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Books
· Perceptions

· ECHOSIS

· Prosetry at Work

· Said and Unsaid - Vol 1

· 3 WAY MIRROR


Short Stories
· Patience Waning

· Ladle Lines (A prosetry memory)

· A Gentle Man

· Pacing Love's Journey

· Gratitude

· A Sticky Conversation

· Blazing Now and Then

· Vulnerable Captivity

· The Kite That Would Not Bow

· Time


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· Desperation Breeds Desperation

· Preference Manifest

· Innocent Guilt

· Barbed Isolation

· A Place...

· Sanity's Loss

· Organs Anonymous

· Fatuous Beyond Absurdity

· Truth is One


Poetry
· The Life-long Pernicious Evil

· Cherishing Sounds of Silence

· Understanding the Unexplainable

· Reality of Another Kind

· Finding Trust Again

· Aromalicious Memories

· A Jungle-rain Pastorale

· Sediment Within the Soul

· Life's Enormous Green Chest

· Roadkill Memoriam

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With But Words

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

For those of us relying on language as sustenance, one's lexicon of nourishment must be continually fed.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013


Poem Artwork
With But Words

Lungs of time

Forever purging yesterdays fever and chills
clueless of ether's match for now
today's fresh intake of memories waiting
no longer a calm awakening
our ears await the sound

By chance

While morning may coughing bring
sending dream's breath asunder
caring not for the sparrow's retreat from sill
or the disturbed peace of
last nights pages at rest

We stir

How vacuous early hours may seem
as thought takes leave of dreaming's insistent clatter
begging caffeine's amorous embrace
even as inhaling ingests wakeful elements aroused

Soon

The pen is lifted
greeting Mind's quiet place
that realm where magic releases wonder
asking for voices yet explored

Patiently

Our unspoken words
our unwritten thoughts
awaiting vision's full awakening
take flight with the uptake some call
the Ah Hah moment of gratitude

We lean forward

The pen lifted
timely resonance delivers
today's sustenance
tomorrow's next pages
perhaps future's chance to ruminate  


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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on March 21, 2013
It is amazing how we can live in such a sea of words, and yet, somehow make them make sense just when we want to. Viola! (I believe it is pronounced, “Wha-La.").



Ron

Reviewed by Diana Legun (Reader)
Reviewed on March 21, 2013
Lexicology souffle! Language as sustenance; it is exactly that. This one line: "even as inhaling ingests wakeful elements aroused," affected me in the potent way a description of the baker's first whiff of imagination over the next culinary idea would. Even the word-magnets image looks like the cook's ingredients and no dish will ever be exactly the same. I really like the momentous energy of these lines: "We lean forward.../The pen lifted." It exudes eagerness, which is what the propelling energy is for the composing of written inventions. ~~ Diana

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on March 21, 2013
The 'Ah Hah' moments are marvelous.

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on March 21, 2013
this resonates with the writers plythe
budd

Reviewed by John Domino
Reviewed on March 20, 2013
A writers poetic song... Well done!


Reviewed by Roger Wayne Eberle
Reviewed on March 20, 2013
as the restless cessation of silence punctuates is restless rhythms with cerebral stirrings to tease feeling out of its somnolent state of howsoever long it hibernates or hovers on the edge of uncertain unction... there is among these versatile verses a suspension of alacrity, a lull not entirely acquiescent, not entirely votive, but borne of the usual effervescence I am accustomed to find in your poetry, Odin... I am tempted to play the fool by playing on your name partly in jest, partly in a jubilant affirmation of the depth of commitment you bring to the Den, raising the bar at a glance: O-the extraordinary--O the din--raised to a power of one who inhabits the airy realms of poetry--O the din we hear far from the madding crowd... forgive me, but I had to take that "perhaps future's chance to ruminate" and tell you that I think this poem is first rate.

Roger



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