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Dodging Poems

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

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)

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

Categories: dodging, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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

Categories: dodging, corruption, prison,
Form: Limerick

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

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

Categories: dodging, life, pain, rain, storm,
Form: Rhyme

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

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

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

Categories: dodging, angst,
Form: Rhyme