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Premium Member Captured With a Fingertip
...When leaks my pen of flowing ink
I quickly staunch the flood
by blotting with my fingertip
the pool of chromatic drip

Escapees while my mind took flight
wandering across the sky
w......

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: escapees, poetry,
Form: Verse
Himalayan Trip-Trap-2
...Himalayan  Trip-Trap

They poured in,  before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their  cribs -through-hearse  stages, 
trusting like kids,  a burnished sky,  blue-white, 
a ......

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Categories: escapees, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Crannied Walls
...They cling, these city dwellers,
to crannied city walls
dusted with the exhaled indifference
of a blindly passing world.
Gasping in the fetid urban exhale
longing for the touch of errant bee.
E......

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Categories: escapees, city, life,
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member Gypsies
...Gypsies

Across a misty channel
Sensor fingers
Stretch
Through foggy, silent waves
Where two souls embrace
In expeditions of speechless discovery
Two minds stand naked,
Face to face,
With w......

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Categories: escapees, friendship, metaphor, relationship,
Form: Free verse
My Parents Were Illegal Immigrants In the United States
...In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans.

One day he and seven other prison......

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Categories: escapees, america, immigration,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Reliving Upside Down
...Reliving Upside Down
                     by Odin Roark

The Jungle Gym geodesic glistened,
Afternoon showers dripped,
Languorous droplets fell, 
Saturating sand below,
Just like then.

Benc......

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: escapees, absence, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry



Night Time
...I stay late to steal the night air to owl cry, looking on the virgin ideas to rainfalls. August augmented my hope to millennium laughter. Bell rings to escort the escapees from scandals to bloom as b......

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Categories: escapees, good night, motivation, philosophy,
Form: Personification
Secret Love Prevailed Between Two Hostile Families
...Love is so powerful between Andy and Helena after their love grew up to the climax they found themselves in a situation where no one can live without the other this has been going on secretly for so ......

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Categories: escapees, boyfriend, faith, grief,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Escapees: Accommodating Adversities
...Escapees: Accommodating Adversities

                    The subjective state of those who are well in
                    age bears a litany of ills beyond the majority                     
......

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: escapees, appreciation, solitude,
Form: Narrative
Space Suited Shells Are Cute Arent They
...A fat flat packed duck billed platypus was not on a platter. In fact it had escaped under a robe. With a robin. The robin was to be stuffed into a pigeon which was stuffed into pheasant then chicken ......

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Categories: escapees, animal, , cute,
Form:
A Sandwich Statement
...The contents of a sandwich often plot to escape. Particularly lettuces. Their leaves when chopped can climb well out of bread. So it is always wise therefore to use an adhesives such as mayonnaise to......

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Categories: escapees, appreciation,
Form:
Premium Member Captivity Or Utopian Society?
...There's no easy way to say this so I'll just be blunt.
Every evening at 8:30 I venture outdoors and I hunt.
I don't slaughter my prey. I just capture them you see,
and then I bring all my captives......

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Categories: escapees, water, fish, space, water,
Form: Rhyme
The Escapees
...The Escapees 

The goat by the wayside had sun flecked eyes 
rhombus brown pupils… and silky white wool.
But it was not alone, together with a donkey 
that had brown eyes which exuded endless 
patien......

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Categories: escapees, friendship, humorous,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Ashes To Ashes
...Standing silent,stark and black
Its eyeless sockets staring emptily
Over the London skyline
The fiery tomb of so many
Devastated,distraught and dead
Homes that became Hell
Flames roaring hungri......

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Categories: escapees, anger, death, fire, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Asylum
...It’s sunny now,
It seems so cheery.
But, oh, inside
Is so so dreary. 

The bell tower rings,
At quarter past one.
The bell ringers job
Is not done. 

It rings for death,
It rings for disea......

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Categories: escapees, body, confusion, death, friendship,
Form: Rhyme

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