#running poems on Hello Poetry

Paseal Joe Dec 2019

COURAGE

Something keeps me awake,
in the midst of the storm,
and makes me want to fight,
instead of hide.
It lets me take up the battle
that others have feared to fight,
and diminishes the fear,
that has threatened to eat me alive.
Courage....

it makes you take a step,
when you could have run away,
makes you throw stones at the enemy,
and watch and wait,
it makes you move,
when you could have stayed trembling.
Courage...

It gets you on your feet again,
after you have fallen several times
it makes you push,
when there's no more strength in you
and leaves you waiting
when there's nothing to wait for.
courage doesn't await victory,
it works it out.
Stay courageous.

#P.J

#pj #courage #battle #fear #run #running #push #remain #feet #fallen

Matteo Palermo Dec 2019

The Sea

The sea won’t bring your mind to ease
Only drown in the current
Choking on the saltwater
Stinging our wounds
I can’t continue to see you live this way

#ocean #running #problems #loss #life #tragedy

Capriccio Dec 2019

My Motions on E again

My Motions are on E Again
No Ecstasy
Free from Elation
End of Day
Bad Boss Back to Screaming

Loco is his Motion

#emotions #running #on #e #ecstacy #elation

Jason Drury Nov 2012

A photographic escape

The dunes are tall,
but, we can still hear the crash.
The smell of salt reminds us,
of treasured frames.
You asked if I remembered,
“yes” I do remember that one.

Flour like sand,
it cradled our feet.
Our palms smacked,
the land.
As we progressed,
to our full stride.

Loops of gold,
surrounded us.
Tickling the laughter out of us,
it echoes beautifully.

In slow romance,
your gaze meets mine.
That is when you turned,
'click' a pose framed,
by my eye.

The shutter captured,
a moment of escape.

#photography #beach #running #summer #blue #sky #sun #rays #gold #love

Orchid T Aspen Dec 2019

Crest

The whole time,
I was running as fast as I could, consumed by the flames that only knew that they should whisper
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to just run
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just run away,
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that they should lick me
to get a taste
and desire me forever,
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that they should laugh
to keep me fleeing,
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so away and away,
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to keep me fearing
for my life and even
other lives,
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so
many
lives
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enough
that in a terrored moment,
I couldn't remember
if they were my own,
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and at the end of the edges
that I just kept running through,
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even though
there was nothing left for me
to see or feel,
nothing left to convince me
that safety was only steps away
if I could please,
please
just keep taking them,
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I was stricken,
impaled on
the thought,
the horrified suspicion,
some feeling bent on attacking me too,
the final flagship of my guilt,
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a death speech,

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that maybe I was leading those flames instead.
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Where should we have gone?

#fear #running #abandonment #leading #following #guilt #paranoia #hindsight

Allyssa Mason Nov 2019

Recovery?

Life has become
A game of running from the past
My demons are my traumas
Always catching up so fast

Used to drown them gently
Burning liquid in my veins
Together we'd indulge ourselves
And dance without our chains

I made a promise to you back then
Before you grew your glorious wings
A promise to try to heal inside
And let go of unimportant things

My life has become
A game of running from the past
Because that's how I feel okay finally
It's the only way I'll last

#alcoholism #love #death #grief #recovery #running #therapy #psychology

Tess M Nov 2019

zombie

always on the
run from
you
but the virus
is already here
in my lungs
I cannot stop
it
I am already
done

#sickness #anger #running #freedom #judgement

Hunter Green Nov 2019

How to Feel

It’s running and fighting.
Respectively.
Fighting the running to grasp some humility,
but fearing the loss of value in my true location,
my true state of being.
Do I fight just so I don’t become a disturbance,
My own mind dying, just so I don’t receive more rejection?
It is either protection or pride.
While still chasing that perfect child,
I listen to the lies that keep me from something that might actual help.

#anxiety #running #fighting #rejection #mind

Silverflame Oct 2019

Looking For Courage

I know I'm a fool for
running away from love,
especially when love is the only
thing I've been dreaming of.

But I'm afraid of rejection, so I
isolate myself from other's affection.

Time after time I find myself
walking this road alone,
with just the thought of love
to keep me warm.

#love #fool #running #dream #rejection #isolate #affection #road #alone #courage

Juhlhaus Oct 2019

I Am a Creature of Movement and Pain

I am a creature
Of movement and pain.
In movement and pain I exist
And have always existed.
To cease movement
Will be to pass from existence.
I am a creature
Of movement and pain.

A marathoner's mantra.

#run #running #endurance #tenacity #movement #motion #pain #existence #mantra