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· Patience Waning

· Ladle Lines (A prosetry memory)

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· Pacing Love's Journey

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· A Sticky Conversation

· Blazing Now and Then

· Vulnerable Captivity

· The Kite That Would Not Bow

· Time


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· Fatuous Beyond Absurdity

· Truth is One


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· Understanding the Unexplainable

· Reality of Another Kind

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· A Jungle-rain Pastorale

· Sediment Within the Soul

· Life's Enormous Green Chest

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Awakening's Discovery

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

Might we somehow be lulling ourselves into slumber as aging suggests the time is short?

Tuesday, January 28, 2014


Poem Artwork
Awakening’s Discovery
by Odin Roark

Once you discover
Who you are
Where you’ve been
Why the paths chosen

Something happens
Urging ever forward
Blank white flutterings
Pages unwritten

So many chapters now past
Unlike authoring a book
Ones words
Action and resolve
Remain fixed

Yet

Up ahead
Waits the anxious
Seconds
Minutes
Hours
Making up the days
Where as before
We can still design
The continuing story
Defining future chapters
Acknowledging the drifting sands
Of one’s hourglass
Perpetual

After all
Like all of existence
Energy never stops
Save any directional change
That limbo stage
So brief
So meaningful
Promising anew
Tomorrow’s discovery

We only need awaken



 


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Reviewed by Kate Burnside
Reviewed on January 29, 2014
Awaken is true, Odin. I came alive about ten years ago now, I reckon, but am probably only feeling like I can capitalise on all my previous 46 years now. As Anais Nin suggests, we have only to find the optimum time to bloom... all the rest has been ready in waiting. Sweet dreams until then! :) xx

Reviewed by Michael True
Reviewed on January 29, 2014
Awareness is a darkened cell of solitary confinement, an elephant's stampede, a sky diver's leap of faith. Often hard to say whether it is better to acquiesce or get out of the way. Although it is our heart's desire to be in control of our destiny, it seems, all too often that life has other ideas. M.True

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on January 29, 2014
We can "awaken" as you describe and move on, but there may come a time after we awaken we are unable to get up and move on. I find it now that I have defined my life my autobiography, I still have to continue to add unwritten chapters in the time to come.

Ron

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on January 28, 2014
a fine write
budd

Reviewed on January 28, 2014
Everything has a kinetic energy , although short our time here.


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