Best Runaway Poems

An outdoor wedding, no sign of rain
The bride’s gown had a 10-foot train
     Crossing the lawn to her bequeathed
     Fido snatched the train in his teeth
And Pop watched eight grand go down the drain...

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Whispers in the darkness
Keep her sleep away
Tormented by her fear
She awaits the coming day

The dealers and the hustlers
Her only companionship
She never thought it would be like this
When she started on this trip

The allies and the doorways
Her shelter from the rain
She only has to take the...

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Would you pack up and run away with me if I were to ask you to today?
Would you throw aside all the past? The turbulence we shared? Would you forget the screaming matches and remember what we shared?

If I dream of this; is there a...

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The slap of sneakers on concrete,
Fill my ears with hollow sound;
Like my heart it has a beat,
Steady thumps against the ground.
My eyes are wide, to take in any light,
But not many shine in the dark.
I couldnt stand another fight,
Another sharp and mean-cutting remark.
I stop to...

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At twelve years old
She sits in the cold
Engulfed by the dark
Sitting on an old tree trunk
By the edge of the silent river

From far she can hear the ceremonial celebrations
Drums beat with such elevation
The women sing in jovial spirits
The kids play and they all dance
Twenty fires...

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RUNAWAY BRIDE

Down the ailse she walks
Bouquet in her hand smile on her face
To the alter where her love awaits
Her heart so pure and true
Her friends and family all in view

Her veil hides her face and tears
Her body hidden by the dress she wears
White the colour...

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Red balloons I brought, escaped your hand, but you can hold my heart instead


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For PD.'s Contest # 5: Melt My Heart
2/9/16...

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Lucy went to London
She couldn't stay at home 
She was a crazy mixed up kid
She felt lost and so alone

When Lucy got to London
The streets weren't paved with gold
She slept in a shop doorway
And shivered in the cold

In the morning she washed in a toilet
In...

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Runaway train, coming down the track
A life of pain, carried on my back
Speeding by, towns with no names
You can’t cry, on the runaway train.

Sometimes life, takes you for a ride
Only nineteen and I’ve got a bride
Hop on board, stay by my side
“I want off”, is...

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RUNAWAY TRAIN

A runaway train a life full of pain
Running avoiding the hurt
Getting away with lies, dancing in the rain
Treating everyone like dirt
Call me insane 
I am my on freak on my runaway train

Running like the gingerbread man
Running as fast as I can
Catch me now if...

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Written January 8, 2013


The morning blues in a lily on the pond
Wake on the wrong side of the road
Penniless pockets play the vagabond game
Ride the tiger recently tamed

On a long road to nowhere, horizon's stain
All's my name sitting next to me
Lie down with graceful angels...

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While others writers think of love
you’ve shat on that pure white dove.
Before on and on, I must go,
I’m telling others of what I know.

Love to ride the ‘Royal Scotsman,”
but this train I’m on is full of flotsam.
What I’m saying is so loaded with duress,
Its’ like...

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Butterfly kisses on nape of neck
Make me feel warm soft blessed
Because you are my yellow happiness
My love like a dove that has flown the nest

Runaway love so red and free
The kind of passion like a fruit so sweet
For the old fashioned or newer generation
Love from...

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Best of friends 
Are me and ewe,
Ain't no ends... 
For us two...

Spent all the day 
One day a year,
Running away
From our shear

Not with our kin
And not in the barn,
Not soon to be in
Grandma's yarn 

Lucky is the cow 
The heifer, the bull,
The piglet and sow
Never...

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When we are forced to stand our ground
Because someone is out of bounds
When you find yourself wanting to rebound
feeling like you have to stand your ground
Realizing your personal space 
Has turned into a battleground

Taking the conversation southbound
Just hoping the situation doesn't compound
Before I know it's...

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