Roderick Makim

Joined November 2021

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Bio

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

Stories (54/0)

Drifting
Drifting on the Hazy edges of the Second, secret lives We all live _ Bumping in and out Of consciousness On a bumpy road somewhere between
By Roderick Makimabout a month ago in Poets
Strange evolution
Strange aeons Under earth Becoming stone . _ Dug up By hairless apes Barely prey when Prowled the land Did I
By Roderick Makim2 months ago in Poets
Three journeys to Ukraine, 2014 – 2022. Content Warning.
(First Journey) _ Pickled tomatoes and vodka and Distressingly dill-flavoured chicken in Kiev – (No, Kyiv, I am told)
By Roderick Makim2 months ago in Wander
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 Makim3 months 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 Makim3 months 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 Makim3 months 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 Makim3 months 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 Makim3 months 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 Makim3 months 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 Makim3 months 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 Makim3 months 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 Makim4 months ago in Poets

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Roderick Makim

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Stories (54/0)

Drifting

Strange evolution

Three journeys to Ukraine, 2014 – 2022. Content Warning.

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

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