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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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· 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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Briefcase Weight

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

- It often takes a lifetime to understand the “who” of who you are… often painfully.

Friday, December 8, 2023


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Briefcase Weight

 

How alluring the climb for a corner office

The center of attraction at board meetings

The go-to guy or gal for extra work needs

But…

Oh, the weight of those untruthful papers

The guise of honesty chasing the carrot

Only to find it’s a reality out of reach

 

Perhaps a fall or two

Registers an awakening

Or

Enhances your denial of greed

 

Beware…

 

It may keep you graveling

To reach the top again

Only to find

The stakes higher

The fall more precipitous

The darkness of trying to be who you’re not

All-consuming as you throw down another

Boilermaker

 

 

 

 



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Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on December 9, 2023
I learned early in life to travel light, and in my many travels, I always perpetuated this lesson, leaving behind unpacked "all those things we are not."

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on December 8, 2023
I have always shied away from greed and sought the higher need. That too, has not been easy, but it doesn't make my briefcase heavy or heart bleed.

Ron


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