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Books
· Perceptions

· ECHOSIS

· Prosetry at Work

· Said and Unsaid - Vol 1

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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


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· 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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How Precious Life

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Today's tragedy reminds me that experience is often utterly beyond acceptance.

Friday, December 14, 2012

How Precious Life
by Odin Roark

Can we ever rekindle loss of life
That enigmatic effervescent glow of matter
Housed in a sentient mass
Where hearts and minds
See
Hear
Feel
Vibrations lesser life knows not of

Oh how sweet the breath of life
The in and out of sensorial perceptions
Each with its own personal footprint
Its own personal destiny

To take that life
To remove that vibration
Moving about to learn
Intuit
Aspire
Learning of love
To take that life...

One can only send caring oscillations
So many strangers
Yet one
So many parents
Yet community
So many brothers and sisters
Yet...
Yet...

Such bewilderment we face

Such heart crushing introspection needed

To heal
To globally become aware that
Minds often need help
Even as we often forget to...
Ask
    


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Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on December 15, 2012
I am sure the ramifications of this horrific act will ripple for years. A new gun control paradigm, I'm certain, will emerge because of it. Thankyou for sharing your thoughts ...

Reviewed by Jansen Estrup
Reviewed on December 15, 2012
The horror! Such acts not only take lives but inflict lifelong suffering in the survivors - the horror is and has been worldwide - your admonition to 'ask' for help is relatively new and I hope it falls on compassionate ears the world over. Nicely penned so soon
after the dirty deed.

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on December 15, 2012
yes my friend bewildered and mourning so very many so very young
budd

Reviewed by Axilea MU
Reviewed on December 14, 2012
We forget to ask, because we have gradually forgotten all the links that make sense, between knowledge and ethics, family members, humans and nature, members of society... Your lines are written with hope and bewilderment, also, with dignity and love that heals.

Axilea


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