Best Captive Poems

"Captive Deep Blue Je Reviens"





I walk beside you 
in your dreams,
you are always in me 
warm and pounding, 
twin heart, 
burning bright flame, 
beautiful addiction
captive deep blue je reviens
Sun igniting, 
I stand with you, invisible 
we are haunting 
the deserted 
French vanilla streets, 
where time...

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12 BARS

Twelve  brazen bars, one frozen lock!
Confined, sublime, an ancient Roc
endures inside a barren cage,
her catacomb in sundown sage.

Of former days there is no trace
except displays of fallen grace –
Twelve dreams, abiding in her place,
are free, inhabit yawning space:

     ...

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Too long spent in deep shadows 
prevented my eyes from seeing
why the lights were so dimmed 
why I had the need for freeing

Verses written by candle light
but not signed with my name
with one step out of the shadow
my first poem went up in flame

No lack...

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Your thought-balloons are filled with wild and magical freedom ~

until madness seizes your think tank 
trapping your ceaselessly chirping ideas 
within the teeth of its snapped steel-jaws 
refusing to relinquish you; lest you chew up and spit out your mind-racing brain

ire over this cognitive quagmire...

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 She was a captive from the start
 Escape was risky, would she try?
 Freedom beckoned, time to depart?
 But freedom needed wings to fly

 Escape was risky, would she try?
 But each attempt left her in tears
 She just could not conquer her fears
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Held captive within my own stupidity
Stuck within the walls that bind
The past is stuck, studying me

You hit me down with unknowing eyes
A pain stings, but I have no words
I hold on too fearfully dreams

A knife bleeds my heart
You see nothing, they all see nothing
As you...

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“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.”
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What the heart holds captive,
—the mind will never free

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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I pray to my Lord in Heaven,
To make a way for my return!
I yearn to hear the sounds of home;
The buffalo raging by,
The softness of the wind,
The howling of coyotes,
The squawking hawks,
The cows out in the pasture,
The rustling of wheat,
As the stream trickles by.

The wind...

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Held Captive
Written: by Tom Wright
3/7/2016

The joys of my past are asleep,
Yet I’ve become a prisoner to departed days,
And they resist my flight.

While today shrouds me in pain.
I’m constantly prompted to remember,
That forever remains before me.
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Written: September 09, 2023
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In the abyss of night, I'm held captive tight.
Addiction to idioms fuels my Phoebus fight.
I abide, vouching sporadically to escape,
From the clutches of zeal, I can't reshape.

But my quill rebels; it won't be subdued.
It dances on my fingertips, its blaze renewed.
Beleaguered by...

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Devonian birthed an innocent beach
down at the delta of a river great.
Compressed and oppressed by sediment weight,
sand became stone hidden far from life's reach.

A northern ice-angel came to impeach
the cloak of silt atop the stone's pate.
Leaving exposed in a fixed angry state
labyrinths and crevices bred...

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Sparked alive in the dark, like an old photo, framed
Released from a vault of a million dreams lost
A day, drenched with rain, where my eyes  couldn't claim
to see it as clearly, for it seemed to be crossed
by the moon and the stars, where all...

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The cold Wintry nights,
Release the imprisoned leaves:
Bailed out by the sun....

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Shrouded
Distant pine trees
Blanketed in silver
Briefly secrets held captive
Sun's light  ...

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