciously endows
God’s colour chart in majesty on heavens canvas scrolls
In misty watered pastel hues the Promise arc unrolls

Across the hills and...

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Whats good my fellow inflamed pen and pad artists
I've unlocked many chains and now Im unharnessed
I've gone through the darkness and still Im untarnished
Watched souls of the heartless acid rain on and varnish

Picture missing baskets...

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Our Story

Wonder if in that star gaze
You came across a page
Where love transcended planes
To a place where we were love royally
Where I was your Queen
And you my King naturally
Somewhere in the in-betweens
We lost sight 
Of...

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My garden brings the fairies,
you will never know the hour.
The sun may just be peeping
past the apple tree in flower.
See them? No! But I discern
pixie clues they leave behind:
the fragrant thyme they danced upon ....

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Of the dark, offered in the morning cup,
and the chill of salted caramel cream,
spooning after an impervious dream
and clink-clink spell of alarum abrupt,
comes the ceramic to sip, birdsong up.
Fruity-caffeine drips into the bloodstream.
Imagery from a...

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Unharnessed footfalls meld with bike ricksaws
as antiquated oil belching buses roar.
Limo drivers bull their way door to door 
to the sound of dangling baskets of macaws. 
Hawkers shriek their wares without pause, 
such is the...

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