Poetry about resilience, heritage, connection, and our way of life.https://itsowol.com/https://itsowol.com/poems/we-were-living-in-the-good-old-days/https://itsowol.com/poems/we-were-living-in-the-good-old-days/We are standing in tomorrow's photographs — mid-sip, mid-smile — And the lighting is kinder than we thoughtSun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/halfway-there/https://itsowol.com/poems/halfway-there/Halfway there. Oh, to be halfway there! To revisit my bygone missteps To utter the words that I should have saidSun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/my-favorite-things/https://itsowol.com/poems/my-favorite-things/Have you ever seen dew, Imperfectly placed on morning petal? Comfortably sitting askew Softly on all of nature's huesSun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/still-we-fight/https://itsowol.com/poems/still-we-fight/This is where we fight, Frost, snow, hailstones and fire, Through incessant hypothesis for tomorrow's attire. Our breaths are free, but dices we hold,Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/blacksmith/https://itsowol.com/poems/blacksmith/We are brought into his chambers, fresh and unsoiled. Hardened metals we are, the shape of our very choosing. In regal purity we, to possess, caused no little toil, And kingly we arrived, disillusioned at the smithery.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/the-race-betwixt/https://itsowol.com/poems/the-race-betwixt/The unrelenting hounds were close behind, pounding the earth as Wrathful as thunder, Cornered was I, vulnerable infant, and optionless, cast Myself off the tower.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/nemesis-of-the-fly/https://itsowol.com/poems/nemesis-of-the-fly/I was sorely harassed with guerrilla tactics, As raindrop, incessant.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/dearth/https://itsowol.com/poems/dearth/There sat the lion with the lamb, T'was a grim spectacle to behold. They came in their hundreds, they came in their thousands, Came sadistic beings, horror to enthrone.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/phobia/https://itsowol.com/poems/phobia/My God, beholdeth such wrath! The puny being be definitely dead. A humane spank was extermination enough, Yet we proceeded to crush its skull.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/nomad-of-shadows/https://itsowol.com/poems/nomad-of-shadows/In the gray dawn, claws from the mist, Eyes hollow, vacant voids, world's cruel jest, A wanderer, sinews stretched taut, Chasing horizons with cracked, bleeding hands.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/a-meditation-on-forces/https://itsowol.com/poems/a-meditation-on-forces/Delightful dreams draw me drowsily down cotton candy skies singing a lullaby, twirling me slowly to their soundSun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/we-were-all-strangers-once/https://itsowol.com/poems/we-were-all-strangers-once/A thousand lifetimes folded small, compressed in cosmic silences, we wandered, particles adrift, each tetherless, each whole,Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/fate/https://itsowol.com/poems/fate/The world has no idea What's to come?Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/it-is-calm-here/https://itsowol.com/poems/it-is-calm-here/There is a calm here And not one that soothes From my perch atop the mountains I grow uneasySun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://itsowol.com/poems/pimpled-ambivalence/https://itsowol.com/poems/pimpled-ambivalence/Off bump upon my face! Knowest not what thou hath defaced? Despised intruder, unbidded guest Yet thy being I must caressSun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT