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i only do free verse

...i only do free verse

     i rarely make exceptions

   ever since i learned about it in 5th grade

        i made a silent vow to myself 
     that i would utilize this new expression 
     ...

Categories: uncatchable, freedom,
Form: Free verse

The M - A - R - K

...F
E
A
R
...  has a phantom voice
clinging flesh tethered bones
fumbling
 - yardage
uncatchable
losing ground
ephemeral scope
a leathered novelty
of jumbling alphabets
despairing formatio...

Categories: uncatchable, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Shape

Burned Trees

...Thoughts were coming
like flashes on a
stormy, summer night.

Sudden, intense, enlightening.

Uncatchable.
Gone with the wind.

Our dark hearts yearn for
the light to pump....

Categories: uncatchable, dark, inspiration, light,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Flipped Hourglass

...Flipped Hourglass

Bits of unwrinkled sand, harried ageless seconds,
Rush through a narrow neck
Pushing to birth
Moments of elegance or horror
Shoving aside other grains
Like words of regret f...

Categories: uncatchable, dance, life, time,
Form: Free verse

Flipped Hourglass

...Flipped Hourglass

Bits of unwrinkled sand, harried ageless seconds,
Rush through a narrow neck
Pushing to birth
Moments of elegance or horror
Shoving aside other grains
Like words of regret f...

Categories: uncatchable, dance, life, time,
Form: Free verse

Vagabond Reveries

...Vagabond Reveries

I awoke one apple-ripe autumn afternoon, 
While shifting my necessity to care, dreaming,
To gaze upon the twisting trail in reveries of untethered reality 
A quest for halcyon...

Categories: uncatchable, dream, forgiveness, life,
Form: Free verse

Gypsy Kaleidoscope

...Gypsy Kaleidoscope

Mystic, mystical, magic gypsy
Spins a halcyon kaleidoscope on white horizon’s
Calypsos leaping in crystal canticles
Erases darkness of the neon midnight sun.

In polar sols...

Categories: uncatchable, color, light, night,
Form: Free verse

Reckless

...Boulevard zooms by in palm prison blur
Delerium fuels my top down journey 
Escape life at high speed, danger's incur
Depicts regret like thick filed attorney 

Fumes turned flumes hit my lung sp...

Categories: uncatchable, anger, car, drug, flying,
Form: Dizain

Not a Love Story

...I cried when my brothers died
When my heart was broken
and when i broke another's
not a good man
but a bad one trying
Trying to outrun uncatchable mistakes
Cried in the deadest morn
and night
...

Categories: uncatchable, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Nobody

...Nobody  -              poem                                             
Here I wonder
Why god has given thunder mind
It doesn’t obey to me
Whirling me on wheel fastly moving
All seems like one ...

Categories: uncatchable, anxiety, evil, nonsense, truth,
Form: Light Verse

Momentarily

...Momentarily
          by Odin Roark

How elusive the quest
To place oneself in sync
Wavelength to wavelength
Response to reply

So many agendas beg ignoring
Those places where integrity remains suspe...

Categories: uncatchable, truth, integrity,
Form: Free verse

What Am I You Must Think

...I creep in through the darkness
And you can feel I’m there
You may be threatened by my starkness
Though I never meant to scare

You can’t see me in the daylight
But you will see what I have don...

Categories: uncatchable, imaginationme, may, me,
Form: Free verse

Hopes and Dreams

...Hopes and dreams are a fickle companion.
Darting in and out as if in no dominion.
Feed them well and they may stay.
Beware, also could they allow so close, then betray.
Ask you, why then will I still...

Categories: uncatchable, hope, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Lyric