Short Absconding Poems

daydreams
absorbing me
dancing throughout
absconding the real world 
today

© November 14, 2011
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen...

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sullen death-bell tolls
for my own absconding soul
no wailing required
as my skirmishing-days past
my ultimate doom is close...

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Five fingers of joy
slyly, coyly burgles; he's
absconding with koi.
As you like it, as you wish;
carpe carpum: seize the fish!


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POTD 0/28/2022
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A bride-to-be I stood lone
Surrounded by uncles and aunts
Flowers in every nook
But alas no groom

Hands decorated with love
Red dress ironed and perfumed
All expectantly await
But where is the groom?...

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Thus
They flee
Absconding
In guiltless flight
On fattened feathers
A pointed arrowhead
Guided by some hidden force
Returning to their beginnings
Arcing slowly over icy peaks
Circling the history of their valley...

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Snapping those green beans, hear them pop
Hear my whimpering flop.
Multiplying

In the bucket,maybe could swap
Beans for good coffee stop
I am absconding

In secret I'll go to Whistle Stop
Hidden all from view shop
Green beans done now slurping...

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Able to take change 
in smaller increments …
the total overwhelms

The pieces digested
in tiny fragments
absconding from the realm

— Breaking it down —
 taming the maelstrom 
 hail turns into rain

The whole reemerging 
inside my becoming
 transforming me again

(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)
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belief is the end 
of your awareness
inching snails shrivel
mango groves pregnant
awareness is foolish perfect
mystery of trinity worshiped
black or white blood
is red and warm
today is the 
beginning of to
morrow and the
end of yesterday
the end
absconding thoughts
i am forty my
mother
confessed...

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Had 6 she did. One at a time. 
Worried about one…most of the time. 
One had their own set of rules too. 
Early on realized school was a bore.
Overnight a scouting uniform turned into a wetsuit.
It takes much longer to turn a wrench into a paintbrush.
Seems absconding normalcy is fun to do and watch.
A mother’s bewilderment turns to understanding....

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A Fugitive

                                          Fugitive
                                  wandering, nomadic
                          escaping, eluding, absconding
                       frightened alone seeking sanctuary
                                          Refugee


							
Written by Jill for Julia Ward’s
Fugitive contest, any form...

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You such as tired horses! 
Running between the spirit of trees; 
Then absconding - such as four Doves 
To distant clouds  

You Oh 'Orville’s' mountains 
As you are on the ground, 
Glorified in heaven! 
  
And you O Plains 
Where the trees bunched  
Like doves, cooing with songs 
And brighten like a pebble into brook 
 
You O 'Elijah' plains  
You a witness ,never know what war is!
And what the mystery of death!...

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Falling darkness of feigning eyes
Upon orbs of virtue they arise,
Absconding the feigned
The righteous, reigned,

Palliative now malice
Grief now crystallized, callous,
Empowering construction
Of honor’s destruction,

The malicious address
O, their fallacy shall never impress, 
Spirit of dishonor arrays
Their plague, fallacy displayed,

The truthful now berate
O, their spirit of faith,
Emerging nobility
Of awakening ability…...

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A lifetime we spent as one, in all ways.
You were my celestial focus.
All rays of light in your direction.

Unbeknownst to me
your fire burned elsewhere,
alit to all the world
but shielded from me.

Was I but a mat
for which you to trod
nonchalantly upon my heart?
There you left a gaping wound.

Swiftly you exited
with your own intentions.
Absconding with my heart,
future and sanity.

All to be cast aside in a ditch
along side the road of your life
like yesterday's litter....

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