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Slicing Enticing Cake

...Have to write poems about food for a Food 
Poetry Recital in Shallotte, NC at Roark 
Library end of month of March. 


Slicing Enticing Cake

Had started out when we were slicing, 
An incredi...

Antics of a Buzzfeed Ding Housefly

...Antics Of A Buzzfeed Ding Housefly...

Non random, but (based on my very
     far out, flimsy laughably 
     amateurish thinking)
     faux feigned aye
firmly believe, that
     what appears ...

Saint James the Fisherman Day

...Saint James the Fisherman Day

Rohr family was nicest and kindest;
They had found it so hard to resist;
High point there,
They would share;
A new Episcopal Church does exist.

James Thomas Ho...

Utopia

...Our lives and our time
Fired useless
Into the air
Toy cap gun shots
Those winter palaces unstormed
No tax offices ransacked
Where is utopia I asked
And no-one knew
They looked at me with pity...

Where Art Sisyphus

...Tis quite a beast of burden to bear atlas (shrug off not allowed)
Atlas shrugged an impossibility
tantamount to skinny dipping in the lock nest lagoon

Tantamount to shrugging Atlas off mine bony...

Ao Be Unrealized

...To Be Unrealized
                  by Odin Roark

By whose standards
you might ask.

The standard for the conscious,
the persons who regardless of career aspiration,
relationship passion,
pa...

Airless Man Caves

...Airless Man Caves
                by Odin Roark

We love to beat ourselves up.

We venture out from our cavern of dread
to once again feel the frustration of looking
for that special dance par...

Strikingly Naked

...Strikingly Naked
                By Odin Roark

Voicing the reflection one sees insures
the facade really is,
was,
must have been.

Time passes…

How smoky the reflection,
this aging ident...

Maybe Tomorrow Night

...Maybe Tomorrow Night?
                        by Odin Roark

Early last night
thinking got heavy.

Uncomfortable feelings crept in.
The mix was,
I don't know…

Revealing, I guess.

How mu...

We Sometimes Weep

...We Sometimes Weep
by Odin Roark

Who wrote this poem,
This conjunction of thoughts
From memories,
Mine?

Experiences solely,
Mine?

Number, line and dot,
Understandings,
Mine?

Asking....

Noiseless Thunder

...Noiseless Thunder
                by Odin Roark

Hearing the footsteps of one’s genealogy,
the pounding of bare feet, sandal and boot,
the rise of malevolent dust and vacuous screams,
such is n...

Time Traveling

...Time Traveling
                      by Odin Roark

When time travels,
    Does the clock wonder
          As it watches us watch it moving?

Does it see us gaze at numbers
      Like forgott...

Walking Meditation

...Walking Meditation
                    by Odin Roark

“And I thought marriage was hard.”

Taking Meditation for a walk
nags me with why I’m such a failure at this.
It knows what I go through e...

Mirror,Mirror

...Mirror, Mirror…
by Odin Roark

Mirror, mirror off the wall,
who’ve you seen the most craven
of them all?

How portable your travels,
from storefront windows,
to dead-quiet water surfaces,
y...

Maybe Tomorrow Night

...Maybe Tomorrow Night?
                        by Odin Roark

Early last night
thinking got heavy.

Uncomfortable feelings crept in.
The mix was,
I don't know…

Revealing, I guess.

How mu...

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