It Was A Christmas Of Long Ago
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It was a Christmas of oh! long ago
pine trees were dappled with frozen snow
it was a time when Noels were chimed
alongside ladders of life, still unclimbed
It was a season of pure ...
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Categories:
unclimbed, appreciation, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Over The Rainbow
...Beauty and truth
forever embark
Born of the moment
together apart
To mountains unclimbed
and oceans unsailed
Beyond the horizon
— where prescience unveils
(Dreamsleep: September, 2024)
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Categories:
unclimbed, beauty, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Peak Unclimbed
...Through troubled times I traveled far,
lugging life with lanced dreams’ deep scar.
Twilight tinged the mountain mystique,
I couldn’t climb the attainment peak,
failed life faded like ...
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Categories:
unclimbed, analogy, life, success,
Form: Quintilla
On Main Street Time Drags An Empty Shoe
...Engines turn-over only to drift backwards
into the on-going.
Cats cling to kids and kitchens.
Discarded are the shopping shoes.
Stale ideas grow dust clouds
in that space between our skulls...
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Categories:
unclimbed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Finding My Muse
...The surging stream cascades in swirling ebullience
Through dancing shadows of swaying trees entranced
The spectral dew drops draping the glinted grass tips
Weave lattice of splendor on the meadow ...
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Categories:
unclimbed, fantasy, imagery, inspiration, muse,
Form: Free verse
Broken Glass
...Broken Glass
Bits of color...
washed up on the beach.
Items that tell stories,
about faraway places,
new people, and old.
Red like roses, fine wine in winter...
Yellow like the flowe...
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Categories:
unclimbed, appreciation, cancer, creation, dance,
Form: Free verse
The Time In My Mind
...I sat too long in a window watching as life passed me by
Consumed by fear or feeling ashamed to try
Often I wonder what magic did those lost days’ hold
Did I miss out on a life larger, greater and...
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Categories:
unclimbed, angst, sorrow, time,
Form: Rhyme
Success
...Nebulous ambition drifts away amorphous
floating on the formless wings of wispy clouds,
the destination disappears in the hued height of sky,
falling on the debris of hollow aspiration....
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Categories:
unclimbed, encouraging, happiness, joy,
Form: Free verse
Poet Profound
...The cascading stream leaping in swirling ebullience
Through dancing shadows of swaying trees entranced
The spectral dew drops draping the glinting grass tips
Weave lattice of splendor on the meado...
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Categories:
unclimbed, inspiration, muse, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Part Time Poet
...Up the tortuous mountain trail
sun-soaked summit unclimbed,
down the meandering valley spine
emerald sparkled plains unreached,
mindless I dragged life disillusioned
as the slothful drudge of tr...
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Categories:
unclimbed, life, poets,
Form: Free verse
Stay True To You Be Your Own
...When the first man left the trees for the cave,
did those men in the trees think him crazed,
as he grazed land did they look on amazed,
why leave your known home and natural place?
Overtime tre...
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Categories:
unclimbed, appreciation, character, confidence, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Success In Failure
...Nebulous ambition drifts away
on wings of wispy clouds,
destination disappears in blue height of sky
falling on debris of hollow aspiration.
Ladder of constrained effort stands steep shaking,
i...
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Categories:
unclimbed, heartbreak, joy, smile, success,
Form: Free verse
The Language of the Mountains
...THE LANGUAGE OF THE MOUNTAINS
These are MY own mountains,
Which have been admired by many pilgrims before me.
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Categories:
unclimbed, language, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
The Gift of Words
...It’s said that God bestows on us, each and every soul,
A special gift just meant for us, to make our lifetime whole.
How often I have thought about what gift was to be mine.
I waited for His one b...
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Categories:
unclimbed, god, poetry, words, writing,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Unclimbed Stairways
...Unclimbed Stairways
by Odin Roark
At the base of the stairs
He lay on his back
Upon his chest
He propped his hero
Peering up through GI Joe’s
Stand-your-ground stance
All se...
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Categories:
unclimbed, trust,
Form: Free verse
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