Best Narrow Escape Poems

A gentleman’s intentions of amour applied with great finesse
A lesser dame would waver and surely acquiesce

Love designs in the air as ancient as Romeo
In the...

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In the coffee shop
A mistimed twist
By the barista
Caused a hissing
Coffee jet to
Ballista towards
My sister and I
Worried it would
Hit her wrist and
Give her a blister,
But fortunately
It...

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NARROW ESCAPE
                
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From a narrow escape, God grants light
For blissful freedom* midst faith brace
Against hell’s wrath due to sin-blight
Toward eternal life of grace.

Secured along compassion’s reign
From a...

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The date
July Twenty Eight
The year, 1914
The War which we feared 
It began, something we could not foresee
This date, still haunters me
To this very day
Those bewailing...

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Dear trafficker,I am on the run
With face emitting fear
Worn in clothe surged into rag
By the scissors of rape
linen scars
With the screech from angry nails;
narrow escape.

Do...

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I am still counting my blessings bestowed 
To me from God above, naming them one 
By one though He still surprises me each day in...

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Poet:  Ken Jordan
Poem:  Matador
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan
written:  October/2015

Bravely 
he
poses

before
the
gates 

of
sudden death -

Poised
to
face 

his
most

formidable 
foe -

He's
the Toreros,

fearless

with 
bullfighting 

etched  

way down
in...

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It was 6.15, in the morning, 
I was in a deep sleep, 
The rising sun pierced the thatched roof and made my skin burn,
I wrapped...

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i feel the sky is falling
I feel the strong breeze blowing
Mind says 'stand for something'
Lest I ,die in the morning

Tears roll down my eyes
Every time...

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The poet Basho, whose name is acclaimed
worldwide for haiku esteemed,
wrote myriad works for their greatness famed
and frequently nature themed.

Japan in the sixteen hundreds was where
his...

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Our Earth is round,
With lots of bound.
People always think for their profit,
Which enhances their greed and deny them to be greet.
Environment of politics is everywhere,
Innocence...

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The faded afterglow of a life passing through mid-age is also wrapped with an expected pattern of probable uncertainties. The moments that can ignite true...

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(alternately titled...
whoops rites of spring
prematurely ejaculated).

This livingsocial mortal opposes
rigor mortis deadened waiver!

Great slabs of ice thrust
from Perkiomen River
competing forces did deliver
contraction and expansion
giving yours truly,

a...

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Dangerous Encounter 
It was a June Saturday after dinner I walked along the docks 
and noticed a man I knew putting crates of beer on...

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