Running Away Poems

Running Away From Home

Maybe belonging

Isn't about

Finding something

Maybe sometimes

It's about

Being found.
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Categories: running away, care, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberrunning away

we ran away 
each riding on our tricycle.... 
switched all the way home 

privet hedge limbs  
have so many uses.... 
red streaks on my legs 

the ride back home 
took so much longer.... 
crying and pedaling 
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Categories: running away, childhood,
Form: Senryu


Premium MemberRunning away from Home

when I think of running away from home
what do I want to take?
a little food would be good
peanut butter and crackers for sure
I put them into my backpack

do I need my jewelry? Not really.
Two t-shirts, a pair of shorts, some long pants
Maybe one nightie
Tennis shoes and socks, but no dress shoes

two credit cards, and three
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Categories: running away, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRunning away from Home

when I think of running away from home
what do I want to take?
a little food would be good
peanut butter and crackers for sure
I put them into my backpack

do I need my jewelry? Not really.
Two t-shirts, a pair of shorts, some long pants
Maybe one nightie
Tennis shoes and socks, but no dress shoes

two credit cards, and three
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Categories: running away, humorous,
Form: Free verse

INSANE POETRY RUNNING AWAY Part 02

Oh Syrinx, by the lake where you await, blossom anew!
Proud of murmurs that speak of goddesses, in a reverent hue.

Unleash the waists of shadows, in my tales they live and breathe,
As I imbibe the brightness of the grape, dispelling sorrow.
Laughing, I raise the emptied glass beneath the summer sky,
Breathing into luminous skins, yearning until evening
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Categories: running away, poems,
Form: Free verse


INSANE POETRY RUNNING AWAY Part 01

Gathered among lovely nymphs, whose grace shines brightly like eternal stars

Their vibrant essence lingers, embracing radiantly,
In the dream-laden air, does my love pursue only a fleeting vision?

My uncertainty, an ancient veil of darkness, now reaches its peak.
In the quiet branches that linger faithfully, in enduring woods,
Alas, I too have presented myself as a false and
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Categories: running away, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRunning Away From Home

I am running away the four-year-old told his parents.
Take some clothes, his father urged him.
Better take your piggy bank, said his sister.
Would you like a sandwich? Asked his mother.

He said he did not need any of that stuff.
He was only taking one thing, his puppy, Ralph.
Ralph happily followed him to the gate.
Where they sat for
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Categories: running away, parents,
Form: Prose

Running Away

When I was a kid, I wanted to run away.

As if running away, would be fun.

Like running through clouds,

And the clouds are happy.

My mom scolded me, 

But it was all fun, and make believe.

I just turned 17.

I just got my license. 

And the car is glaring in the sun.

Singing songs on that radio.

That were sad.

Driving
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Categories: running away, age, angst, depression,
Form: Free verse

Running Away

the mornings light
	before me lies
dawn does break
	in eastern sky

and I know not
	what in the day
what I shall do
	stay or go away

a distant path
	does call to me
to places that
	I might be

and do the things
	that I do not know
and learn the things
	that I might know

and yet the fear
	of what might be
what I might find
	and I might be

but
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Categories: running away, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRunning Away

I’m running away
to unearth consolation. 
My knees - my bindle,
carried to the ground.

To unearth consolation,
I’ve traveled so far, so near.
Carried to the ground -
all my trepidation and loss.

I’ve traveled, so far, so near
to the presence of Christ.
All my trepidation and loss
laid down at the foot of the cross.

To the presence of Christ -
my knees. 
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Categories: running away, christian, grief, prayer,
Form: Pantoum

Running Away

Running away
 
Running away
They couldn’t make her stay
Further and further into the woods
Why didn’t she stop like she should
Time went by fast
She stopped at last
She was scared
She was in the middle of no where
She realized that day
Never run away from fear
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Categories: running away, fear,
Form: Free verse

Running Away

Running away
 
Running away
They couldn’t make her stay
Further and further into the woods
Why didn’t she stop like she should
Time went by fast
She stopped at last
She was scared
She was in the middle of no where
She realized that day
Never run away from fear
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Categories: running away, fear,
Form: Free verse

Running Away

Did you ever feel like running away 
From the place you stay
Having a rest
To be at your best

Put on a new identity 
From which to choose there is plenty
You could hide behind this
That thought lets not dismiss

Where to go
Its hard to know
What to choose
Ideas a plenty
Suggestion box is certainly not empty 

Create new memories
Try new
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Categories: running away, angst, conflict, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

To Let Go

How hard is the letting go when it’s all you know
Shadows under ice
   One
      Wrong
          Step
             Cracks become fissures to fall through
Shadow black eyes
   
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Categories: running away, abuse, angst, recovery from,
Form: Free verse

Indecisive Running Away Man I Am

Indecisive Running Away Man I Am!

Always running away to and from
anything and everything 
anyone and everyone in which I
indecisively not knowing what to do or even where ever to go in order
to find solace and acceptance by others and especially myself
adapting to but still struggling with having only solace in solitude for now
never actually solving
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Categories: running away, angst, anxiety, cry, depression,
Form: Free verse

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