Best Escalates Poems
Below are the all-time best Escalates poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of escalates poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...
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Categories:
escalates, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Make Love To Me In That Ancient PlaceThe Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble...
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Categories:
escalates, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form:
Epic
Escalating the Muse
"Escalating the Muse"
Written on the body
passive complacence
stretches sharp ink
etched pain in the soul
then real beauty
from the
Book of Truth,
a page moored
in transparent...
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Categories:
escalates, muse, truth, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Tears When My Fingers Hurt - a Collaboration With James SwartzWhen my fingers hurt
the pain binds and forms
at the base of my greatest fear
I never knew fear
Until it knocked on my door
So fierce...
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Categories:
escalates, anxiety, fear,
Form:
Free verse
Heart's SlumberI'm a sinister shell,
lost in bygone
deepwaters of
gravity-less
cerulean tears,
that saturate
molten sundrops,
falling from
zinc-plated skies,
as heliophilic snow,
melts frosted
memories in...
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Categories:
escalates, angst, deep, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Awake Sweet Stolen Dream "Awake Sweet Stolen Dream"
I wandered outside my conscious element of thought
drifting into wonderlust of dreamland sequences like photographs
as...
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Categories:
escalates, love, heart, sweet, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
My Confined MindUntamed self control my own worst enemy I can be
I can not be the poison and the remedy
The voices I hear are not in my...
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Categories:
escalates, character, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
No Set FutureAs I pass through time
in my physical vessel
I connect the rhymes,
balancing them on my mind's trestle.
My consciousness detaches
from emotion and commotion
and intricately latches
onto an outstanding,...
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Categories:
escalates, inspirational, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Seduced By Poseidon's DaughterAs rippling horizon
douses fiery orb,
you are at your
most alluring.
Ethereal,
diaphanous limbs
stretch out,
reach for me,
beckon to me.
Barely audible murmurs,
laced with
forbidden promises,
cross the distance
between us.
Whispers become
more insistent,
more urgent,
more...
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Categories:
escalates, heartbreak, lust, metaphor, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Consider ThenNews flash
Paris attacks;
Violence strikes
~~~~~~~~~
Innocent deaths
Terror unveils;
Death delivers
~~~~~~~~~
Madness conspires
Human debris;
Bigotry unleashed
~~~~~~~~~
Evil men scheme
Distorted agendas;
Self-destruct roams
~~~~~~~~~
Good people die
Bloodbath escalates;
Terror unleashed
~~~~~~~~~
Signs of our times
Deceptive turbulence;
Mortal casualties
~~~~~~~~~
Moods swayed
Fear catapults;
Distorted...
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Categories:
escalates, change,
Form:
Haiku
MayhemWorld abandonment
vanity infests
greed escalates
charity nullified
Competitive paradise
prices uncontrollable
hunger staggering
debt maximized
Honest lost
integrity futile
words misconstrued
greed rapid
Equality vanished
pensions minute
labor intensified
jobs down sized
World absorbed
humans consumed
profits soar
mortgages abandoned
World immobilized
composure...
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Categories:
escalates, on work and working
Form:
Free verse
Tears When My Fingers Hurt- a Collaboration By Akkina Downing and James SwartzWhen my fingers hurt
the pain binds and forms
at the base of my greatest fear
I never knew fear
Until it knocked on my door
So fierce...
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Categories:
escalates, fear, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Spreading HappinessSend the world a message with a smile,
Put on your happy face, cheer up, and
Remember to laugh once in a while.
Experience this moment...
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Categories:
escalates, anxiety, culture, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Acrostic
Valentine's Day CynicThe usual tat overflows on the shelves
Such items we’d never buy for ourselves
Chocolate hearts wrapped in shiny red plastic
At a seven pounds each the prices...
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Categories:
escalates, humorous, money, satire, valentines
Form:
Rhyme
Spring FlowersTulip heads mingle with paper whites, floral party escalates.
An Guests bunnies and squirrel’s join the celebration.
Beneath the dogwoods, dandelion heads awake.
...
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Categories:
escalates, beauty, flower, garden, poems,
Form:
Sijo