Best Fled Poems

Life Fled As I Sought Yet Another Day,
( verses born from the illusion of immortality, 1977) 
Part One

As I went beyond that black veil,
Having trod this earth and seen hell,
I look back while daring to say,
" Life fled as I sought yet another day."
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He fled the gazes of his brood --
They cut his soul with faces
sharp from lack of food.
Although their mouths
Voiced no complaint,
Their steady, unaccusing stares
Were so much more than he could bear --
This hero of two foreign wars.
He cowers now in alleyways
(And drinks his courage from...

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Tragic, When Innocence Was Lost And Love Fled
(Youth, Dreams And Reality Series) poem number 1)

 
Like lake June swans once so were she and I
Passionate romance money cannot buy
Coupled and in heart's fervor we stood
Giving into our fever all we could
She the flighted arrow, I...

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Where has the romance gone
  moonlit nights kissing 'til dawn
Where fled the tenderness
  from our love once so strong

Where are the conversations
  that used to matter so much
Where are the magic moments
  when our fingertips touched

Where are the sparks that flew
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My
heart,
my soul, 
lie empty
since your love has fled.
Your gentle laughter haunts my mind.
Those brown eyes so soft and warm now shine for another.
Long auburn hair framed your beautiful face, now shared with someone else in loves sweet embrace.






Written 09/03/2015
for Rob Carmack's contest "Fibonacci"
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She was running for her life
feeling his hot breath and his
clutching at her clothes. Crashing
through the trees and thick undergrowth.
Stumbling, still feeling him getting closer
She gave a muffled scream as tumbling over 
and over she fell down a steep embankment.
Lying there dazed a tongue started...

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“The ribbon is cut
 The die is cast
 The cement is dry
 Yet nothing lasts
 The brazen rewarded
 The hero a fool
 All reason outdated
 New fury the tool”

A journey presented
Your ship to go far
With doldrums eclipsed
By the light of new stars
The lands will seem...

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The voice which my throat hurled, I don’t know what happened to it.
Whether the sky swallowed it or it changed into a bird and flew away.

But my fancy keeps floating like a boat around the islands of flowers,
The azure continents of the skies and, the...

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Mildred fled when Joe asked her if she
would let him see 'below' for a fee. 
As she shot to a run
though, thread caught and unspun...
So instead, Joe got showed it for free!...

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She Fled Into A Dark Oblivion On The Rise

She fled into a dark oblivion on the rise
mad race into its dark devil's eyes.
Just another fix, her body had its needs
who cares if everything else bleeds?

Needle and a spoon - O' what a damn song
clown in...

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She said:  You were my very first
I loved you under the stars and before the sun

He Said:  It was without choice, that day I fled
two faces of sadness, two hearts misread.

She said:  It seemed a dream that very first night
I was afraid...

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Youth Fled Away, Time Has Shifted

Youth fled away, time has shifted
that cumbersome dark veil lifted
With more Light, my eyes can now see
that lost lad hiding within me.

Years bring wisdom if one lets it
so pay heed, do not forget it
Temptation says, let us do that
for risking...

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The closer you get
The more they seem to move
As their shapes become giant
And your hopes then behoove
Now anchored offshore
With the dinghy in place
You can see them more clearly
Each shape and each face
Like monolithic Gods
They reign high on the hill
Looking down on who enter
With a warning...

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The ribbon is cut
The die is cast
The cement is dry
Yet nothing lasts
The brazen rewarded
The hero a fool
All reason outdated
New fury the tool

A journey presented
Your ship to go far
With doldrums eclipsed
By the light of new stars
The lands will seem foreign
The people most strange
But they’ll smile as...

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Your children are dead.
Go now and lay down your head.
They've fled, it is said.

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