Short Odysseys Poems

Oregon's Octobers offer odysseys 
of opulent orange orchards
opening on overjoyed oaks.

10/25/19

For 'Tautogram' contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper

1st Place...

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Succintly free
Filling us daily with hope
Rewiring our brains
Engulfing hearing,tasting and smelling 
Enriching the visual field
Driving  our thoughts
Overpowering life’s pores
Maneuvering odysseys...

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2001 space odysseys
50th anniversary...
an anormal film

no hollywood fights
love triangles or monsters...
no thing as absurd

possible fiction
a reversed reality...
was worth a tear 

all the worlds a stage
and we are but some actors...
reality silt...

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Oval lines of opaque light

Violet tracing the universe

     Eons crossing; curving height

Magnetic Venus flares; coerce

     Iridescent sisters of Mars

Aurora imbued divinity

     Odysseys of unnamed stars

Falling to the end of infinity.

7/5/19...

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dreary eyed, musky languor- tassels tight
a loose walk paraded by looser convictions
an acquaintance of that sad, lowly height
that alluded odysseys and several hymns

open window, surely dries out the stink
encroached in the room shadows and fleas
the zeitgeist of this area; to even think
flowers and dewdrops burly trees; to seize
the thought, it lingers, but only so little
too soon, to even land a misty eyed dream....

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We want to enrich
     its atmosphere by planting trees
and anything that has
    roots. We also want to pump
some of our oxygen into its
   thin sheet of air.

We want to bring zoos
   and cattle ranches on the red planet.

We want to build homes
    and real estates for rich folks
  who can afford space 
     odysseys.

We want another life
    on Mars, before we destroy
 our Earth with pollution
   and wars.......

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and our thoughts that were serious
turned life into acidity
but we're celebrating having survived
without tearing each other down too much
see, I allow myself to laugh at the televisions
as you solve cross puzzles
on this corner the milky way would be friendly
if we managed the odysseys correctly
maybe something dark is coming
mortal fleeing from the center of the universe
but we are ready the oracle said
because we have a surname hecatomb...

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