Roderick Makim

Joined November 2021

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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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Inadvertently overhearing an argument from the couple at the next table in the café
So much from So little _ Glean from A glance He was born into a Drought Scrubbed by sun Shrubs weeds In spiked prickly tufts
By Roderick Makim2 years ago in Poets
The Bright Herald
Flowers like snow cover Frostbitten branches as Late winter sun tries to break into Spring. _ A flash of colours warm and bright
By Roderick Makim2 years ago in Poets
Mythos and logos
Language is memory Remembered not learned Encoded in neurons Computed in synapses. _ How else did this violent ape arrive at this
By Roderick Makim2 years ago in Poets
How it begins
From complacency Arises atrocity. _ The longer people say ‘Look at the beautiful flowers - see How they shine in the dark’
By Roderick Makim2 years ago in Poets
Drums in the dusk
Drums in the dusk in Peja   Clashing beats from different drummers  In the square Mix into their own new beat  And even the beggars smile
By Roderick Makim2 years ago in Poets
Busking in a small country town in Australia
Music spreads like shade under the hot morning sun. A small crowd in a Small town but The music spreads out. _ A large woman, a larger voice.
By Roderick Makim2 years ago in Poets
Home or the road
Somewhere to go, Somewhere to be. _ Belonging and Ownership Or Longing to own Nothing. _ Finding adventure In the endless journey
By Roderick Makim2 years ago in Poets
Doomscrolling on
World War III is trending Again. - Banality of horror. - Nothing is incomprehensible To the Algorithm. - World War III
By Roderick Makim2 years ago in Poets
Love songs
What is the music That moves you? _ What is the joke That makes you Laugh Alone? _ The thought That brings the Smile
By Roderick Makim2 years ago in Poets
Zoe. Top Story - April 2024.
What line separates the Rumble of the wheels From the Howl of the wolves? _ Can you find it Here In the endless prefabrication?
By Roderick Makim2 years ago in Poets
Democracy eclipsed
Exaggerated elegy over the Corpse of democracy, less a Lament of the dead, laying there for all to see Interred in public, than a
By Roderick Makim2 years ago in Poets
Lost voices
Walking alone at night through the blight of concrete and glass, he first felt the whispers of the trees. But he did not hear them.
By Roderick Makim2 years ago in Fiction

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Inadvertently overhearing an argument from the couple at the next table in the café

The Bright Herald

Mythos and logos

How it begins

Drums in the dusk

Busking in a small country town in Australia

Home or the road

Doomscrolling on

Love songs

Zoe. Top Story - April 2024.

Democracy eclipsed

Lost voices

Achievements (1)