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Cage Poems - Poems about Cage

Cage Poems - Examples of all types of poems about cage to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for cage.
Premium Member The Chinese Horoscope, Preserved
...“Dragons don’t live up to the talk. I’ll find a way to fix the wagon”, Opined the jealous Jabberwock, “Of the scaly, lummox dragon.” This foul fiend then, most inhumanely, Pausing to munch ......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, allegory, animal, humor,
Form: Rhyme



the last viking
...The Last Viking There had been a storm, that uprooted  an old oak that exposed a gave the grave of the last Viking, a rusty  sword beside him its grip was made  fallen stars, he had been a chief......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, adventure, deep,
Form: Blank verse
I Am Made Of Rotton Roots
...I am made of rotten roots flush with dead skeleton leaves when touched, crumble but moss grows on my rib-cage bones and mold covers my heart where there’s moisture so something mus......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, deep, depression, endurance, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Read Classic Fairy Tales
...Foolish girl, keep away from frustration and pain only concentrate on your books, happiness and future; so many girls think their thoughts are really mature; will they take them far in life? It's......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, anger, anxiety, conflict, dream,
Form: Lyric
Goodness and Grief
...Out of her cage. She was so sage. She knew it was her last day. She has become too tired to play. Spare some grief, let in the doubt. The door to this room is the only way out. An old towel is ......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, cat, loss,
Form: Rhyme



Free
...A bird in a cage in front of an open window Dreams of stretching its wings What we want the most is right in front of us yet always out of reach I tell myself that I could always run I want it so......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, break up, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Magritte The Empty Mask
...it's clouded obscured just enough variety to throw you off there's no such thing as a penetrating gaze no beyond nor here or there just this unc......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Turning the Spit
...At a history museum By the hearth there was a spit With a slatted-wood contraption By a rope attached to it. When we read the explanation We were totally surprised. The contraption was a cag......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, dog, history,
Form: Rhyme
Feel you
...I can feel you as if you were me I can feel it in the air I breathe The feeling of a crescendo reach out but nothings there panic slowly Bide time and wait in lay crawling the pavement P......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
ONCE UPON A TAMED
... Once upon a time a tamed was born free the tamed roamed in his home so free the tamed enjoyed every moment and soon he was considered too free, too free, to be born, too free to be strong, too......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, abuse, africa, anger,
Form: Elegy
CLEAN AIR
...CLEAN AIR Only a few now recall the London smogs The early Fifties, I think it may have been When a man used to walk ahead of a bus As schoolkids, it was a strange time for us Almost every day......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, age, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Greener on the Other Side of the Fence
... He wears thick gloves when he strings the barbed wire, fashioning a thorny fence from prickly metal spines, reminding me that cattle like to know the boundaries, the edges of a pasture, clever......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, animal, appreciation, endurance, green,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where's The Pink-Footed Goose
...Where's the pink-footed goose that evil-minded Warde tried to catch? Didn't the bird follow his shrieking horde? He was parched on the white oak over the small lake, On Monday he was startled by t......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, anxiety, bird, dark, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blame
...“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” ~ John Burroughs You say you love the moon but it’s the stars you gaze at, as you stretch your ......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, angst,
Form: Free verse
In the heart of the night, next to the unmoved clock
...In the heart of the night, next to the unmoved clock, She lies, with the pillow—a saline lake of pagan scents, Mourning something that was never spoken. Prisoner in the castle of shadows, where da......Read the rest...
Categories: cage, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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