Abducted Poems

You’re a girl like no other ’cause of what you are. 
It’s not your fault that you got scared,
cry at night or get so lonely in a crowd. 
Every day you ask the same two questions: 
Why me? And when...Read More

In my youth I was strong and inspired,
hoped one day I’d be liked and admired.
But the river of time
has abducted my prime.
Now I feel like old milk: just expired....Read More

Saša Milivojev

WELTSCHMERZ ("WORLD PAIN") - THE PAIN OF THE WORLD



In this century withal
Rivers of blood still flow
Bombs echo
Children are being killed
Heads are being severed
Millions are starving
Diseases are devouring
And you are singing

The gallows are trembling
In the valley of the fallen
In the...Read More

19 HAIKU AND THE HORSE OF FREEDOM

It is never real
Only in the midst of pain
Finally I see 

After the liquor
I am found on the ceiling
crawling to the floor

Let's get on with this
Panic in the avenues
Ominous defeat

Penultimate move
the coyote will win...Read More

Unexpected Cruise

The ship is exactly 40.1 feet long. 
Don’t suppose they could go back, 
and get a larger craft?
I am seasick. 
There is some kind of noise, 
back toward the aft…
Should I be more concerned?

I am not overly excited,
yet fear...Read More

scariness), which ill affords this unlucky husband 
to maximize tasting, savoring and relishing every 
sacred moment lest any given instantaneous moment 
find me in dire circumstantial straitjackets, I cannot 
stomach enduring another moment remaining, NOT 

blissfully married, yet acknowledge options...Read More

Tribute to The Street Kids of Mumbai Documentary  


I  used to pick pockets
And steal tomato at the market place
I beg on the streets of Mumbai, India’s largest city
I stop drivers and ask for spare change 
I usually get...Read More

I remember, oh how I remember
the years that have gone by.
Our doors were never bolted
our windows never closed.
Women had part time jobs
knocking on doors all afternoon,
their comely voices bidding:
Madam 'tis Avon calling for you.
Meantime grandma would sit
outside the house and...Read More

Four Two Nine Eight Washington Street
My childhood address
A place where neighbors were not afraid to spank us
And mothers handed out homemade cookies without fear
of being arrested

Four Two Nine Eight Washington Street
A place where we could hear Mrs.McGill's laughter day and...Read More

The Chinese store has everything 
so be observant when you walk in. 
The Chinese store has everything, 
Matchbox, paper bag and red watch
The Chinese store has everything
Wall clock old keys and old lock
The Chinese store has everything 
If you look...Read More

His parents' worst nightmare that left them disheartened
is the sad tragic tale of Dennis Lloyd Martin

On a family outing at Cades Cove park
Dennis, his brother and some friends on a lark

Playing hide and go seek as they always had
well within...Read More

A Life Bereft Of Healthy Risk = >
Absolute Zero Value

Spectator role questioned,
(sans existence, no more
relegated to sidelines), else
yours truly cannot endure
foregoing one after another

golden opportunity to restore
adrenaline rush say jumping
without parachute, (egg nor
ring danger), yea donning wax
feather & wax wings...Read More

I was hungry and headed to one of the tents that had been set up as a field kitchen and noticed Tim who came over to talk to me , he said that he was a keen ornithologist in his...Read More

Shadows
Written: by Tom Wright
10-25-2016

Ghosts of previous years defy escape,
Emotionally swaddled in a bullet proof vest
I sit in the corner of my mind as if abducted.

In this abbreviated state I wander twixt reality, 
And dreams of my subconscious; 

While roaming through...Read More

No sound
there are

Silently 
they seek me

Reciprocal breaths are
running in alphabetic words

Rhythms of rhymes are 
tuning with sunny rays

Deserted abode 
on the lawn of snow

Suddenly, hue and cry 
burst into airs
“He is not here-
in the room of souls;
on the root of...Read More

Excuse me, sir, have you seen
A journal of purple and green?
Monetary worth is quite lean
But within - reams and reams
Of my most private things
For any stranger's eye to claim

My stolen soul, opened and seen
My secret thoughts, unlocked
My work falling into...Read More

When that old tree fell on the ground, 
along fell all the buds and pretty flowers 
all that was green and glooming,
everything that the roots held together.

All that is left now 
are broken twigs,
withering flowers,
and decaying leaves
dispersed all over the...Read More

The Amistad Mutiny

Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it is pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,
Sailing the Atlantic Middle Passage leg of the...Read More

Mountaintop of ice and pain the fear 
of loneliness is absorbed and abducted 
right under the watch of my sanity

Done in by my thoughts 
I'm riddled with anxiety 
eyes won't close in the night

No ink left to dry as sorrow...Read More

Immigrants Abducted and Corrupted

After all of them  are already abducted,
Could be that they ended up corrupted;
Then  mettled,
And unsettled;
Much  more bad behavior had erupted.

Jim Horn...Read More

The time is always wrong and consciousness is a deformed perception of reality we combine with artificial thought.
Prove you're here prove you're there. Truth is everywhere in secret and fabrication is the child of mind raised under surveillance of the...Read More

(when living nightmare pierced real time
thus engendering the following rhyme)

adrenaline powered stealth bomb blast 
with the noggin of this, ah... ur... bane chap, 
     which debilitating anxiety doth outlast
means to cope (thunder and dumb struck) 
...Read More

We are human being with a soul
We were taken from the North and South Pole
And left in a basket at the flagpole
If all the relics in history were unfold
You would discover that the real threshold
Is bound up in threefold
And you...Read More

  (  It seemed the only thing eternal life has left me is eternal tears. 
For my lost son Christopher; named after the god who suffers. )



           ...Read More

Too slow is the speed of life, 
so we try to outrun avalanches and race sounds, 
flee into roaring tubes of hungry water, 
brave invisible waves in the sky. 

Too barren is the landscape of life, 
so we take shelter...Read More