Temperament
...TEMPERAMENT
influential
crosstalk
expressed
a tinkering
with feelings
in
troubled
&
exhausting
circumstances
encouraging questions
& answers
bringing
an energetic
new reson...
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Categories:
unpunctuated, poetry,
Form: Other
God's Poems
...God’s poems are not finger-stabbed to tiny screens,
hurtful, unkind, sent unseen, abbreviated and unpunctuated,
short and shorthanded, words landed without care or thought.
He does not swipe to le...
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Categories:
unpunctuated, abuse, anti bullying, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Eye of a Captive Elephant
...I have looked into
a zoo elephant's eye- I felt nothing pass between us
How to describe, what seemed to be,
an out of focus camera lens.
I saw no flicker of response- it took
the carrot from m...
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Categories:
unpunctuated, animal, freedom, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Longitude
...The Longitude
Woke up by the stream
of kind nature
I had no recollection
of a past,
this was now, an expanding
presence,
as water rings made
by a stone thrown into a lake,
till it ...
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Categories:
unpunctuated, absence, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Awakening the Dream
...Awakening the Dream
by Odin Roark
Even in a dream
A poet’s page
Starts blank
Restlessly
The inscrutable pen hovers
Awareness preparing absorption
Like a dry valley of nature
Awaiting ...
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Categories:
unpunctuated, dream,
Form: Free verse