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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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· War and Peace

· 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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Keyless Lock

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

It’s that time of year when emotions and cognitive reason try to resist getting messed up.

Thursday, November 28, 2013


Poem Artwork
Keyless Lock
by Odin Roark

How fragile
When abused

How hearty
When respected

How devoted
When tenderly addressed

Yet

Whether of learned value
Life support
Or caressed as metaphor

Loved
Banished
Ignored
Or deemed out of reach

Accessible by kindness
Openable by love
Closable by hate

We should never forget…

Man’s heart forever remains
A keyless lock

 


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Reviewed by RWE SAYS BYE (Reader)
Reviewed on November 29, 2013
Some are just plain insecure, while others are in a permanent state of lock-down... but every once in a while you get those who open up with a rare combination. You, Odin, are one of those, and this is the last review I'll ever post on Author's Den. So it has been nice knowing you, Odin. Maybe we'll meet face to face some day. Until then, I leave you with the immortal words of George Harrison: "Let Out Your Heart, please, from behind that locked door." ...oh, and a bit of Groucho Marxist humour, a door is not a door when its ajar!

Roger

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on November 29, 2013
When I think of all the heartless things that men have done it's hard for me to believe that. However, when it comes to family, most men are heartfelt, at least during holidays for the football game comes on.

Ron

Reviewed by John Bidwell
Reviewed on November 29, 2013
Very well done.
I find this a task every waking moment- to reason my way out of emotional traps.
Truth is not something we discover- it is what teaches us we have not discovered anything.
Life as a flight with no carry on is working best for me.
John

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on November 28, 2013
Damn Odin, thank you for telling the world that men do, indeed, have a heart.


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