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Escapes Poems - Poems about Escapes

Escapes Poems - Examples of all types of poems about escapes 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 escapes.
Premium Member Skin of Terror
...Skin of Terror - Daniel Henry Rodgers (Lights slowly rise on a lone figure, MICHAEL, hunched over a steering wheel. His knuckles are white aga......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, horror, mental health, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Doppler Vision, A Compounded Riddle
...Dreams, do we imagine!? or imagined for us?~ not really ours man’s daily/nightly flighty escapes – perhaps mystically inspired? Projections of a superior curtain-wizard: His/its contrived illu......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, fantasy, feelings, humanity, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sunrise at the Dock
...As twilight’s veil begins to gently lift, The fading grays give way to golds and blues. And colors mark the waves as shadows shift, Reflective of a new horizon’s hues. Yet gazes fixed on dista......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, beach, earth, good morning,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member leau de la vie
... I’m … (thus told) oft’ purveyor of a pen drowning in the anguish of the heart … bulletin: love - not always love love - always pain always - all ways … wherever, whatever, WHOever the ......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, analogy, appreciation, wisdom, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Awful Word Death
...The sadness of getting lonely, weary and old is none other than the anguishing thought, we can't avoid feeling or mentioning at all cost; daily unrest triggers the awful death word! Will all f......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, abuse, age, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme



The last high
...Bruising my vein Can’t stay in my lane Don’t even feel any pain Acting like my arms are a pincushion A dirty needle about to push in Need that rush Want the voices to hush Never coming down ......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, addiction, anger, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
Too Late
...Far from this place, Where peace escapes, He ran, lost in the race, No one cared for his fate. Death's beckoning touch, Drew him near, His grave, a sanctuary, Where mercy did appear. All ......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, depression, goodbye, grave, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Vancouverite Metropolitan Hellscape, part 1 of 5
...(prelude) the buzzing of the evening insects presage evil ! here are black wolves ! here are ghosts and fiends and here are blackest of demons ! and black be the murk ton......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, abuse, addiction, america, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Quicksand of Thought
...Like sands of thought, a whirlpool's dizzy spins and holes of black, where not a prayer escapes, the gravity ~ temptation's lurid sins, while empty vacuums fill and chaste guilt drapes. While str......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Deal with the Truth
...What a blessing it is to be alive Driven insane until tortured further and I felt my sins so impure But, I told them I will surely survive Want to find the cure and be oh so mature, I will endure ......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, angst, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Scenes of Childhood
...Running fancy free into a field, Chasing butterflies my path revealed, My arms outstretched into the sky, I am so happy--not caring why. Cooled by a fragrant soft Spring breeze, I trip and fall ......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, growing up, introspection, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Black Square Kazimir Malevich 1915
...when you are soaked wet through ¿is that the bones of you visible? do we need to get closer take everything out of context out of focus drying patterns ......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Of Passing Cloud
...Of Passing Cloud - Roger White Unaware of the world below, a wispy cloud suspended between Heaven and Earth drifts westward against an azure sky… …blithely As if coaxed by an unseen presence ......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fall Song with Joanna Daniel
... Fall flourishes with flighty flair, a silent song upon the air. Melody of fading ember, all in spirit, rhythm, and timbre. In Her heart, a tenuous tune flirting with a bold maroon moon......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, autumn, dance, environment, music,
Form: Rhyme
Fall Song - A Collab with Linda Alice Fowler
... Fall flourishes with flighty flair, a lilting song upon the air. Symphony of fading cinder all in spirit, rhythm, and timbre. In Her heart a mild melody flirting with a sweet revel......Read the rest...
Categories: escapes, autumn, song,
Form: Rhyme

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