ketchup bottle song
...The refrigerator opened by itself tonight
Weird because I had closed it good and tight
Ketchup bottle fell out to dance along the floor
We watched, expecting a few escapees more
Maybe mustard a...
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Categories:
escapees, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Traffic
...In the hazy air, the camera drone
followed the stagnant river of traffic,
telegraphing images to control.
The thermals from the searing hot pavement
fighting with the machine’s languid progress
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Categories:
escapees, summer,
Form: Free verse
Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
...[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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The Terror Bugs pursued them through the skies toward the river
Cody flew just fast enough but still...
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Categories:
escapees, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Lets Tango
..."Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.
I hope you dance" ~~ Mark Daniel Sanders / Tia M. Sillers ~~
Superseded thought wa...
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Categories:
escapees, dance,
Form: Quatrain
Disappointment
...Disappointment
I read about made people escape the crazy world.
The civilization we call modern life by hiding in a hidden little town in Laos
A place Where they can be irrational on their term...
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Categories:
escapees, absence, confidence, discrimination,
Form: Blank verse
The Sheltering - Ifl
...Owl eyes break as dimming light worms about,
Hollow clap surrenders a sparked ribboning,
Escapees breakout from their misty cells,
Wakes of earthen prints puddling,
Harbored ills bade...
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Categories:
escapees, character, emotions, encouraging, extended
Form: Free verse
Escapees: Accommodating Adversities
...Escapees: Accommodating Adversities
The subjective state of those who are well in
age bears a litany of ills beyond the majority
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Categories:
escapees, appreciation, solitude,
Form: Narrative
S Bahn
...(the overhead railway in Berlin with a stop either side the Wall, one in the East, one the West, to be ridden with caution.)
I never took the S Bahn
you could end up on the other side
if you mi...
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Categories:
escapees, memory, military,
Form: Rhyme
Forgiveness
...If it were to be foe, I could bear it; He was my friend;
Why should he betray me? In public that too; at the end;
I kept him aside like a bone separated from meat,
Avoided the rarest of places whe...
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Categories:
escapees, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
The Hood
...The close is a cul-de-sac, lots have dead-ended here.
It's relatively peaceful if you have no living relatives.
Plastic flamingos sometimes stray onto front yards
escapees from inflatable pools no...
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Categories:
escapees, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gypsy Kaleidoscope
...Gypsy Kaleidoscope
Mystic, mystical, magic gypsy
Spins a halcyon kaleidoscope on white horizon’s
Calypsos leaping in crystal canticles
Erases darkness of the neon midnight sun.
In polar sols...
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Categories:
escapees, color, light, night,
Form: Free verse
Nowhere In Sight
...On a grassy verge above the surging rill
she stood fair haired and proud,
three leaf clover substrate at her toes.
Clutching saline bouquets I had plucked
from my neighbours walk-in green house...
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Categories:
escapees, adventure, analogy, appreciation, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Vagaries
...The vagaries are flying today.
Those gossima-winged insubstantial escapees
related by birth to thoughts as yet unformed.
I sense them circling, see their flights
they glitter and dim as f...
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Categories:
escapees, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Kansas Tornado
...No escapees from this tornado
July and August so busy
Disheveled yards and faces
Trampolines blown over
Wind chimes blown to bits
Tearing things up
Ominous
Kansas
Wind...
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Categories:
escapees, natural disasters,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Gypsies
...Gypsies
Across a misty channel
Sensor fingers
Stretch
Through foggy, silent waves
Where two souls embrace
In expeditions of speechless discovery
Two minds stand naked,
Face to face,
With w...
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Categories:
escapees, friendship, metaphor, relationship,
Form: Free verse
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