Friday, January 3, 2003

Escape Plan Comments

Rating: 3.1

I examine
my skin

searching for
...
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Bill Knott
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Sylvia Frances Chan 24 December 2021

5 Stars full for this very thought-provoking poem. That the poet might be dying so true.

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Rose Marie Juan-austin 22 December 2021

A thought provoking poem expressed in just minimal lines.

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Chinedu Dike 22 December 2021

Short and insightful lines..............

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Mahtab Bangalee 02 October 2019

inside insider of the self; an escape of the earning self!

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Edward Kofi Louis 02 October 2019

Over it! ! ! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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I think he was looking for a way to free his soul from a suffering body.But his poem has wry and sensitive humor to it..I'm sorry he's gone since he is my poet discovery for today..rest in peace and thank you for your poetry..

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Dominic Windram 02 October 2019

I wholeheartedly agree with your perceptive comments about this intriguing poem Lorraine. I think it has to be considered in its context of suffering.

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M Asim Nehal 26 December 2016

Short and brilliant....10

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Walterrean Salley 29 November 2016

(Escape Plan by Bill Knott.) **What a poem. Poet trapped in a suffering body, wanting a way out. Perhaps a miracle. Or to awaken to find it a bad dream, etc. Many are imprisoned by life’s circumstances. And oh, the pain of enduring- bearing the unbearable.

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Kim Barney 15 May 2015

John, you're too late with your comment directed at Bill. He died in 2014, or so says PH. You say the message is suicide. I interpreted it differently. I thought maybe he was suffering from some kind of terminal illness such as cancer, and knew he was dying, but hoping to find a way out.

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John Richter 29 May 2015

Thanks Kim... I see that now. But Escape Plan indicates a willing exit to me, not one waited for.... But I like your vision as well.

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John Richter 15 May 2015

The message is obviously suicide.... The title is ESCAPE PLAN... I can't think of any more compelling - or more strongly fused emotions than those surrounding suicide - or that such desire to leave life could be greater than life itself... I think there is incredible beauty in human emotion KC, all human emotion. Even those that I have never felt myself... but intently those I have... Artists are incredibly and overwhelmingly subject to depression.... Awesome poem Bill...

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K.c. Ford 15 May 2015

Get real Ramesh. Where is the beauty in twelve words expressing nothing?

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Ramesh Rai 19 December 2014

Twelve words. Beautiful expression.

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