Best Escapists Poems
Below are the all-time best Escapists poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of escapists poems written by PoetrySoup members
The EscapistsThe night has bobbed away….the stereo blasting
Through the moon roof as the highway markers
Roared by….the night has bobbed away….like
Sinatra’s undercover meetings with the makers
….nobody heard...
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Categories:
escapists, adventurenight, night,
Form:
Narrative
Escape Into RealityESCAPE INTO REALITY
Escapists---fantasizing about worthless things
Well trained in our worldly ways and feelings
Struggling to visualize our predestined callings
Escapists—fantasizing about worthless things
Reality-- disregarding Eternal majestic dwellings
Pursuing...
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Categories:
escapists, introspection, parody, perspective,
Form:
Monorhyme
One Tiny Red BalloonOver by the corner the bandstand plays on
next to the cotton candy wagon and the clown
Its a circus act full of people and...
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Categories:
escapists, addiction, anxiety, future,
Form:
Quatrain
My Christmas Gift 2022333
3 thirds of Me
1 ounce of Tea
The EACE that starts with P
My Christmas Gift 2022
was one I didn't expect
Though I've prayed for it often...
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Categories:
escapists, abuse, angst, appreciation, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Lenity In the SlumsShe lit candles
in her empty kitchen.
Burnt air disappears
through the back door.
Pale and wild,
brittle street witch,
shy, wide eyes.
Her mind like a weathered epitaph,
left alone in it's...
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Categories:
escapists, imagination, urban, visionary,
Form:
Imagism
Elevator To My Subconscious Part 2How about the woman!
His voice suddenly full of venom
You know the one I speak of
Let's commence her to squealin
It's just a dream you know
You are...
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Categories:
escapists, introspection, dream, dream, me,
Form:
Free verse
Reentry PrioritiesI find imprisoning parallels
between early Nazi Germany
and early Roaring Trumpian 20s USA,
between fascist and fake propaganda,
between judicial patriarchal-privileged racist stockpiling,
between CEOs living above our democratically...
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Categories:
escapists, analogy, freedom, hate, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Village PoliticsIn U.S. municipalities
we have Survivalists
and Thrivalists,
Revivalists
and Liberated Rapturists,
AggressiveRisk Addicts
and MultiCultural WinWin Escapists
into monoculturing WinLose Cocoon Closets.
Survivalist addicts
often show up at Town Council
and School Board meetings
fueled...
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Categories:
escapists, drug, green, hair, health,
Form:
Free verse
Church Camp: Part Iiinevitably, one night a few of the forced occupants decided that they had had enough &
took it upon themselves to try & leave the church...
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Categories:
escapists, life,
Form:
Free verse
A Day To ForgetA day to forget
It was a rotten day from the start, got up late
feeling as if he had not slept at all and the night...
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Categories:
escapists, abuse, betrayal, dark,
Form:
Blank verse
An Escapist Man DreamsThink of a place on Earth’s long frozen pole
Where polar seas don a crisp snow-white dress,
What if a warm sea roars— man’s karmic dole...
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Categories:
escapists, dream, environment, men, satire,
Form:
Quatrain
Ambedo trancehere we go again
conjuring fear demons
from which to seek reprieve
we then manifest gods and angels
assigning imaginary attributes
to the opposing polarities
in this lucid dream
as...
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Categories:
escapists, introspection,
Form:
Didactic