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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


Articles
· 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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The Neediest

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New York’s Neediest Cases Fund prompts us that others, even less fortunate, often relapse into a previous condition, mode of conduct or criminal behavior. It is a bleakness not to be wished on anyone, reminding us there is much to be thankful for.

Monday, December 9, 2013


Poem Artwork
The Neediest
by Odin Roark

Still life furnished room
Broken chair
One dare not sit on
Narrow bed
Hard to sleep on
Table leaning
Daren’t eat on
Two-burner
Caked hard with spilt on
Out the window
Hope often stomped on

Someone’s present year
Destined to be long gone

    


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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on December 10, 2013
"There but for fortune go you or I." There are very few that are insulated from possibility of being needy, although many would claim otherwise. Your words reach down and touch us where it counts.

Ron

Reviewed by Michael True
Reviewed on December 9, 2013
Succinct - too many are dying to forget. M.True

Reviewed by Tao Chi
Reviewed on December 9, 2013
When you've been there you learn to be thankful for the simplest things in life. There was a time many moons ago I would have been even appreciative of that one room, to have a roof and a bed. Depends on where you are at the time in life. Some would love to just have that and feel that their need had been met. Depends on what spectrum of life experienced, I guess.

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on December 9, 2013
so sad that it is for many
budd

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on December 9, 2013
Been there.


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