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Dom Mart
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0 posted 2001-05-30 06:47 AM




Orin Okerdink decided
He was average through and through.
He ate, belched and scratched his ear
The way average people do.

It was a comfort to be average.
He could look around and see
That nearly everybody else
Was just as average as he.

He once had dreams of being great--
A hero for all ages.
Those dreams lie in a closet now
Packed in faded diary pages.

Orin will peek into a page,
And a dream will fly out free.
He'll close the book, "I'm average,"
He'll say. "Such dreams are not for me."

One by one the dreams escape.
Orin lets them them fly away.
And if anyone is interested,
Orin's average to this day.

© Copyright 2001 Dom Mart - All Rights Reserved
Poet deVine
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1 posted 2001-05-30 09:09 AM


I love the title here! And there is a good lesson written within these verses. Well done!!!  
Irish Rose
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2 posted 2001-05-30 09:26 AM


How delightful!

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee


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3 posted 2001-05-31 10:09 PM


I truly enjoyed the flow and message of this.  Very well done!!  Sounds like a good one to have in high school classrooms and business lounges.
Denise
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4 posted 2001-06-02 09:12 AM


We become what we think we are, so true! Great poem, Dom!
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