Roderick Makim

Joined November 2021

87 stories

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Read one too many adventure stories as a child and decided I'd make that my life.

I grew up on a cattle station in the Australian Outback and decided to spend the rest of my life seeing the rest of the world.

For more: www.roderickmakim.com

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Runner-Up in Full Moon Challenge

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Raise the Crooked
Uprising begins In beaten minds In imprisoned Prisms of thought Corruption and despotism Cronyism and nepotism Common people
By Roderick Makim8 months ago in Poets
Walking back along the beach at Son Tra of an evening
A trio Of sunset paragliders Dive through the sky They dip and sway Like dancers At a rave Moving fast and free. She feels the movement,
By Roderick Makim8 months ago in Poets
Tree roots & wheat fields
Gnarled and broken Exposed over stones Down the dirt embankment Old tree roots Searching for the safety Of Earth Of dirt
By Roderick Makim8 months ago in Poets
The Man Who Refused To Know Himself
He approached his own Mortality Sidewinder style Sliding his mind Above, away, up From the burning sand Of self As much as possible,
By Roderick Makim9 months ago in Poets
Fashion and Meaning and Time
Sometime early Before the present light We wore black Only for mourning - Only for those times of grieving Losses noticeable even in times
By Roderick Makim10 months ago in Poets
The Uncommercial Traveller (1860 - 2025)
Looking down on the clouds We fly as slow as mist Down jungle-deep mountains Endless tea plantations Ravines and rivers
By Roderick Makim11 months ago in Poets
Sunk Cost Fallacy
The big lies Never die They only become Unorthodox Too many people Paid too much Of themselves To ever truly Let them go.
By Roderick Makim11 months ago in Poets
Galle to Weligama
Down the beach We cruise To thumping techno Tunes, playing Tuk-tuk tetris Dodging traffic Avoiding buses with Peacocking decorations
By Roderick Makim11 months ago in Poets
NEW BOOK - In Adelma, where it is always dusk
A collection of poems and stories written over the past 12 months about the world in which we once lived, live now, and the world in which we might. Memory and loss, future and past, travel and home, and all the wonderful and terrible contradictions of life.
By Roderick Makimabout a year ago in Writers
Moriana
Ford the raging river To white walls Mermaid fountains Silver scales Beckoning you to Swim. _ Ignore the blackened Tin
By Roderick Makimabout a year ago in Poets
On choosing a cover page
It starts getting hot in November. The Australian summer technically goes from December - February but really, everyone knows November is a summer month down here.
By Roderick Makimabout a year ago in Writers
A peaceful Spring morning in an Australian country town
Cool breeze flows through The invisible river of Warm sunlight Little chirps of birdsong Tickle minds underneath the Louder sound
By Roderick Makimabout a year ago in Poets

Roderick Makim

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Raise the Crooked

Walking back along the beach at Son Tra of an evening

Tree roots & wheat fields

The Man Who Refused To Know Himself

Fashion and Meaning and Time

The Uncommercial Traveller (1860 - 2025)

Sunk Cost Fallacy

Galle to Weligama

NEW BOOK - In Adelma, where it is always dusk

Moriana

On choosing a cover page

A peaceful Spring morning in an Australian country town

Achievements (1)