#escapism poems on Hello Poetry

Swords and Roses Nov 2015

I plunge into fantasy to forget I have a reality

#reality #10w #fantasy #coping #escapism

Thomas Newlove Oct 2015

He who says escapism cannot solve your problems
has never been a cinephile with depression
who can sit and watch The West Wing in his pants.

Tweet verse or a Twitter poem made up of exactly 140 characters

#depression #problems #escapism #twitter #thewestwing #tweet #tweetverse

Nicolette Avery Pizzigoni Sep 2015

I Don't Remember Writing this

I just don’t know how to be alone.
All I find comfort in seems to be that too clear liquid
that smells
too much like rubbing alcohol,
but tastes
like relief in a bottle.
It burns down my throat
but it feels like a heaven
I didn’t have to die to get to.
It’s peace in a place of chaos.
A pool in the midst of summer’s fire.

#lonely #alcohol #escapism #alcoholic

Graff1980 Sep 2015

Hideaway Kid

Call me the hideaway kid
Cause I run from what they did
Avoiding the personal
Because it hurts.

I can see each scar
Each line of ages
And exhaustion

Each bald spot
Each sweat ring
Each stinging red spot

For every head
The hangs
Just a little lower

For every heart
That breaks
Just a little more

For ever bruise
Wound, or scar

I retreat just a little farther
Cringe just a little harder
Clench my heart tighter
Till my chest bleeds
Till I cannot breath
Till what is left of me
Is nothing
But a mess

Shadows become my home
Movies and games
Become my distraction
Easing just an inkling
Of the pain I feel
From seeing the real pain
Of the world

#humanity #escapism

Alyssa Rose Evans Aug 2015

"Ad-Libbing"

Charlie crumpled up the script
that his mother left him as a note on the banister;
an ode to matronly passive-aggression
scrawled in haphazard cursive
on the back of a Meijer receipt when she was drunk.

While conducting a routine bedroom sweep
for any arbitrary evidence
to convict her son, yet again,
as the eternal family scapegoat,
Marilyn was far from pleased
to find his final disregard
of her bankrupt maternal instinct
clouded by inherited alcoholism
wadded up in his wastebasket.

Jaded by plot conventions, dodging foreshadow,
we scrapped our narratives and hopped in his car.
Untethered by destination, we drove through the rain
in the last hours to waste of a Sunday night.
Stopped at an intersection in an unfamiliar town,
he turned to me with an expectant smile:

“Where to now?”

With no surrounding traffic to rush our decision,
I glanced in both directions.

“Let’s turn left.”
“Where’s that lead?”

I squinted in the dark.
*“Wherever the hell we’re going.”

#family #escapism #parents #mothers #predetermination

Rhianecdote Jul 2015

Embrace Yourself

You don't need comfort nor distraction
what you need is a plan of action
A helpin hand,
make it your own
Don't go under,
STAND
see how much you've grown

I believe in you
But don't take my word for it
SEE
Look at all you've shown
Promise cannot be broken
It's hope
Hope will lead you home

The place where you belong
Where you are meant to be
You will see it through eventually
Realise what you've always known

Reality isn't something to escape
It's something to make
Make the most of it
Creationists in our midsts

You have gifts, talent, ability
So much to give
Take control, take responsibility
There's nothing to fear, not really

Cause You have love
And You will always
be able to make it

Embrace life
Do not forsake it

You're not alone
But if you ever feel like you are
Embrace yourself
Hug out the doubt
Love is the ultimate wealth
Start with yourself

You are not a mere reflection
Of what you see
You are not a mirror
Reflecting what they think you should be
You are you
Who you hope to be

I see you
I see your hopes
I see your dreams

I love you
I love your hopes
I love your dreams

Hold onto them
Embrace yourself
For they are you
You are the key

Love yourself
Love your hopes
Love your dreams

Truly believe
Make it real
And it will be
your Reality

I've indulged in my fair share of escapism in life, we all do from time to time.
I kinda wish we would realise Life isn't something to escape but rather something to embrace

#love #life #hope #dreams #reality #embrace #escapism #support #encouragement

Paul NP Jun 2015

Escapism

A warmth awakens from a deep blue sea
displacing the water and shaping the breeze
my thoughts transcend above and beyond
my lungs compress to the impact of song

when your focus directs, a silence imbues
my chest fills up with a lack of you
and the feelings created are internally debated
when emotion springs color, a passion is weighted

my stomach indulges in feather proportions
and my actions resolve with weathers contortion
just exhale a sound to calm me down
your presence abiding; is love renown

now all that's left is this scripture of deity
my trust for you takes-way from anxiety

I'll see you soon, when you least expect it
when I confessed to you, I thoroughly meant it

"walk with me forever girl, this gift of heart will never be sold
our love is the rarest of alchemy, and our chemistry is worth more than gold"

#love #missing #letter #escapism

Broken Prism Prison Son Jun 2015

8 hours into my start on HP - how am I getting on? (10w)

I want to get smashed, circles decreasing, lurking was easier.

8 hours after my first post and I have been reading and liking/commenting/following others poetry and my head is spinning (not sure if in a good or bad way - have to wait until after my next few days of dream state to see if it has distilled the inputs and outputs, received and given (freely) ) - just i need to escape now - really enjoying this but the amount of emotional writing (when isnt it?) that triggers a need to respond (not a trigger for a negative/positive mental state - just the need to respond as an active observer) is quiet amazing and also how the people I read are immediately linked to my first poem here and thus the second half of the circle completes (I hope this makes sense) - even with more circles they only seem to be created within the initial circle - (thanks Wolf Spirit - I will try to remember you as an initial (good) trigger) - I am just comparing it to how previously I just looked and never ever interacted (my fault I know - I need to apply the same principle to my waking non internet life also but baby steps and it will take decades and i will be very very very tired by then) --- this is my first public 10w poem - I really like the format of 10w - sometimes when you leave out the words others interpretations will fill the word space differently :-))))))) cheers!!!! Can of Guinness in hand :-)))))))))

#10w #escapism #notdrunkyet #thankshpandeliot

md-writer Jun 2015

fade

i watch you fade
into the night
of formless shadows
shapeless sins

they swirl around you
before the strike
of deathly terrors
shrieking fiends

breathe it in
you say
to hold the
powers of darkness
at bay

let them in
and they will play
a little pain
like dancing splashes
of pouring rain
so quickly gone

keep them out
and they will rend
the very fibers of your soul
and when your blood
drips
upon the thirsty ground
they will stoop to smell
your fear

so breath it in
the darkling mist
come let them play
within the midst
of all your halfway
dreams
and thoughts of bliss

-

but in the end
the deepest pit
by spoonfuls dug
tick by tock
a dragon's bane
may prove

and
if the gifting shadows
fade
you will see
in the looking-glass
not your own
but the mirror of a madman
driven by
that
precious fear
to sell the soul
of all that he holds dear

drugs, alcohol, escapism - it's all a lie

#alcohol #drugs #dreams #darkness #breathe #lie #escapism #mist #fiends #madman