Escape Study

A study on Escape using Cinquain form. 1st stanza: modern, 2nd: Root, 3rd: reference

Escape

Avoid, Elude

Break, Run, Bolt

Dream, Relief, Create, Scene

Free 

caput

bha, leid

bherg, ergh, bolt,

der, leguh, ker, scene

prai

In desperation a man grasped by the cape might slip out of it. (Mark 14: 51-52) {1st line of poem}

Jehovah showed only his back side to Moses, lest the full vision blind him. (Exodus 33: 20) {2nd}

“What is the use of running if you are on the wrong road?” ~Sir William G. Benham (b. 1859){3rd}

Solomon:

Singing his love, the holy spouse of Christ,

Like she were some light-skirt of the East.

~Bishop Hall, in his Satires (1597) Speaking of the Biblical Song of Songs. {4th}

Prai: beloved, hence precious; hence also at peace with, allowed to do as one pleases; thus applied to a free member of the community, as opposed to a slave. {5th}

All the above references are taken from The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, By Joseph T. Shipley copyright 1984

Author's Note

This is really just a personal study for myself; I am not feeling particularly creative today, yet want to stay disciplined to write at least once a day. I started with a simple practice in form (cinquain) and then became interested in the root of each word. (as I felt the poem itself a bit boring) So I pulled out a reference book I have on origins and cross referenced selected words from the poem below. Again this is simply for my own curiosity; posted for my own discipline. Any review is welcomed, but not necessary.

~peace, Todd