Best No Escape Poems

Next to the river
Two foxes stalk a rabbit
As snow is falling...

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Dark rock creatures creep
half-submerged in clouded tide. . . 
no escape from night

For Raul Moreno's Ghost Tide contest...

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Checking the lights on the dashboard when they flash and stay red:
it's the oil that needs to be changed or the engine that requires
maintenance, and in frigid temperatures who would venture outside and get frostbites?
A car is a necessity, a commodity and besides daily pleasure,...

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Time ticked frantically, I had to act drastically,
Shadows started to blur, the turbulence began to stir,
The faint ticking from a distance, dragged on and on with perseverance,

Noise, chaos, intensity, struck painful poundings to my head,
Inside of me uncontrollably- anger had begun to spread
Panic paralyzed my...

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What's wrong with you
why can't you stop
just feel better
shake it off
but don't look at me
look away
no one wants to hear
what you have to say
we don't want to know
we never see
don't have the capacity
so just say it's ok
we'll go separate ways
there's nothing to do
we can't help...

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The cold stretches of fear,
The ones that swallow you whole,
The ones that strangle your senses.

The warm sensation of blood,
The nighttime air, crisp and sharp,
The horror that warps the heart,
The dismay that tears the mind.

The blood curdling screams,
The jagged knives and bloody smiles,
The numb feeling as...

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You could run to a well armed man 
Standing tall with a gun in his hand
You could run to a ferocious beast unchained
You could take an airplane high
Or try to climb trees reaching the sky
You could dig tunnels deep
Make concrete bars so steep
Bar every door...

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The tremendously strong
grizzly bear, tooth and claw
will tear you raw.

You hear
a echoing and harrowing
roar, what's in store?

You
contemplate your fate.
Razor sharp claws that can
decapitate.

A thirst for blood
one drops enough, he'll track
you down with a snarling frown.

He cant stop now in this final
hour, he wants you fully
devoured....

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The worst part of this mystery,
when the body dies and the soul is free,
they'll be no peace in the psychic sea,
because I'll still be stuck with ME....

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mother-in-law’s tongue
Sending up new brittle shoots
barbs beyond the grave


May 23, 2021...

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Treat others how you like to
for they will treat you how you want to
be ready for absolution for it will come
I have seen it plenty of times and it is done
I know you want to believe in me
I know you want to see me
I want...

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She was torn,
Ripped from her core,
Broken and alone,
Blood streaming,
From her pores,
Her heart on the floor,
What can she do,
When everyone around her,
Leaves her feeling used,
She's so confused,
Why can't she matter,
Why is her reality,
Something they all,
Master,
She's just a slave,
Without a say,
Forced to cry alone,
Day after day,
Night after...

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Mankind. 
Such a fragile thing. 
Spending our days to find immortalised legend and fame. 
We hide ancient desires: a primal roar of fury. 
To walk in the smouldering fires of lust, murder and revenge. 
A cry which echoes in the throes of time, an insatiable...

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The thoughts in my head driving me mad
I didn't want to go bad
Cant help but to be sad
No need for a dad who was just as bad

I need a way out without having to shout or pout
No where to hideout
Just want to blackout
Maybe then I...

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This seems mine destiny.
To never hear her ethereal voice
again. But I hear only them.
The screams!— the cries! These voices I hear
while in a cold, dark slumber.

This seems mine destiny.
To be plague by malevolent
thoughts. And I fear them.
The terror!— the horror! They
seem like ghosts within the
realms...

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