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· Perceptions

· ECHOSIS

· Prosetry at Work

· Said and Unsaid - Vol 1

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· 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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· A Place...

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· 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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To Be Known

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Occasionally, simple human interest stories can leave one wondering what it’s all about. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/04/joseph-dog-chained-4-years-ohio_n_4045922.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/04/grommet-foggy-rescue_n_4045717.html

Saturday, October 5, 2013


Poem Artwork
To Be Known
by Odin Roark

Longing to be known
Is not unlike emotions
Often fooling your security
That speedball your heart
That desperately hold on

Not unlike daydreams
That temporarily provide solace
While walking
Climbing
Flying

Not unlike hope
That never-ending relay
The teardrop perpetually in check
The opportunity just out of reach

But like facts finally accepted
Proving the sun always rises
The tide embraces its ebb
Time’s constant tick forever trusts its tock

Life provides love
Longing to be known
Truly known
If only to one

  


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Reviewed by Michael True
Reviewed on October 6, 2013
A cosmic connection. M.True

Reviewed by Tao Chi
Reviewed on October 6, 2013
To me if humans could see that the loyalty of one is more precious than popularity and the loyalty of none. When i was a child driving with my grandfather from Washington to Oregon he showed me the wild Bison. This year in Washington, I asked my uncle about them, he said you won't find them anywhere. Something is wrong. A flock of Turkeys were walking through my neighborhood, some thought it was so cute, to me it indicates , something is wrong. Just my opinion. The whale would have never had the issue if it were not for human interference. Something was wrong.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on October 5, 2013
The good news is that we are becoming more human because these stories and videos have become “viral” and bring to the consciousness of unconscious people the full weight of their actions.

I just saw a Discovery channel series started with Man, Cheetah… The fifth-generation African whose grandfather saved his own life while being dragged by a huge male lion by stabbing it to death with his hunting knife, is now trying to save species. He has bonded with wild cheetahs, wild African dogs, and while lion prides, without any weapons except his understanding of these predators' social habits and electronic tracking so that he can be up close and personal with them every day. Amazing! What the love of one man for our lesser creatures can do.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/man-cheetah-wild

Ron

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on October 5, 2013
Occasionally, simple human interest stories can leave one wondering what it’s all about.

Joseph's man-made plight was truly horrific, but believe it or not, I and many other pet rescuers have found dogs in even worse shape than he was - dogs that are now walking skeletons, even more emaciated than Joseph was, discarded by their own families like the trash.

The longer that I live, and the more horrors that I sadly see with my own eyes at the hands of human beings, I often do wonder what it's all about.

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on October 5, 2013
You betcha. You zeroed in on the primary thing which we all (some say not, but they lie) are Longing to be known / Truly known / If only to one. Great shot of the whale emerging from the water in a show off gratitude.


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