The World
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This world is a home to many creatures,
big and small, and it is a pitiful place
known all to well for its unsightly...
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Categories:
escapee, beauty, world,
Form: Free verse
Episode two - No limes on Tatooine - The force awakens
...Star Wars day came to an end, spent it wisely with my best friend,
We had different paths to ascend.
We still reminisce to this day of good times had.
And to the other friend I lost connection wit...
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Categories:
escapee, absence, addiction, anxiety, drink,
Form: Rhyme
The Sun of the West
...{“IF I were to flee from this world If I were to collapse into a deep slumber, and when I emerge from that demise, I would yearn for gravity to tug me by my arms and legs and grant me my wishes. I wo...
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Categories:
escapee, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Gentle Little Lamb
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Shaking her wet ears, uncertain
How her purpose may be best served
Stagger concealed in immersion
Shown the pasture that she deserved
Frolicking safely within a flock
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Categories:
escapee, africa, analogy, animal, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
The Fish Head
...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...
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Categories:
escapee, fish, horror, sea,
Form: Free verse
Postage Due
...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...
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Categories:
escapee, break up, change, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
Out My Window
...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 ...
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Categories:
escapee, beach, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse
Out of the Nowhere
...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...
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Categories:
escapee, memory, self,
Form: Free verse
Near Bad Lauterberg, 1982
...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...
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Categories:
escapee, death,
Form: Rhyme
Escapee Running Like An Amputee
...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...
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Categories:
escapee, anxiety, death, fear, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Barrack Obama Full American
...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 ...
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Categories:
escapee, analogy, celebration, celebrity, character,
Form: Rhyme
Escape Velocity
...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...
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Categories:
escapee, 12th grade, appreciation, change,
Form: Free verse
Refusing Fear
...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...
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Categories:
escapee, allusion, anger, conflict, for
Form: Rhyme
A Light At the End of the Tunnel
..."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 ...
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Categories:
escapee, adventure, dark, fantasy, friendship
Form: Couplet
Life and Death
...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...
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Categories:
escapee, appreciation, beauty, environment, nature,
Form: Rictameter
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