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Best Escapable Poems

Below are the all-time best Escapable poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of escapable poems written by PoetrySoup members


Building a Bridge
If I walk alone through a thousand days, 
each hour I shall try to make peace 
with my past, with my battles, my loss and...

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Categories: escapable, anxiety, feelings, hope, peace,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Hatred
Harbours quick repugnance and self explosive memories
Anger heats up the heart, burning any string of positive emotions, but
Torture is not escapable by the body covering...

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Categories: escapable, evil, hate,
Form: Acrostic
Vain Depths Beneath a New Road
A precipice not of change but of acknowledgement
a chasm of which seemed bottomless and timeless to one's fall
Sometimes a burden, trapped beneath this fallen treant.
Finding...

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Categories: escapable, vanity,
Form: Free verse
Febrile Night
I awoke
in the febrile night again,
half dazed
from my conviction 
of your certainty,
contorted
by the pounding of 4 am, 
and still restless
with vestigial sleep.
My sense for rain
laps...

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Categories: escapable, loss
Form: Free verse
Definition
Chin up, smile everything will be alright, they say.

Stop crying, fix your makeup, it’s not ok to be sad they say.

Cover your shoulders, stand up...

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Categories: escapable, anxiety, care, change, desire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



A Malady
The proverbial all pervading calm and inner peace,
Stability is what we choose to call it- to earn greens,
To eat them, to share it or to...

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Categories: escapable, angst, introspection, life, loss,
Form: Verse
Definition
Chin up, smile everything will be alright, they say.

Stop crying, fix your makeup, it’s not ok to be sad they say.

Cover your shoulders, stand up...

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Categories: escapable, angst, anxiety, corruption, dream,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Woman Without Rib
My mother told me
That love is perishable
If it stands on the wrong
Rib 
she said
A woman without
A rib is a strong wrong
Empire
She told me that
Beauty is...

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Categories: escapable, courage, creation, cute love,
Form: Didactic
Processus De Qualia
whosoever finds themselves muttering 
the process of their very own struggle “to be”
left in the woods for dogs,
face down in a gutter like poe &
drowning...

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Categories: escapable, life, integrity, , western,
Form: Free verse
Nightmares
My nightmares
Aren't escapable
I'm in capable
To make this pain go away
To destroy my misery from my head
They can't be explained
Soon I might go insane
Thinking my dreams...

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Categories: escapable, art, death, imagination, loss,
Form: I do not know?
Dark Misery
Dark misery
how you wrap my heart 
like a black cat around the leg

waking world thrust back into dream
vaccume un-escapable
i fall backwards
into your dark embace

slowly i...

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Categories: escapable, dark, depression, feelings, love,
Form: I do not know?
Priest Would Enable Us To Be Capable
Priest Would Enable Us To Be Capable

We knew what priest would do is enable,
His parish to have ability to be capable,
By him captured, 
Then enraptured;
From...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: escapable, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs