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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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Imagining the Unimaginable (revisited)

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Having just seen “Intersteller” I was reminded of this older poem that perhaps has greater relevance now than before. (Image by BGpics)

Sunday, November 16, 2014


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Imagining the Unimaginable
By Odin Roark

As time looks around,
ancient yet so new is the thrust of the cave man's spear,
the flood of his primal wail
echoing through the narrow memory of man's mind.

Newer still are we who walk with false pride of modern man,
losing daily the value of remembrances,
hubris-blinded by present and future
as something greater than the past.

The vanity of “We” might never again
appreciate yesterday's language
on the rocks,
walls,
parchment,
paper,
iPad screens,
and holograms.

Beware

For even as we surge forward,
so too does our progress oft times choose to forget
we are always but cosmos-cavemen
buried deep inside our pride.

Life will always remain a never ending transformation
subject only to the imagined unimaginable.

Time's creation is forever looking around.
While we...



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Reviewed by lois christensen
Reviewed on November 16, 2014
The unimaginable I can imagine and do so each day. It works for me should work for others too. Life isn't difficult, life is precious and each new day I imagine something good is going to come by me.


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