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Captives Poems - Poems about Captives

The captives
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 sank the ship It was better to die Than be slaves...

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Categories: captives, africa, culture, death, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Captives of Love an Ode to Cocoa bean
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 the bliss beyond compare, A tangy heaven where our dreams survive. As...

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Categories: captives, fun,
Form: Ode



Somewhere In the Thick Dark Forest
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 freedom very bleak. The blood thirsty abductors, Show no mercy nor compassion As...

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Categories: captives, abuse, africa, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
Cry For Freedom
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 nation's trust. How shall we escape From the lashes of history?...

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Categories: captives, corruption, freedom, history, metaphor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Captives of the Calendar
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 never be done Freeing the captives of the calendars From the...

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Categories: captives, allegory, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Captives
Juan, Casanova Poetry in emotion artistry of Love...

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Categories: captives, eulogy, journey, love, passion,
Form: Haiku
Captives of a Longing Heart
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 to be set free, stirred by pain or sorrow or...

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Categories: captives, emotions,
Form: Prose
We'Re Captives
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 captives Sleep if you must, you’re probably ~ better off Believe the...

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Categories: captives, political,
Form: Free verse
Captives
V, Got jailed, At the civic centre!...

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Categories: captives, fun, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member December's Captives - For Contest
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 terrain. Midnight, muffled tone of distant bell devoured by the need for...

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Categories: captives, december,
Form: Free verse
Captives
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 burning sword! We see the stars sweep trailing skirts in explosive...

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Categories: captives, beauty, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Captives :My Spirit
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 our lives though justice and freedom was our stand Our...

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Categories: captives, abuse, baby,
Form: Quatrain
Captives
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 sailed away to be seen nevermore. It...

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Categories: captives, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Captives
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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Categories: captives, adventure
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Captives
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, no-no-not us. We call our song the soul’s vertebrate. And we refer...

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Categories: captives, son, song-lyric
Form: Free verse

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