Best Dodges Poems

You won't find a yard like this anymore. You'd think it would seem smaller now that I'm an adult, but it doesn't. It's still enormous, stretching far beyond the house like a grassy sea. The hills roll like the tide, dotted with patches of melting...

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Standing all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken and rustle.
Bristlecone pines ever sway slowly,
while pockets of air blush my cheeks.
Staying stalwart in meditation,
cones crinkling as puffs roll them
gently...

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Just like football I am waiting ,
on the side line,
To go up on the field,
Yes we are playing Goodooga,
Aboriginal big guys, tough as steel.

Here comes Albert racing faster,
Trotting down the bloody wing,
Gotta stop him, take him head on,
Hit his ankles, the hurting thing .

Fell him...

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What is innocence
Is it a little boy 
that pulls his toy 
fire truck down the street
And it follows him on a string
As he dodges empty beer bottles
And crack needles
Wishing his toy.
had wings
Is it a little girl who dreams of tea parties 
And dolls
And in the...

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Fractured Storm

Ghostly gloom born in brooding stillness
Cut to smithereens with shards of energy
Whirlwinds in feral fragments shrillness
Warn of wild catastrophe.

Blinding firebolts erupt to split serenity 
Nightfall dodges crackling outbursts released
Platinum tempests burst electricity 
Splintered lights race on volatility increased.

Sonic thunder bumpers, let go pent up...

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Step by step down the hall,
Head hung low, gazing down.
Healing from the fall,
hurt covered with a frown.
Others ignore him,
Drowning in the pain.
Holding you under, hope you can swim.
sitting alone in the rain.
He is an invisible boy

She dodges the remark,
Sliding past you in the hall,
Soft spoken,...

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The very softest forms 
Of martial arts
Tai chi 
It’s very similar to a dance.
You’re a dancer who dodges. 
And aikido
for when things get a little rougher. 

These seek to do no harm to a predator
To disarm with the least amount of force. This woman does...

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I heard a saying long before
Too many cooks spoil the broth sure
I think it proves right
With one another they fight
The man dodges or they little to share.

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Ninth Placement
Contest: To die for Limericks...

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Santa’s loaded sleigh,
Streaking past the Christmas moon;
Dodges bats and drones.

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Her heart swells with ecstacy
When he plays basketball in scorching heat
Dodges the ball here and there
With a sly smile dwelling everywhere

Before scoring the goal, he lifts his head
Throws a glance where she with everyone, treads
Drunk, deep blue but cosmic cross eyes
And she colours love in...

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For some reason
I really like to drive,
and ever since I was sixteen,
when I get behind the wheel
feel free and alive...
Only once had an accident
when I was seventeen,
pulling out too fast of the driveway,
into my parents car I careened,
thank God it was minor damage
and my Dad...

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River Theft – Haiku

Predator bird swoops
Bug dodges down to river
Trout bites, swallows whole...

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Walk with me along a dusty path,
Through a curtain of weeping willows,
Where water laps against the bank, 
Forget –me-not’s in the grass, like pillows.

Duckling snuggle amongst these flowers
Gently pecking at the leafy mould.
Swans walk serenely with crossed toes
Head arched in a majestic pose.

Come sit with...

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quick brown urban fox
dodges howling hounds from hell
crossing motorway...

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As the snow covered peaks of the mountain
Turn golden with the rays of the rising sun,
She races down the snow-lined pathways
Her husky on a leash, leading the run.

Her golden hair gently swept by the breeze
Her ebullient paces betray her glee,
She dodges the trees along the...

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