Escapee Poems - Poems about Escapee

...Once, this hollow in a washed up fish head held an eye. Now it's just a skull, an escapee from a crab pot where it hung as bait to attract a wandering claw. I cradle it in my hands, its fle......Read the rest...

...Chill confines a diary of absence as September keyholes a papered wall. A smirk tears a face--escapee silence --styles wall with nothingness, dead ends AWOL. A bottle of spent wealt......Read the rest...

...Out of my beachside window I see the dawn, red each morn. The seascape a blue-white scene draped, Upon the green and yellow of the landscape, Of vegetation and ocean adorned by belt of sand, By ......Read the rest...

...I was distracted and could no longer recall the thought that had just occupied my mind. There was only the pleasant afterglow of whatever it was, a sweet residue lingering in the place wh......Read the rest...

...It was the sign that stopped us And then we saw the stone Dedicated to an escapee Who had died there alone. We read the inscription All the time being aware Guards in the tower watched Every......Read the rest...

...We heard of the ambush And we remembered George Bush: A Radio-Announced Ambush And we made for some bush, The man in my front continually push … One hell of a Lazing Runner While my heart was......Read the rest...

...I have seen the black face of his Kenyan father With whom he didn’t go farther: an absolutely Black Papa Describing not the Diaspora Rappa, His loudest trumpets for Jomo, As Barak’s nearly were ......Read the rest...

...Oh, you swamp me with charm - get out of my head. There’s something about you - a warmth - like the comfort of home - that pulls at me. I study your landscape of attractive surfaces like a star c......Read the rest...

...Pressed into cavity, wardrobe holds captive Constrained where space is a premium Love lodged squashes logic, lungs ravaged Quicksand scenarios draw a dreamer in Denigrated to respondee in hi......Read the rest...

..."What a fine day for a picnic," my friends all said, In the dog days of summer, with the hot sun overhead. We would all go for a swim, and then have a fine lunch, And would return refreshed and ......Read the rest...

...A leaf, floating downwards, comes to rest upon grass. Escapee cutting off the bonds, unaware of its impending demise; the umbilical cord severed, now page-pressed memory; dried skin......Read the rest...

...As time goes by, the anguish shall abate. To double back my trail, to hide, to wait for an unwelcome love to go away. Long distances can quench the wanderlust, but lust of wonder. Wonder is a m......Read the rest...

...Potato Mountain I will arrive an habitual escapee from the rabbit warrens of central planners By ferreting north in search of breaks in the maze rifts in the grid I will follow a stre......Read the rest...

...Most times strangers react the way you present yourself to them At first they may a bit leery wondering where you're coming from but once they realize you are absolutely har......Read the rest...

...It's all there remains of their faces and names in the sanguinous pull of the Ocean. And ever abides the slow, ugly tides to the ruin of the ordinary people. But do they......Read the rest...