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Dodging Poems - Poems about Dodging


Dodging Lighting and Riding Thunder
He’s judged and condemned to take the saddle, yet, still fighting without surrender, while we slip the bit between his jaws. This, and ducking feet in dubble time while lashing the gear to his back, dodging lightning while riding Thunder. A saddle placed on a throne and strapped to a rocket. He fights, he chokes, and rolls his eyes. Who would...

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Categories: dodging, animal,
Form: Free verse
Dodging the Bullet
When death came ‘a calling,’ again thus denied The future remortgaged —payment applied (Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)...

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Categories: dodging, death, time,
Form: Rhyme



Draft Dodging Was Trump's Duty
Trump has been a really beauty; Draft dodging has been his duty; A real pest; Women molest; Cake that is a real tooty fruity. Jim Horn...

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Categories: dodging, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Tax Dodging
When tax is due make sure that you pay Scarface didn't and got put away For the feds they got wise Took Capone by surprise Alcatraz he went for a long stay. So the moral of this limerick rhyme Tax dodging is a serious crime If you love prison life And you wont miss your wife Be prepared you'll go down for some...

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Categories: dodging, corruption, prison,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dodging Bullets and Missiles Is Success
We all hear about the habits of successful people, My habits are not the same. Successful people, whatever that means, Their habits seem kind of tame. I don’t read a lot, nor organize my year, Nor ever get up bright and chirpy. I enjoy writing my thoughts, living spontaneously, Then waking up feeling blurry. I dance in elevators, touch hot plates, And practice arguments...

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Categories: dodging, fun, happy, joy, nice,
Form: Rhyme



Dodging Raindrops
In the eye of the storm brave hearts embrace Fears stirring confusion in her turbulence We recollect our mangled existence To move forward with growing resilience In her eye, the look of clarity Safe in her blink of surety In the distance hurricane winds Twirl and twist, play games with our minds In the face of such overbearing power The vortex rising...

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Categories: dodging, life, pain, rain, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dodging Hate's Siren-Shriek
Dodging Hate’s Siren-Shriek by Odin Roark He had survived Six months believed to have made him a man. Today, He only wanted his mother. Today, Time was running slow, Slower, Stopping, Begging. Such hopeful beginnings, Such bestial endings, Caked fingers bear blood, Water too precious...

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Categories: dodging, philosophy, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Dodging Shadows
Our love entices us to risk the silhouettes of those we once held dear Our memories chide us to hold back our desires from the one's now so near Our passion keeps us dodging those shadows and feeding that which we fear...

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Categories: dodging, grief, loss, love,
Form: Verse
Dodging the Shoe
Dodging the Shoe By Elton Camp The flying shoe, Hillary didn’t faze Nor did justifiable indignation blaze Calmly and quickly she did duck The attacker was then out of luck Her comeback was right on line Handling the situation just fine To a public figure, gross disrespect From some there’s none else to expect Her accomplishment unable to minimize So resorting to violence is no surprise May...

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Categories: dodging, angst,
Form: Rhyme

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