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Best Traps Poems

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Premium Member Woman In Chains
Arousing opulence of ancient ballrooms
She creates her own make-believe world
Waltzing coyly in terpsichorean rhythms
Upon glittering stage where they sell love
Each time she caresses arms of...

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Categories: traps, betrayal, emotions, woman,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fate and Destiny
How mischievous those goddesses of fate
That bend our paths toward our destiny
They tempt us, setting traps, with diff'rent bait
Like fools, we complicate simplicity

Each turn we...

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Categories: traps, destiny, dream, fate,
Form: Sonnet
Categories: traps, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Soar Like a Butterfly
These thoughts of mine do not behold
Let them soar high like wings befold

Observe  them  come        ...

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Categories: traps, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member O' How Long and Well This Night's Dark Shadows Oft Play, Poet Dedication Series
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE-- Number One- (INSPIRED BY AND FROM HIS FROST AT MIDNIGHT POEM).

(1.)

O' How Long And Well This Night's Dark Shadows Oft Play,
Poet Dedication...

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Categories: traps, allusion, appreciation, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Truth Found, Recovery of a Broken Soul
Truth Found, Recovery Of A Broken Soul

1.
In nightmarish dreams he found such great dread
Of lost hope, life's decay, eyes of the dead.
Day's clear lights his...

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Categories: traps, art, deep, farm, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deafening Silence
Living in a realm where 
the air seems to 
be still as stone,
invisible, like a 
ghost of a rose, 
translucent and frozen in 
time of...

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Categories: traps, dream, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member At the Seat of the Catacombs of Amygdala
 
"At the Seat of the Catacombs of Amygdala"



 
"...the curse ruled from the underground down by the shore
And their hope grew with a hunger...

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Categories: traps, daughter, imagery, journey, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Police # 2
Many (con)-ARTIST are drinking more than the soup
A kidnapping of the mind
Confessions/conspiracy/rounded up in groups
Interrogation on a  prowler /who's words robbed us blind
Corrupting our...

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Categories: traps, dedicationwords, me, poets,
Form: Free verse
Fantastic Flora Masquerade
Creeping creepy creepers, the crawling trellis
jutting out of everywhere
snaking through country and metropolis
twisting turning in floral bliss
but more like snakes that hiss
But in quietude feign...

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Categories: traps, abuse, environment, flower, garden,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Luna's Eclipse
Luna, to the depths 
     of my fondest delight,
You are regally dressed 
     this beautiful night.
Your beaming...

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Categories: traps, moon,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member The Pirate's Lady
Crew of scoundrels, scalawags
Skulls and crossbones, on her flags
Hull held low by money bags
The fruitful Pirate's Lady

Upon her splintered deck they rove
Safely anchored, hidden cove
Her...

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© Joe Inka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traps, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let Your Children On Their Own
Maternal tears
Never managing to let go
Vicarious pleasure, vicarious pain
Wishing their life were easier
Wishing they could avoid the pitfalls
You see so clearly
The traps that seem so...

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Categories: traps, anxiety, children, confidence, desire,
Form: Free verse
Unforgiving
You think you know him
But you refuse to see
The artful way he abuses me
He captivates my mind
He traps my soul
He pins my arms to my...

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Categories: traps, girlfriend-boyfriend, nostalgia, heart, heart,
Form: Free verse
R.I.P
Nobodys home so dont knock apon the
door.
No need to empty the trash  or sweep 
the floor.

To many bottles of booze mixed with
pills.
Notes left apon...

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Categories: traps, angst, death, introspection
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things