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Metaphor Escape Poems

These Metaphor Escape poems are examples of Escape poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Escape Metaphor poems written by international poets.

Let's Escape Tonight

let's escape tonight
leave this drum behind
without packing
without our phones

just take our scars
and sculptured bones
we notched upon each other...

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Categories: escape, friend, life, love, metaphor,

Escape From the Abyss

I’ve been to the edge of the abyss, the deep dark dungeon that is love
I fell and kept falling, my heart continually being consumed by...

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Categories: escape, analogy, hyperbole, love hurts,

Crash Override


Anaphylactic identity, constricting logic on the 
course towards infinity. Denial is drawn like a tarot 
reading, citing that it is all in your head. Hidden...

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Categories: escape, computer, corruption, extended metaphor,

A Poets Escape

Not a word unspoken,
You’ve seen it all.
My heart tore open,
I pour to you
Instead of alcohol....

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Categories: escape, addiction, angst, blue, deep,

Midnight Sun

Pitch black, nothing in sight,
the only sensation my body feels is the cold wind
and the icy shiver creeping down my spine.
My heart races, my legs...

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Categories: escape, anxiety, death, fear, hope,

Cry For Freedom

Who shall restore our land's dignity
When plundered by thieves
Who frolic about in the corridors of power 
How shall we escape 
From the lashes of history?...

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Categories: escape, corruption, freedom, history, metaphor,

Life's Offense and the Muses As Escape

I sit with pen in hand this downcast morn;
     and search the Muses for more enraptured songs;
songs of great cheer, of...

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Categories: escape, god, innocence, introspection, life,

My Addiction To Your Love Was Worse Than Any Substance Because Nobody Told Me Love's Homicidal

 x You,
the one who hurts me.
 x You,
the one who chains me.
 x You,
the one who controls me like a puppet.
 x You,
the one...

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Categories: escape, abuse, addiction, girlfriend, love,

No Escape

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


May 23, 2021...

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Categories: escape, humorous, metaphor,

To Escape Inequity

In the years of 
nineteen-hundred and sixties 
in palm of muggy 
Mississippi Delta 
we would walk around 
in thick & bitter air, 
we would hide...

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Categories: escape, america, anxiety, black african

The Great Escape

Grand dreams that weep from vaults amidst the rain

Rouge billowed cheeks bleed soft from twilight's hem

Each star bounds heaven's breast, one glistened gem

All birthed from...

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Categories: escape, analogy, dream, fantasy, imagination,

Rose, the Bloom

Rose, the bloom

Sweet in color, 
eternal in fragrance,
majestic monarch of the flowers. 

Kind lady in red, 
a fine dress made of silk, 
or sometimes sheer...

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Categories: escape, africa, angel, faith, grief,

Escape Artist

Problems arise..
I run..
I run away from everything..
Everything that occurs..

Cannot handle the truth..
No exceptions to the rule
You have spilled your truth..
Justification shapes form..
On my behalf..
Situations are...

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Categories: escape, leaving, metaphor,

A Brief Escape From Purgatory

Do not fear my darling for spring has come early.
Step outside and feel the warm yellow rays on your face,
Feel the earth melt beneath your...

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Categories: escape, cheer up, imagery, metaphor,

Escape

These are the tightest handcuffs I've ever worn,

not to both wrists, another, no.

The my home I have been sworn.

It keeps me attached to the low.



I'm...

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Categories: escape, abuse, grief, home, life,