Short Escape Poems
Short Escape Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Escape by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Escape by length and keyword.
it was spewing venom
in the shape of evil
i ran as far as i could run
and never looked back
AP: 3rd place 2025
Flashbacks are the safe havens
for those who want to escape
from their mundane routines.
2nd Place
Darkness surrounds me
I reside in a black cloud
That brings me closer
To death descending into
a dungeon I can't escape
Silently now
I tiptoe near,
Longing for his touch.
Vagaries of Fate, how cruel,
Escape is impossible.
Release me never.
oval optic orbs
limitless lingering lights
evolve escalate ...escape
For: Chris Aechtner's "Alliterative Haiku Contest"
Summertime
Laying on green lawns
Long yawns
Watching the clouds
Picking faces out of their shapes
What a great escape
You cant escape your fate
Or else it would have a different brand
Everything is just one thing
To a beach we are but sand
Form:
You can't run away from the ashes
—as their memory burns from within
(June, 2020: University Of Pennsylvania Hospital)
Artist Fred Cuming often did sketch
en plein air he would stretch
Into the country to escape
painting his local landscape
~ Written with a certain poetess in mind. ~
we can't run away from ourselves ~ there's no place our hearts can escape
us
Morning of the Resurrection
Caused a bit of introspection
The first to rise
Was in disguise
How did she escape detection?
The poet's task is simple, noble and bold
For the poem need only hold open a door
long enough to allow the reader to escape
men led me to sex
and sex led me to webcams
and webcams led me to corvettes
and corvettes allowed me to drive right by you
Ivory Tigress
Escape your species perish
Pool full of your tears
For Raul Moreno's contest "Primal Instinct".
Dark rock creatures creep
half-submerged in clouded tide. . .
no escape from night
For Raul Moreno's Ghost Tide contest
Don't you just love to poo?
On the soup, yes you do
Can't escape
But can relate
To the world made by you!
Russell Sivey
Living life dreaming
is not an escape or a defense,
it's finding a real way out...
I dream of Heaven—
I polish clouds with longings
scraping the ground bare
underneath for my liftoff
to escape from gravity
I quake in my fate,
aware I'm dreaming alone—
lucid to alter
course in the dream I'm sail in.
but I can't escape the dawn
powerful juno
roman queen of strong women
your song we still sing
as we escape twinned clutches
of crushing weeds to flower
rain less morning sun
a peen, charming hamster runs
under the lilies
9/2/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©
Her blizzard-like air
Whitening up the universe
Painted pure bleakness
Making me feel helpless
Begging for an escape plan.
Hummingbird feeding
on droopy, purple blossom...
no escape for bugs.
Entered in Raul Moreno's contest,
" Daily Ritual "
I sought out
the day
and when
I couldn't escape the blame
I never
died of shame
verily
a poisoned pill
I couldn't take.
Soothing and restoring
Lavishing energy for our journey
Escape in to fantasy
Elixor for reality
Powerful escape we must take