Best Captivity Poems

Babe, I believed in you…
Honey, I listened to you…
I want you…
I want you back home…
Don’t fight with me…
Don’t abuse me
Don’t do it…don’t walk away…

Let me free my soul from captivity
Let me go! Let me go! Set me free and leave me be!
I am the luckiest...

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Deborah Johnson, Copyright 2018.


I can't be sure what she said, but as we were walking...

her bright' eyes were looking straight ahead.


 I looked at her, but I didn't say...'we can't do that anyway.'
 
I recalled where I stood; maybe she can, but I never could.

What...

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Memories of a dying bud, 
Felicitation for the hard sun, 
He still crawls the wall, 
Butterfly tormented with her wings burnt. 
Differences is an old man, 
Still walking our bloodied earth, 
He shoots himself everyday, 
A ceremony celebrated from his birth. 
Oh! how has he...

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There's no easy way to say this so I'll just be blunt.
Every evening at 8:30 I venture outdoors and I hunt.
I don't slaughter my prey. I just capture them you see,
and then I bring all my captives home with me.
I don't consume my prey. I...

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5/8/13
Spread out your wings
Come on, baby – it’s your time to fly today
Our misfortune stings
Pour forth your ecstasy – will it take away
Our despondency?

Bring me out of captivity…
Producing calamity…
I can’t reach for His light –  
THROW ME A ROPE!
I’m buried far below…
Midnight’s as dark...

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Bind my feet and tie my hands
In tiny little knots.
Seal my body to the earth,
But don’t constrain my thoughts....

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Ideal splendour
flames of emotions arise
desired and possessed.
Beauty in captivity
adoration blazing down.

August 2nd, 2018...

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You've got to be kidding me
I thought that this would set me free
But I find I'm only well
Deeper entangled in your spell
I should have know I can't escape
Your hold on me is just to great
Your claws dug are dug in deep
Holding my heart with metal...

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Shh! Here comes the Civilian general
My black-master to a black-master
On whom my boney back bent
On a twenty four hour daily chore.
Planting happiness on Masters vegetation mind
Reaping sorrows in my vegetable mind
Commands he always bark not shout
Where be this boy, this orphan, this ill-fed scoundrel?
Me and...

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A DIRGE TO A GREAT MAN IN CAPTIVITY

Like the morning sun you appeared in front of us with your glory
Like the satellite you outshone the stars while they talk of your story 
Your shoulder was a mountain which gave birth to springs to flow
Even the...

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I was captured at a young age
Heart filled with pain
Mind filled with rage.
I waited for a chance to break out
But too confused
Filled with fear, flooded with doubt.
After a few years I broke free
Only to be captured again
Locked up, indefinitely.
I never got to fly on my...

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In my despair,
With all my burdens I could not bear.
A Savior did appear,
I heard Him whisper in my ear.
You are My child,
No longer will you be reviled.
With tears streaming down my face,
No longer will I be a disgrace.
With just a word,
I heard.
With just a touch...

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I took it all for granted. The sky, the stars, the wind, 
the flowers, the grass, the trees.
I expected to see my friends every day, 
it was boring, dull, humdrum, if you please.
In my mediocre mind-set, I was walking to a friends’ house, 
not enjoying...

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I have embarked on a journey with Jesus
I do not envisage any failure
I am totally committed to Him
I am therefore in direct conflict with Satan
Jesus has purchased me with His precious blood
Therefore I am an alien in this world
On this journey He assured me there...

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Before the Wires and Towers dominated the sky,
cutting wounds in the Earth and air,
childish eyes would peek upwards,
towards heaven, beyond god,
towards the Eagle's stair

Even on the haunting winter nights,
The Eagle flew in palest moonlight,
free on the horizon, over the feilds of wheat
Bound to nothing exept...

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