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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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Writers We Of Different Need

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

It’s easy to get lost in thinking our goal should be mass consumption through commercial publication. But, for some of us, it is the reward of fewer numbers, the small handful, followed by other needful seekers, a minority suddenly realizing the power of language does indeed nurture the discovery of conscience. (Image by pinterest)

Saturday, September 20, 2014


Poem Artwork
Writers We Of Different Need
by Odin Roark

Ones,
only few can know,
even fewer choose to understand.

Residing in a place
where movement of mind and spirit
roams the beyond of shadows,
arresting the possible
forward to the obvious.

Pursuing the why of what,
that haven the inner-self finds comforting,
where once lurked but a dark flirtation
with that revelation beneath life’s facade
now of joy laboring fearlessly
amidst inner-light and vision.

What Only Few Have Known,
now reaches out to many who yearn to know.

All that is necessary
is at our fingertips,
ready to become a voice
for many of mute spirit,
starving to escape
echoless halls of stagnation,
conscious of their shackled impotence,
yet unaware beneath the fear,
expression awaits liberation.

And so it continues…

With pencil in hand,
we return to the page,
not as saviors,
but as needful messengers.


  


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Reviewed by Michael True
Reviewed on September 26, 2014
The profits would agree. M.True

Reviewed by Kate Burnside
Reviewed on September 21, 2014
Great art to complement great thoughts, Odin. Writing is a two-way street, I believe, and I'm constantly delighted and astonished by those cherished 'few' who contribute more by their response than I could ever have set out on my own. It's so very humbling when our work can be a glorious collaboration of minds rendering it greater than the sole number of lines on the page or the sum of its parts. Excellent, thank you. xx

Reviewed by Jansen Estrup
Reviewed on September 21, 2014
Guilty as charged. The shackled impotence is particularly difficult to accept. Great insight, Odin (you many-eyed myth) ...

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on September 21, 2014
Expression awaits Liberation - indeed it does - Write On.

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on September 20, 2014
There is an element of nobleness in this message, Kent, and it rings clarion in me. IMO it reads like an anthem for the unpretentiously driven. Certainly a far cry from the growing glut of pied-piper poet/writers seeking fans and shallow praise. You are on top of your craft here. A message well received. Peace to you...


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