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Escape Poems - Poems about Escape

Escape Poems - Examples of all types of poems about escape to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for escape.
You said your life was boring so I have just released your address to every spider I know
...You have time still, to escape with your essentials. I only know one spider. It will crawl to you slowly, as a million-dollar snail might. He has made an apartment where the ceiling an......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, love,
Form: Free verse



Through wanderings of dreams that simmer beneath closed eyelids
...Through wanderings of dreams that simmer beneath closed eyelids, A man chose to remain silent, waiting in vain for vibrant moments. Wrapped in the warm cocoon of faded security, He saw life turnin......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
When Death Stopped for Me
...Because I could not escape from Life – It rudely dragged me forth – The chaos swirled, consuming all – And Oblivion, my worth. We raced through days – no time to rest – And I, a franti......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, age, cry, destiny, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member in-coming
...Something’s happening, let’s call it sunrise, for now, and summer vacation in Geneva, in umm.. 10 hours. My heart-beat is spiking, like a flag or kite flying. I’m leaving an empty room - making on......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, boyfriend, school, student, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member There Are No Hard Days Riding A Bicycle Across The US
... I've spent a great deal of time riding alone this last week. Many of the roads we have been on do not have a shoulder making it impossible to ride side by side. There have been so many hills I do......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, adventure, blessing, cancer, encouraging,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Courage of the Heart
... How does a Wallenda fly on a trapeze How does ‘Houdini’ escape with such ease How does a warrior rise from his sickbed Is it courage of the heart or that of the head H......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, courage, heart, heaven,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Timelapse
...You caught me running, constantly looking back, tears merging within the rain. If I took a leap, would I fly? Left behind, the mole above your lip, laughter in your eyes, jaded progression. I......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, absence, care, cry, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Curtains
...CLOSET DRAMA Setting: Two friends working out how to create a beautiful garment from the curtains. And planning an escape. Characters: Giselle (G) An innocent young wo......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, character,
Form: Verse
Premium Member When Silence Speaks
... Now you have gone away, I have not much to say. Remembering sitting on the bay, even when the big clouds were gray. I know you could not stay, what I would give for one more day. You went on......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, bird, day, dream, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Disaster
... I went for my early morning run, just me and my young son. It was to be a lot of fun, then home for a hot cross bun. We waved to Mary's grandson, <>...Read the rest...
Categories: escape, fun, giggle, mom, son,
Form: Rhyme
Nightmare
...Low below the foaming seam, Slowly grows a bright red gleam, Only known in my own dreams, Lonely drone of evil schemes. It swims fast, it wont last, But right now it's forever, It kills me, i......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, dark, death, fear, how
Form: Rhyme
Brief Mane n Tail shampoo tall tell tale
...Brief Mane n' Tail shampoo tall (tell) tale Living social amidst crime infested urban jungle bumping uglies cheek to jowl analogous fate being housed in jail escape room of great outdoors ......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, adventure, anger, animal, beach,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member protests
...If you’ve read any of my delicious, hand-crafted vignettes and listened to us talk, you’ll know that my roommates and I are critical thinking swifties who spend hour after hour talking about anything......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, appreciation, celebration, education, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Music Is The Drug
...MUSIC IS THE DRUG ~~~~~~~ In the symphony of life, a rhapsody so grand, Music as the drug, a magic at our command.² Notes like whispers, touching deep within, A symphony of soul, where new w......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Oblivion
...In the depths of her despair, she's confined, A solitary figure, lost in her mind, Engulfed by shadows, no end in sight, She battles demons in the darkest night. Her thoughts, like poison, eat ......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, conflict, dark, depression, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme

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