Best Runaways Poems
Below are the all-time best Runaways poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of runaways poems written by PoetrySoup members
Let There Be LightLet there be light which shines through this earth. Jesus was born with a light full birth. Let our light shine through your beautiful faces....
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Categories:
runaways, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
Rocknroll Oldies NarrativeJuly 4, 1961
Well HELLO MARY LOU,
You won’t believe this but I just HEARD...
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Categories:
runaways, nostalgia, satire, song-lyricdance, me,
Form:
Narrative
CocoonedWinter's crisp yet early breath whispered to me this eve
A yearly session as we, the cold and me, gather
Conferring when, when can I join her,...
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Categories:
runaways, confusion, me,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Torn DungareesIn alleys devoid of light,
runaways sleep on the street.
And fear arrives late at night
to feed upon their conceit.
Delusions exchanged for lies,
youths gather within the park.
And...
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Categories:
runaways, angst, anxiety, city, emotions,
Form:
Quatrain
Good Morning, AmericaIt was a long lonely night at the lumber mill
Just listening to a whippoorwill
In the dark beside a logging road.
I’ve got fifteen cars of...
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Categories:
runaways, america, moving on, time,
Form:
Pastoral
Saltines and CodeineAlmost everyone who came back from Korean War
plays Piano now.
All around that lounge were cognac glasses
being used for tip jars.
The customers were either runaways-fugitives or
here...
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Categories:
runaways, imaginationred,
Form:
Free verse
WindowmanWINDOWMAN
Scratching his scruff, the windowman bent to
the glass and gleamed
While the round of the rag squealed against the
glass and tiny water runaways...
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Categories:
runaways, allegory, water, water,
Form:
Free verse
America, the Age of ConflictAmerica, the land of the free, catering to the wealthy and pushing the poor.
Blacks are all but exempt; they are seen as property and nothing...
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Categories:
runaways, history, , cute,
Form:
ABC
Queens of NoiseThis is a piece about five rocking girls
At seventeen years old they rocked my world
I think I first heard of them in Sounds magazine
Five girls...
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Categories:
runaways, love, musicme, old, me,
Form:
Quatrain
The Mysteries of Secret 3Jerusalem lead him to his death and brother found peace with war, the peacekeeper laugh to mock the chief of the keeper of hell's...
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Categories:
runaways, religion,
Form:
Sonnet
My WordsMy Words
In the midnight
Like hands of a clock unite.
Yet there is nothing
But a darkness
That extends like a great wall
And there is...
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Categories:
runaways, words,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Come To Past Suffering{"How ones life has been going on, keep writing hard times a sentence on, you can be a light switch off/on."} - Loverboi
The suffering of...
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Categories:
runaways, longing, universe,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Feeling Fetter Everyday
We were told at a young age,
capitalism is long-term better
Got the short end of the slave trade,
now everyday I’m feeling fetter
Working the industrial fields,
come rain...
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Categories:
runaways, allegory, history, how i
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Baltimore TalesBaltimore Tales
lazy fat cat meowing, begging for a meal,
mother baking cookies, grates an orange peel.
husband’s belly flopping, cold beer in his hand,
watching Jimmy Kimmel,...
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Categories:
runaways, crazy, mom, , cute,
Form:
Verse
A Season Not Our OwnLet’s go where sheets of sea glide over sand,
Scattering foamy blossoms at our feet,
And ardent rays shall wounds of winter mend,
Like suture...
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Categories:
runaways, beach, seasons, summer, sun,
Form:
Sonnet