Best Captives Poems

Beauty-words languish in my soul, mute,
a million misty drops suspended,
trembling, in the atmosphere
not yet spoken into rain.

They lie captive within the barred cage,
innocent prisoners condemned
to voiceless wonder,
only an inaudible cry strikes the barred breast,
a silent beating against the cell.

We would speak;
We are pierced with beauty's...

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Rhetoric! Over and over again, we hear
The same old arguments, year after year
Fooling around with mankind’s minds
You hide cleverly and can’t be found

The TV newsman reports, as they’re told
Edited, slanted, from whence banks hold
Merely slaves, to things, and slaves, who hear
Lies, tales, agendas, hidden, we’re...

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Each and every day that comes 
finds our faces washed up with tears 
wondering when we'll be free again 
to team up with our loving dears. 

Suffering is the air that we breath 
proving that happiness, we'll never find 
that, is the bitter truth of...

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December’s Captives  


Nights are longer than before
tepid sun in full retreat before
shallow light of cold stung moon

hanging over heaving stillness.
Crystal crispness tapping
on frosted windows

fireplace crackling Acapella  response.
Outside silence – unbroken
by soft feathered Owl wings

floating over whiteness
in union with the clouds
moon shadows dancing the...

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He came across the ocean
     and landed on their shore,
Looked at all the scenery
     he’d never seen before;
But his head was spinning madly
     and his barefoot feet were sore,
So he boarded ship and...

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Juan, Casanova
Poetry in emotion
artistry of Love...

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V,

Got jailed,

At the civic centre!...

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In a Norwegian slumber they came to take us away.
They used shovels and torches.
But mostly arms and strong fingers.
We were the final ones out of the terminal.

The cockroaches sing with us now.
We live in utter parlance.
Askance, downward goes our drives.

But this is not about us,...

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What has your heart desired to say when the words could not be captured and expressed in beautiful voice? A thousand verses and rhymes and stories did wrestle within, straining against the silence. What was waiting, captive to the throbbing heart, beat by beat, aching...

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We are all captives,

Of this world our own.

Nowhere to run,

Nowhere to hide.

Life is to short,

To be captives of,

Our own fears.

So, live, learn, love,

And break free so, your not part of the…

Captives...

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Captive of Love: Ode to the Cocoa Bean
Within your humble shell, a treasure lies,
A sea of flavors, rich and deeply sweet.
An exotic dream beneath the skies,
A love affair no other can defeat.
You capture hearts, eternal in your snare,
A bite, and Eden’s garden comes alive.
Surrender to...

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Captives of the Calendar
David J Walker

And so goes your calendar
January nearly gone
With another new dawn
Approaching 
Just beyond the encroaching 
Morning sun

To me, this today is forever
never new and
The night will never grow older as
The passing of the suns and moons
The equinox grows colder

This today will...

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Held as captives in a ship
Chains binding us together 
Hunger, but we could not starve
Tears but we could not cry.

We were warriors of our land 
Children of the soil
May the gods forbid that our ancestors would look us in shame.

And so together,
We ambushed our captors
And...

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Who shall restore our land's dignity
When plundered by thieves
Who frolic about in the corridors of power 
How shall we escape 
From the lashes of history? 

'How can the captives be delivered from the mighty'? 
When engulfed by malodorous ambassadors 
Who like rodents eat up the...

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SOMEWHERE IN THE THICK DARK FOREST

Somewhere in the thick dark forest,
There, you'd find captives 
held against their will.

Hands bound, legs chained,
They lay on the hard ground, half unclad.
Dehydrated from thirst and hunger.

Separated from their families,
As many nights and day come and go,
Thought of their imminent...

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