Long Escapees Poems

[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 he felt a shiver
“Any slower and we’ll stall...

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In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans.

One day he and seven...

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Escapees: Accommodating Adversities

                    The subjective state of those who are well in
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A fat flat packed duck billed platypus was not on a platter. In fact it had escaped under a robe. With a robin. The robin was to be stuffed into a pigeon which was stuffed...

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Himalayan  Trip-Trap

They poured in,  before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their  cribs -through-hearse  stages, 
trusting like kids,  a burnished sky,  blue-white, 
a cocktail of the wrong...

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Love is so powerful between Andy and Helena after their love grew up to the climax they found themselves in a situation where no one can live without the other this has been going on...

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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 wordless words
Each knowing the inner rhyme 
Of another soul –
Intimate outside skin and limbs.

Across the...

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There's no easy way to say this so I'll just be blunt.
Every evening at 8:30 I venture outdoors and I hunt.
I don't slaughter my prey. I just capture them you see,
and then I bring all...

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Reliving Upside Down
                     by Odin Roark

The Jungle Gym geodesic glistened,
Afternoon showers dripped,
Languorous droplets fell, 
Saturating...

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Alexander Pearce, you won’t know the name 
And you’ll gag when you find out his claim to fame
He was sent to Australia for steeling some shoes
According to Ireland’s 1819 crime news
Ended up in Port Author...

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"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...

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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...

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I stay late to steal the night air to owl cry, looking on the virgin ideas to rainfalls. August augmented my hope to millennium laughter. Bell rings to escort the escapees from scandals to bloom...

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Ghostly giblets granting grinning gibbons grapefruit. But grapes were busy running down the road. Away they shouted away away. And at great speed they went down the roads. Escaping the giblets who cried out in...

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Standing silent,stark and black
Its eyeless sockets staring emptily
Over the London skyline
The fiery tomb of so many
Devastated,distraught and dead
Homes that became Hell
Flames roaring hungrily upwards
To devour figures silhouetted  at windows
Their outlines sharply etched
In the minds...

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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.
Woman of resplendent peerage cast...

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(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...

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The contents of a sandwich often plot to escape. Particularly lettuces. Their leaves when chopped can climb well out of bread. So it is always wise therefore to use an adhesives such as mayonnaise to...

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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 solstice fireworks of ruby throated flaming vermilion
Solar windstorms paint an artic canvass in...

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The Escapees 

The goat by the wayside had sun flecked eyes 
rhombus brown pupils… and silky white wool.
But it was not alone, together with a donkey 
that had brown eyes which exuded endless 
patience, and...

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Midnight. This white ward
drifts softly through chalked moonbeams
shifting walls argent to cream,
sifting sterile halls.
Full moon fingers reach within
touching each silvered sheet-shroud.

Jaded nurses drowse...
vials drip crystalline hope
elixirs into sick veins,
bedside water jugs
shimmer with ivory pearls;
glimmer-gentle light...

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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 terms 
Sleep when...

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It’s sunny now,
It seems so cheery.
But, oh, inside
Is so so dreary. 

The bell tower rings,
At quarter past one.
The bell ringers job
Is not done. 

It rings for death,
It rings for disease, 
It rings for time.
It rings...

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A sign on the side of the highway
Provoked my eyes to pop,
‘Cause what it said was “Prison near,
So kindly do not stop.”

Of course, we kept on driving
But man, it made me think
And wonder just how...

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When leaks my pen of flowing ink
I quickly staunch the flood
by blotting with my fingertip
the pool of chromatic drip

Escapees while my mind took flight
wandering across the sky
writing in script of a damsel's plight
until the globules...

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