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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.
Premium Member Accidentally: THE END
...Sand scrapes my skin as I wake, Warm water around my shoulders break, Spluttering, I shake my head and open my eyes, Palms and dunes to my surprise. Shock constricts my body as I cannot regist......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, adventure, beach,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Over The Waters Blue
..."over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar" ... Samual Taylor Coleridge Over the waters blue I love to sail, many times I get to see a big whale. Some nights t......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, blue, boat, love, sea,
Form: Bio
Premium Member A Mouse Or A Mountain
... Growing up, I was the runt of the litter. My siblings called me Cute, because I was the youngest one. It was very hard growing up as a little mouse, gray with tiny white spots. I saw ......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, animal, family, giggle, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Woke Up On A Tropical Island
... A vacation was needed, off on a cruise we were treated. Great cabin, food, parties and shows, now in a chair with a book about a rose. The seas got really rough, off the desk went our ......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, drink, food, friend, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Sound Bites: May 28, 2024
...Dead Calm Without friction there is no motion Without motion — creation stops (Dreamsleep: May, 2024) Abeyance My pen is searching for its guitar case a place to sleep when the wr......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Poet's Heartfelt Ode To Italy
...A Poet's heartfelt ode to Italy is the murmur of the calmest sea heard at the close of a long day; anchored boats in the bay of Amalfi await sunset and nobody has a plea to escape danger, so nos......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, beauty, emotions, joy, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Breathing
...I’m scared of what life has in store But I’m also excited to see what it is. Back in 2021 I wanted to end it all I was ready to forfeit this race. It was always day but I chose to not see th......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, mental illness, sad, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Hole
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ light cannot escape the gravity is too great inside a black hole ......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, space,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Burn
... Written: May 27, 2024, For Robert James Liguori Contest, Inspired From Glenn Hughes Song " Burn" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The sky spills scarlet, a burning st......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, celebrity, song,
Form: Rhyme
Remember Me
... Remember me in shadows of the past with blinders off and heart agape recall me in the morning's dawn recast Alongside yesterdays of sweet escape beneath a burning sun as we took shape ......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, appreciation,
Form: Quintain (English)
Whispers of the Quill
...With my solution upon my parchment bright I conjure worlds where imagination takes flight The ink flows free, a wondrous, winding stream As letters spin forth, fabricating words unseen A tapest......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member After the party, I woke up on a tropical island
...After the party, I woke up on a tropical island The journey here, a mystery, a feeling so grand Surrounded by beauty, in a place so serene I can't help but wonder, how did I end up in this scene? ......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, beach, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
The Voice in the Distance
...May showers are brewing underneath the clouds and the temperature keeps bouncing up and down the ocean floor and the pregnant skies drips water from inside and my heart is singing a sweet lullaby. ......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, adventure, best friend, bird,
Form: Narrative
true love
...True love? There is something I want to tell you the audience I can't see hidden in the shadow land  I write for you and speak silently cosmic loneliness, unable to reach out to touch and to ......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, absence, africa, age, birthday,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Sunlight in the Cafeteria - Edward Hopper
...sallow confined to the shadow though his glance reaches across the void solvent so far in my averted gaze this man will not stop the sun falling on my face my air is purified, greyness swerves me......Read the rest...
Categories: escape, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

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