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PLACED 9th : Premium Contest
Sponsor: Mark Toney : 2025
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A flaming circle alighted on
fertile soils near a fig tree and
harbour of hope to savour
struggles for freedom
Love here was arrowed
steadfast or ephemeral
I disembarked to open
cultures at deeper dimensions
Mastering spirals of colour
I soldiered well trod streets
where priests and imams laced
fingers blessing ardent marches
My soul tussled with unshackling truth
a flat mountain strewn with coral proteas
was my purple majesty to manifest
dreams from fearless courage
In this land of deserts and waves
Love opened hundreds of doors
to deliver itself in all its splendour
and all its pain as it ignited gain
My atoms weaved history and heritage
traversing an incredulous African reality
where life illuminated piquant fruits of
my own making to relish or relinquish
Embalmed by a Creator who guided
sure footsteps to an axis in a spinning
crystal at heart’s core where joyful tears
are a solace for my Southern Land
Mantis eyes magnetised her sister’s heart
felt its imprisoned glint of gold
willed it to enlarge into a
lotus leaf upon a sea
It floats on a lake of blood before
dawn turning hot burning blue
heat of her own blood
gold of her own heat
‘Let her not drown in
bloodied gold of red
running thick and deep’
So she murmured, so they did
To a shore of soft sand
Heart sailed escorted by
obsidian lidded dragons
gloomy gold unshackling
Guts, throat, tongue
puddle, pond, lake of
blood transmuted to turquoise
gold and blood morphing
Cupids created decoupage dishes
with bloodied dollars gold
called for another stint
to alchemise pentacles cold
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PUBLISHED: Edge of Humanity Magazine
September 26
Be mindful of heart contractions
Wary of ego’s distractions
Discard doubt and fear we stand strong
As life rolls on, let’s sing our song
There’s nothing out there, all’s within
Go in hermit, go in, go in
Within heart resounds, God’s bliss gong
As life rolls on, let’s sing our song
Stand firm and erect in life’s storm
We make our touch tender and warm
Leave none behind, take all along
As life rolls on, let’s sing our song
May head and heart act hand in glove
The litmus test is always love
Discern oh hermit, right from wrong
As life rolls on, let’s sing our song
Silence alone can set us free
Unshackling soul from our mind tree
Remove delusion with truth’s tong
As life rolls on, let’s sing our song
Cave of heart is where we belong
As life rolls on, let’s sing our song
So miserable in my wretchedness
I was reached out by God with His mercy
When He offered His precious love’s graciousness
Paid by His blood of divine clemency.
For me to possess life everlasting
Christ sacrificed Himself, tasting death’s gloom
He ransomed my soul; real freedom, granting
Against condemnation-pangs of hell’s doom.
The Lord sought me thru His forgiveness-might
Unshackling my heart from guilt-angst fetters
By His Word that prevails with His truth’s light
He secures my spirit midst sin-twisters.
Such is indeed beautiful mystery
Wrought by God for my faith-blessed victory!*
*1John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
August 18, 2018
5th place, "What Your Poem Needs Now, Is Love, Sweet Love" Poetry Contest Sponsored by Michelle Faulkner; judged on 10/9/2018.
Frayed Baggage
by Odin Roark
Dreamt fields
Where wall-less interiors boast stunning views
Personal vistas of imagination
Requiring only attachments be left behind
The resentful
The angry
The baggage labeled heavy
For just as everyone can’t be
Who or what they think they are
Revelation often becomes frayed baggage of the mind
Clutched with guilty claws
Self-loathing that refuses to heal
Narcissistic defenses
Deliver delusions of grandeur
Driving the moral compass further downward
Where an icy kingdom of vicarious reality
Becomes one’s personal abyss
Such is the plight of a luggage-laden life
One’s weighty attempt to always be part of something
Rejecting being one with the singular self as success
The fortunate abandon that which can’t be changed
Unshackling the drag-behind regrets and disappointments
And breathing in the oxygen of continuance
Discovering closure reveals the eternal opening
The paradoxical passage into meeting
One’s innate traveling companion of wager
The one who travels with toothbrush only
Sharing weightless wins in life
We know not of…
Yet
To the downtrodden, the marginalized, and worn,
Is this the fate that's yours to mourn?
The bourgeoisie, a cabal of power and might,
Gather to crush the poor, and snuff out their light.
The poor, in turn, unwittingly join the fray,
Oppressing themselves, in a vicious cycle of disarray.
Since time immemorial, I've witnessed this sad refrain,
Rarely seeing the rich and poor unite in love's sweet refrain.
For the wealthy fear that if the poor rise to power,
Their loyalty will wane, and their grip on them will cower.
So they indoctrinate, with subtle, deceitful guile,
Enslaving minds, and keeping the poor in servile trial.
By night, the rich and powerful conspire and plot,
While by day, they wear masks of deceit, and hearts that are not.
How many meetings do the poor convene to break their chains?
Will they forever remain silent, and endure the pains?
The upper class imposes taxes, a burden to bear,
While they themselves pay less, and live without a care.
But I ask you, dear oppressed, how long will you remain mute?
Will you not rise up, and demand your rights, and your freedom to compute?
No one is indispensable, your voice matters, don't you see?
Break free from the shackles of oppression, and be the change you seek to be.
Speak out, rise up, and shatter the chains that bind,
For your freedom, your future, and your dignity, are worth the fight to find.
Once I was condemned to die eternally
Found guilty without iota of a doubt
Showing human nature at its sinful best…
…yet, God made me free!*
The Saviour with His wondrous love and mercy
Offered to me His magnificent pardon
Which I received, trusting Him with my pure faith…
…setting my soul free!
Unshackling with mercy my transgression-chains
Christ paid fully my iniquities’ wages
Through His glorious sacrificial, cleansing blood…
…granting my freedom!
Rescued now from hell-fire’s everlasting death
I’m heaven-bound along God’s marvelous grace
Grateful to live for Him, my loving Master…
…serving Him freely!
*Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
May 17, 2019
Edited on Marcy 19, 2022
9th place, "Freedom" Poetry Writing Premier Contest
Sponsored by Robert James Liguori; judged on 3/21/2022.
whisper to me in dark places,
unshackling my mute form
revive the thousand voices,
I have sustained in a forever
unspoken and formless
so as to be forgotten,
it was in a night-scape,
the void of sound
negated speech
I break into flight,
with an oath choking
on my first cry
I drift on the hair of my nape,
as the weave of my cloth
spirals, for a moment
as gums bleed out
the rhythm in my shade, refrains
I ask of you,
caress me in a softness
of mourning,
whisper to me of dark places
for now,
I am a broken vow of silence
spoken in a thousand tongues
June 5 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 74-77
Key Verse – Psalm 74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY SAVIOUR KING
Lord God, You are my Saviour King…
upholding me by Your assured inheritance
Thank You for untying me from hell’s chain through Your love’s assistance
Upon Your salvation for my biblical faith’s stance
Unto Your truth, far from unbelief’s chaotic distance.
Lord God, You are my Saviour King…
uplifting me toward Your conversion-light
Thank You for unshackling me from worthlessness by Your deliverance-might
Upon Your precepts always teaching me to walk on paths that are right
Unto Your borders of standards set for spiritual height.
Lord God, You are my Saviour King…
upbringing me around Your blessed covenant
Thank You for unyoking me from troubles that make me wearily pant
Upon Your leadership as my wise Commandant
Unto Your commission I must obey with submission You require and want.
Lord God, You are my Saviour King…
updating me with Your miracles’ wondrousness
Thank You for unclasping me from destruction of selfishness and haughtiness
Upon Your pardon because of Your loving kindness
Unto Your pillars of graciousness I should testify along service-earnestness.
Lord God, You are my Saviour King…
upgrading me through Your granted contentment
Thank You for unbinding me from sin-infirmities by Your mercy’s settlement
Upon Your favour with Your promised fulfillment
Unto Your direction that propels my ministry-involvement.
Lord God, You are my Saviour King…
unfailing is Your goodness that leads me toward Your throne of supplication
Thank You for unburdening me along Your answers to my prayer and devotion
Upon Your altar where I seek You with commitment’s dedication
Unto Your fellowship so I can enjoy bliss of redemption.
Lord God, You are my Saviour King…
uniting me to Your church family
Thank You for unplugging me from worldliness by Your Word steadfastly
Upon Your power for stewardship faithfully
Unto Your glory I exalt honourably.
June 5, 2023
Auschwitz horrors replayed time and again
Nurtured by hatred of prejudiced minds
Toxic fumes fabric of our soul thus stains
Humanity enmeshed in devils bind
Let the last train to Auschwitz be release
Unshackling consciousness from delusion
Transmuting lower mind, to be at ease
Resonating with the love pulsation
Recognising oneness, embracing all
Offering rancour no anchor within
We be to become, a vibrant bliss squall
Dew drops of love, permeating our skin
Oh hermit! See how low we have fallen
Yet, by God we are never forsaken
11-April-2021
Last train to Auschwitz poetry contest
Sponsor: Kai Michael Neumann