Best Absconds Poems
Nine o’clock dark
Stage for shark swim
Deep arc stakeout
Sailors phishing
Not squaring news
Sparing no one
Once debutante
Vessel vaunt sinks
For daunt of men
Dawns a new day
Silent gray-blue
Sea fray absconds
Categories:
absconds, dark, sea,
Form:
Than-Bauk
While my happiness hawls in a dark cave of self-doubt, I smile.
Burying my brain cells in the grave of immense fear, I speak.
While my dreams burn in the dreary path of desolation, I suffer to sleep.
Shedding rivers of blood
enough to fill the midnight ocean, I walk.
I welcome each morning with a hammering heart.
I extend warm handshakes with cold hands.
I dance to the looney tunes with quivering feet.
I share my bold thoughts with frozen blood in my veins.
That day when I gave a presentation,
I received applause and appreciation
Everyone called me a brave heart,
But deep inside, I remained a cadaver in graveyard.
That day when I first met your family,
I broke the ice with a soothing melody
Everyone in the abode surmised me as chirpy
My chest alone knows the pain it endured in that pseudo joyful journey.
When you saw me strong, I was undeniably weak inside.
When you saw me smile, you saw me who wasn't at all there.
When the sweetness of my song bloomed your heart, bile was burning the walls of my throat.
When you were witnessing my collar lifting moment , I was actually stopping my collar bones from breaking.
I wish to wake up to the tick of alarm clock but wake up to the thump of my pounding heart.
I wish to hug the dreams in the deep night's sleep but I fall prey to the paws of nightmares.
My eye lens capture a non-existing image
My brain maps the present to a buried past
My heart fears a fictitious
occurance
My body absconds into an unknown destination.
You feel I'm insane
But I'm enduring excruciating pain
No! No, I'm not overplaying,
And no, I'm not at all
shamming
I feel I need not be sorry for what I am
Because I'm riding above the clouds to do my best in this lifespan.
Categories:
absconds, depression,
Form:
Free verse
After July abdicates, august August arrives,
and the year advances, as annually agreed.
After assessing alternative alternatives and accords,
as anticipated, no other affirmative alternative is advanced.
Actually August is always an annual actuality, affably accepted
as amicable and always awaited ardently, as July avidly absconds!
Anxiously active actions advise August adherents, to atrabilious accordingly,
as days are abridged and abbreviated, around-the-clock! Slowly
as all administrations adjourn, advocates abort all agonistic argument,
as analysis of aforethought Acts are advanced, and addendums
are amicably agreed. After appropriate and amusing accolades are accepted,
all approve of appeasement, as another additional accidental adventitious
activity appears! August is always appreciated and advances, as aide-de-camps
award and authorise aristocrats and actuaries, to amalgamate advertising agencies,
although angry animosity always aggravates, angers, and aggrieves
anti-agreement antagonists! Assuaging angry aged academics and agents,
aghast at angry animosity, always attracts acrimonious atrabilious attention.
As an acknowledged antidote, an amusing anecdote is always acceptable,
as an agreeable anaesthetic appetizer, and allaying fears. An atmosphere
of aggravated argument, also assures all august, August activities are
axed and abolished abruptly, as September appropriately and advisedly appears!
Adieu, Adios, Arrivederci, Au revoir August and Amen!
Rhymer. September 1st, 2016..
Categories:
absconds, august,
Form:
Alliteration
Haphazard chaos became the norm.
Attention Deficit Disorder brought the storm
Throw in a little hyperactivity and boys.
Rip roaring commotion and a disarray of toys.
Every action challenged serenity.
Drama pierced peaceful woodlands rowdily.
Never did their pain elicit such hatred.
Every shout was hurtful, unthinking, and mean.
Vulnerability increased; love lost its sheen.
Endless name-calling wrought two boy’s punches.
Respectable young brothers forgot to love.
Family split asunder by parental blunder.
Excruciating pain filled their children’s brain.
Love was offered; rejection brought hate.
The children cried; victims of the state.
Social services skillfully dismantled parental bonds.
Ordering a gambit of activities; family love absconds.
Guilty or not, it did not matter; love was marked.
Opportunity to hate had opened every door.
Ordinarily, the boys had been happy and respectful.
Dismantled; hatred never felt so good.
Copyright March 10, 2014
Written for Poetry Soup Member Contest: Love or Hate pick a subject #2 –
Sponsor Shadow Hamilton
Form: Acrostic with Rhyme
Categories:
absconds, anger, corruption, depression, family,
Form:
Acrostic
Awakening to the scent left of you
in haze of incandescent light
your form still imprinted in my sheets
your perfume still on my pillows...
I remember you spooning next to me
with your sultry satin smile
love that blossomed into magical moments
our souls united and conjoined...
And when the nights are torn asunder
I recall the scent of your hair
my soul the seed and you the planter
out of the ground into celestial sky..
Missing you more than I thought I would
haunted by the ghost of you
your silhouette caressed by moonlight
the smell of your perfume that lingers..
The enchanting kisses and fevered touch
spirits that bewitched and bemoaned
making love under licorice sheets
ghost of you in gown of blue and gray...
Often I awaken next to your ghost
ghost that absconds souls like precious gems
and for a singular second we dance and embrace
then you disappear into a falling star..
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Categories:
absconds, beauty, love, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
Big crowd gathering,
Street mime motions;
Silence speaks loud
By this bench,
Mall-side pavilion;
Busy feet greet
Shoppe sales,
Brisk human traffic;
Up sell more stuff
City mall heat,
Air-con breakdown;
Sweaty auras
Fauna and flora,
Wild flowers bloom;
Singing in the rain
Lovely lovebirds:
Octopus tentacles;
Shyness absconds
Morning psalm
Sparrow songbird;
Balcony recital
Window view slant
Bamboo pines sway;
Dancing in the breeze
Traffic jam horde
To conquer the world;
Financial district
Hospital visit,
Sick relative;
Laughter prescribes
Slow motion fumbles,
Ageing constellations;
Dementia flowering
Leon Enriquez
26 Mar 2014
Singapore
Categories:
absconds, feelings,
Form:
Haiku
Time draws us closer
If we salute social partners
Who bless our lives, eliminating any stressor
From the corners
Where time creates quality time
To share
To climb to the prime
Level of the care
We disperse and dispense
In the interaction
Whose essence
Consolidates affection
In words, in actions
Deliberately meant
To invite benedictions
In every second spent
Strengthening ties
Within friendships
Where lies and spies
Sail in the opposite direction in ships
Whose poison
Far from the centre
Where treason
Gets no chance to enter
In a bid to plant seeds
Whose germination
Multiplies feeds and weeds
That trample affection
Underfoot
Increasing the chasm
Whose right or left foot
Sparks a spasm whose sarcasm and cytoplasm
Weakens bonds
Meant to grow from strength to strength
As evil absconds
To its full breadth and length
Signifying the rebirth
A partnership
Deserves beyond the birth
It witnesses in discipleship and fellowship
As every chime
Time sounds
Spurs a climb
To the next relationship rounds on gregarious grounds.
Categories:
absconds, poems,
Form:
Free verse
“The storm has truly unleashed its full fury,”
The perfectly coiffured, newswoman says.
She is not worried about the low taste
Of purloining these old and outdated clichés.
Over and over the same words repeated,
Until sensitive folks shut the set off and leave
To pick up a volume of favorite poems.
Each knows in these pages, he’ll find a reprieve.
No good poet absconds with the words of another
To blatantly claim them as his thoughts alone.
He edits, revises and often will change them
Until he is proud of a work all his own.
It is only then he’ll unleash his creation
On eager readers to critique or to laud.
Praying the ayers will out weigh the nayers,
He’ll happily bow as they cheer and applaud.
Won a 5th
Categories:
absconds, on writing and words,
Form:
Quatrain
Lone Wolf…
He is the irony unto his lonesome self
Thrust upon this world
A cub youngling
He absconds from family
In search of something else
The Lone Wolf…
A spirit found, a spirit lost
Travails path of storm and wind
Looking and seeking
The nomad hunter without friends
Loneliness the only cost
A Lone Wolf…
Forever bearing the intensity of heart
Burning into mind’s eye
Sardonic is his never knowing
Consequence of playing part
Lone Wolf…
Finding refuge within darkness…
From fast approaching storms
But, sanctuary from his own madness…
Found only in brashness and honor
Of the soul that roams
The Lone Wolf…
Like the undiscovered serpent of the sea…
The soaring eagle
Longs only to be free
But instinct his jailer
And hunger his need
A Lone wolf…
A vanishing vagrant into long drawn shadows…
Woodlands of a twilight sun
Pursuing fresh quarry scents
Unsullied mate she wolves natal young’s
Lone Wolf…
His lonesome irony abets in its return
As nights timber penumbras tumble forth…
A semblance of spectral sirs
Whelps of innocence from the night to the lunar lights…
Do not go unheard
Categories:
absconds, natureirony,
Form:
Rhyme
Still straying in the dark I ponder
I was just a renegade in wonder
All was wrong, and time in haste
Life was stuck and all a waste
Still fuming in my thoughts, I hurt
I was just another soul that’s lost
Now I’m in harm and tears have come
The soul will calm then peace will horn
The wind will blow as strong as storm
And thunder rolls as lion in roar
Now sun abounds with much delight
The dark absconds like fall of night
Grace now drops like rain in spring
Mercy now soars like eagles with wing
Angels rejoice like a mother with child
Spirit abides like the ocean with tide
Categories:
absconds, faith, happiness, hope, inspirationaldark,
Form:
Rhyme
(Dedication: For Tiaua M Ioane)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Here on this earth each soul must walk
From time of birth until death stalks.
Each day hurls forth with stress and strain
As we go north and face each pain.
No matter how or why or when,
Each must face now as brave we can.
Hurts and dis-ease block stumbling ways,
Yet seek true peace despite harsh days.
Cancer seeds near waiting to choke,
Let grace now clear waste that stress yokes.
When pain flings fear, be not afraid,
Let faith see clear to face each dread.
Our weary days bring out our best
If we but stay our heart's true quest.
Carcinogens abound right now
Yet contingent upon fear's plow.
Do not despair when pain and stress
Restrict sure air yet dare court zest.
Each man must face the tides of fate,
Greet time and space through sultry gates.
All more reason to live your terms
Dare face treason and dare fight germs.
Do not give up no matter what,
Fill your own cup with love and art.
Style your own poise with cheery heart,
Grace funds your choice as soul imparts.
When pain attacks your body parts,
Let faith not slack what feelings start.
Go forward now with happy feel,
Cheer heals somehow with fond goodwill.
Dare to live then despite your pains,
Survive bleak trends that surge in vain.
Be still and know sure miracle:
Your true heart shows brave spectacle.
When chips are down, fashion a smile,
You need not frown but live great style.
Life is unfair to one and all,
Do not despair but bear with gall.
Read and align with laughter fond,
Jest and wit sign, cancer absconds!
Laugh at your pain, laugh till it hurts,
Laugh once again to force out dirt.
Let peace abide to bring new light,
Keep love inside to bloom new sights.
Around the bend, see rainbow days
When soul attends true light that stays.
Till then, be brave and live each day
With love that saves the best for play.
Leon Enriquez
19 August 2014
Singapore
Categories:
absconds, blessing,
Form:
Couplet
Impervious to love or hate, trapped beneath the skin
A symptom, fluid token with the temptation of sin
For lust reacts such potently, a blazing whiter flame
Destroys the heart and soul, the carcass burnt and maimed
Hate is an emotion, a reaction, a disease
Can be cured, can be forgiven, emits when you bleed
Far end of the spectrum is love and fluff and trust
There's cutesy bunny rabbits and reams of fairy dust
Between the black and whitened points, the flying and the falls
There lies the venom, there lies you, most dangerous of all
An eclipse of uncertainty and narrowing of eyes
Analysing, scrutinizing truth between the lies
Then only speak the careful words you think they want to hear
Dispose of them as delicate sweet nothings on deaf ears
Emotions are exaggerated, bi-polar and confused
Absconds at your most vulnerable, ensures you feel abused
30 Sept 2011
Categories:
absconds, love, love, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
5 dimes rest on the cafe counter top
Left behind by a visitor who dined
Waitresses must honor pancake wishes
As they disappear into the kitchen
Swinging doors slam hard behind
The Greasy Spoon makes dishes fly
Coins are unattended at this moment
Priscilla is the locale hobo burglar girl
In need of soap & water and free coffee
At this time she requires dimes
5 would suffice to buy some time
She hides beneath a filthy scarf
Commits the deed with slippery fingers
A well practiced cough as a distraction
Absconds with fifty cents and then gets caught
Officer Flynn is the long arm of the law
Sees everything hidden in the dark
Priscilla learns a valuable lesson about free coffee
It taste much better after being arrested
Compliments of tax payers and the prison system
I would go as far as to say delicious!
Categories:
absconds, abuse, adventure, appreciation, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
The verve of sensation and stylish variety-
Moves deeper inside where the rage of my heart
Defines my displeasure, yet tears me apart
To know what remains is derisive to fantasy.
And perfection is seen as exclusive not mine,
But this, unobtainable nightmare surveys
The pangs of anxiety my frustration plays;
And thwarted still further in search for divine.
As Goddess of Dance you have tip-toed or two
Performing a solo where dances and dreams,
Prepare me an ending that waking up seems
Like death as it is, and I’m losing you too.
Visiting promise to find you're not there.
Is love's great despair just a vanishing act?
It loyally behaves but I'm dying in fact
Devoting this love to a trance anywhere.
It absconds to a Waterford crystal mirage
As Lord of the Dance in a sequel to this,
The moment I wake isn't one I should miss
Proposing to fit into her entourage.
Categories:
absconds, love, sad, dance, dance,
Form:
Verse
Death, Sin’s Wages
Written: by Tom Wright
6/16/2018
For the pleasures of sin,
God requires retribution.
Sin’s wages is death,
Without God’s absolution;
The only solace that comes,
Is from God through prayer;
Of this there’s no hour,
When we’re found unaware;
Our struggles may be many,
Perhaps even failing health;
As time pilfers our ability,
It absconds with our wealth.
Categories:
absconds, death, sin,
Form:
Lyric